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On the shoulders of genius

George Boole was born in Lincoln, England in 1815 and published The Calculus of Logic in 1848 - almost exactly 100 years after Euler's Introductio in analysin infinitorum Nothing in modern, science based, computing originated in either publication, but the two set in stone the roots of the research behind...

Tags: Enterprise software, George Boole, Neumann

Blog posts 2006-06-30

Additional Resources

Kickfire: MySQL data box for the rest of us

Given all the various technology news in the last two weeks, it would have been relatively easy to overlook a press release from a small startup called Kickfire, which produces an appliance to run MySQL applications. Snore. Yet another dime a dozen appliance vendor, which will probably...

Tags: Performance, MySQL, I/O, Kickfire, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-28

SC07 Day 2: Emerging hardware to force drastic changes in programming

"We live in interesting times." That was the message from Tim Mattson, a Principal Engineer at Intel during a tutorial Monday on advanced OpenMP programming. Other presenters at SC07 agreed: software development is much more difficult than it used to be, and it's only going to get worse. ...

Tags: Processor, I/O, Hardware, Programming, GPU, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Open source development is parallel processing in action

About 20 years ago engineers around the world began demonstrating what is still the greatest computer innovation of my lifetime, parallel processing. (For more on the concept, visit this course at the Cornell Theory Center, offered by Saleh Elmohamed.) Until then people were limited to computers based...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Google and IBM help students learn parallel programming

Google and IBM have announced a new initiative to help students and researchers learn how to create the massively parallel programs that will be needed to address large-scale problems of the future. The two companies are teaming up to provide hardware, software, developer tools, and services to support curricula created...

Tags: Software, Google Inc., Plug-in, Programming, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Open Source, Management, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-10-09

Singularity Summit 2007: Designing rational self-improving AI

I interviewed Steve Omohundro prior to the Singularity Summit 2007 about his notions of developing artificial general intelligences AGIs, but he went into far more detail about his views. He applies what he called "microeconomic rationality," from the work of John Von Neumann and others, to building intelligent, well meaning...

Tags: Memory, Resource, Bhutan, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

ah, so what's a billion, or two?

Heres something directly from one of my favourite sources of tragi-comedy, the risks digest: Software error reportedly contributed to sudden Dow-Jones drop Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:37:15 PST On 27 Feb 2007, the Chinese stock market experienced a 9% drop. This apparently...

Tags: Taxes, tax, Feb 2007, computer

Blog posts 2007-03-13

Cee? a Friday pop quiz!

Heres a challenge: which, if any, of the following five headline summaries taken from recent research reports is legitimate? and what do they have in common? From Physics.org: For the first time, scientists have experimentally demonstrated that sound pulses can travel at velocities faster than...

Tags: photon

Blog posts 2007-01-26

Crime on Paper

"Crime on-line", thats the cover age title of the ACM Queue (Vol 4, #9) that arrived in my mailbox last week. Theres crime there all right, but its on paper, specifically in the articles relating to on-line crime and e-voting. Not that there isnt something good in...

Tags: e-voting

Blog posts 2006-12-06

Google changing 'philosophy'

Google changing 'philosophy'How far will GOOGLE go to be disruptive in the marketplace?Providing free business applications for small business appears to be the start of something that could become very big.Will GOOGLE go sofar as to provide free applications for say Genereral Ledger where the advertising is displayed on the...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-02

The cost of a bicycle

In a talkback about the top ten technology trends in Unix today, contributor "Southernpride" talks despairingly about American debt to Chinese interests and thus backdoors in the whole out-sourcing, off-shoring, and related economic issues agenda. I don't agree with him on this; on the contrary I believe that...

Tags: AMERICAN, CHINESE, Southernpride

Blog posts 2006-05-26

Nick Carr on IE7, Google, and the DOJ

According to a report in the New York Times, Microsoft has been vindicated in its decision to make its MSN/Live Search the default in Internet Explorer by the Department of Justice. The DOJ and states monitoring Microsoft's practices following the monopoly decree have stated that the default setting is...

Tags: Google Inc., Nick Carr

Blog posts 2006-05-14

Haskell Is Not ML

This paper presents a typed calculus IL ("Intermediate Language") which supports the embedding of ML-like (strict, eager) and Haskell-like (non-strict, lazy) languages, without favoring either. IL's type system includes negation continuations, but not implication function arrow. Within IL the authors find that lifted sums and products can be represented as...

Tags: Springer Science+Business Media, Haskell, IL

White papers 2006-02-06

Sun's flawed utility vision

Sun's flawed utility visionHear, hear!Jolly good show! Your keen insight is evident as you cover this topic like a blanket. The old adage that hardware advances happen MUCH faster than software advances fits this model to a "T". Sun is a hardware vendor, and they are able to do all...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Utility computing, Network technology, software, Sun Microsystems Inc., hardware, bandwidth, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-08-25

Innovation in IT

Innovation in ITA great deal of activity but how much achieved?It may well be that there is a great deal of activity going on but how much of it is really innovative?Hardware is getting faster, that is agreed but I question whether this is really influencing software very much.The main...

Tags: Programming languages, Leadership, Databases, Strategy, information technology, SQL, relational model, innovation, software, software world

Discussion threads 2005-07-11

Millennium Performance Problems: Challenges for Performance Management in the 21st Century

This webcast identifies five very tough problem areas in performance management that need to be addressed. The problems identified are performance visualization, self-measuring applications, the von Neumann bottleneck, the Internet simulator, and quantum computers.

Tags: Performance, TeamQuest Corp., Performance Management, It Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It service Management

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