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RSS historyWhy I'm planning a change of career
Comment Today I can look back at episodes of the industry's history with real nostalgia: the start of a small company called Novell (UK) in London's Regent Street or when I shared a Boston taxi with a chap named Ray Ozzie, who... [17 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a nation gives to its computing heritage following the mothballing of the Museum of Computing in Swindon.silicon.com asked a number of CIOs whether the UK made the most of its... [15 Jul 2008]
Seagate unleashes 1.5TB desktop
News The Barracuda 7200 1.5TB drive is aimed at the desktop market and the half-a-terabyte jump in capacity from 1TB marks "the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives",... [15 Jul 2008]
My 15 minutes with Bill Gates
Comment The rest, as they say, is history, and it belonged as much to Gates' vision of a multimedia PC as anything else. Greenbaum thought he had the best of the encounter. Nothing could have been further from the truth. [11 Jul 2008]
Gov't to ramp up IT outsourcing?
News A government pledge to outsource more IT contracts ignores a history of blown budgets and missed deadlines, unions claim. Secretary of State for Business John Hutton promised a "long-term commitment to open up public... [11 Jul 2008]
Packet Buffer Management for a High-Speed Network Interface Card
White Paper This paper, therefore, propose a history-based buffer management scheme to address the issue. This experiment's results show that the history-based scheme reduces packet loss by 11% to 15.9% as compared... [11 Jul 2008]
Fingerprinting: Bounding Soft-Error Detection Latency and Bandwidth
White Paper Fingerprinting summarizes a processor's execution history in a hash-based signature; differences between two mirrored processors are exposed by comparing their fingerprints. Recent studies have suggested that the... [11 Jul 2008]
White Paper: Tips for Writing Good Use Cases
White Paper In this IBM Rational white paper "Tips for writing good use cases," IBM requirements evangelist Jim Heumann explores the history and function of the use case, then provides a set of tips to help teams incorporate best... [10 Jul 2008]
Computer System Intrusion Detection: A Survey
White Paper This paper reviews the history of research in intrusion detection as performed in software in the context of operating systems for a single computer, a distributed system, or a network of computers. The ability to detect... [09 Jul 2008]
Cisco Systems Case Study: Procter & Gamble
White Paper Procter & Gamble has a long history of innovation, courage, and an ability to make smart business decisions even in difficult times. To speed products to market, Procter & Gamble (P&G) faces a supply chain challenge, the... [09 Jul 2008]
Studying Cooperation and Conflict Between Authors With History Flow Visualizations
White Paper First, it introduces a new exploratory data analysis tool, the history flow visualization, which is effective in revealing patterns within the wiki context and which is believed will be useful in other collaborative... [09 Jul 2008]
"Readness" - A Design Exploration of Personal Document Management in Historical and Collaborative Context
White Paper This paper explores designs that expand this binary distinction into a continuum of "Readness," based on the user's personal history and collaborative context. When faced with many documents, people often use systems... [09 Jul 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Is there really a skills crisis?
Comment I was persuaded that any book that could be described as literature would be dull and wondered what could be the use of history and geography. Confused IT skills policies in schools and colleges are part of the problem. [09 Jul 2008]
The Next Generation of Static Analysis: Boolean Satisfiability and Path Simulation - A Perfect Match
White Paper This white paper provides a brief overview of the history of static analysis and explains how the use of Boolean Satisfiability is enabling developers to improve the quality and security of their code by identifying a... [09 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment The 1998 launch party for silicon.com was held at the dinosaur hall of the Natural History Museum in west London. John Bernstein - silcon.com editor 1997 - 2002: "We chose the Dinosaur Room of the Natural... [07 Jul 2008]
