No thumb drives for the US military. (found on David Bader’s page)
Supercomputing and mathematica
The last time I went to a “Supercomputing” conference, Jim Gray came by to talk to me and Cort about PowerPC Linux. That must have been in 2000 or 1999. We had gone by the AIX booth and been roundly
Dijkstra versus Perlis (updated)
Dijkstra wrote: He [Perlis] published a very obnoxious paper arguing against a mathematical approach to programming cite The paper by De Millo, Lipton and Perlis starts as follows: Many people have argued that computer programming should strive to become more like mathematics.
Most influential software company in America – and maybe the world
Voter Activation Network.
FSMLabs move to New Zealand is postponed indefinitely
Thanks to Ohioans. (and Virginians, Floridians, Iowans, … ). phew.
future of the data center
This article from Ars Technica discusses a talk over the summer by Merrill Lynch’s chief technology architect, Jeffrey Birnbaum on “stateless cloud computing” – most concretely on distributed file systems. Birnbaum believes that one of the key foundational elements of
Operating system research – 16 years perspective
(links and dates fixed March 15 2015 – thanks to Luu and pm90 at news.y.combinator for digging this up) October 2008: It’s somewhat funny and somewhat sad to read this thread on the old USENET. Starting out with Andy Tanenbaum’s proposed list
Avaya’s bizzare business model
Years ago, we got some equipment from Avaya – not terrible, but not wonderful. A junior tech with no signature authority signed a contract with them that says in big letters on the top “until 2005”. In 2007 we got
Reliable broadcast algorithms: after 20 years
New paper with short description of the Chang/Maxmchuk algorithm I have been championing for 20 years or more.
Investors and software patents
Talking to possible investors, smart people with a lot of business experience, is a reminder of how critical patents are to innovative small business. Every new idea attracts imitators and worse, and small companies, by definition, do not have the