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This is all very old school – 1988! – but it’s always refresing to take another look at the basics. While a survey paper from U. Florida says that the concept can be traced to Ivan Sutherland auctioning timesharing slots in 1968, the likely origin of the term “agoric systems” (from the greek agora, or […]
Jon Udell wrote in Infoworld this week: In the end, scalability isn’t an inherent property of programming languages, application servers, or even databases. It arises from the artful combination of ingredients into an effective solution. There’s no single recipe. No matter how mighty your database, for example, it can become a bottleneck when used inappropriately. […]
Information Week: Sometime in the next few weeks, Amazon.com is scheduled to release Amazon Web Services 4.0, the next version of the electronic retailer’s toolset for developing applications that tie into its Web site. It’s the next step in Amazon’s strategy is to create a “programmable” Web site. Over the past two years, 50,000 developers […]
Alorie Gilbert of CNET writes: in August 1994, online retailing was on the cusp of a breakthrough. Advances in Web security that year started the trickle that has become a significant chunk of the economy. But that didn’t “solve” the problem of transaction security. Many data security battles are still being fought, against such foes […]
There’s a lot of great things going on with the continuing evolution of Interplanetary IP into IETF’s Delay-Tolerant Networking group into a DARPA BAA on Disruption-Tolerant Networking (already closed on 9 July, unfortunately). Proposers Day Announcement – Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) The Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) Program will develop and field technology that will provide […]
Toyota Manages Quick Recovery from Fire Wall Street Journal 8 May 1997 Page A-1 by Valerie Reitman staff reporter Toyota Motor Shows Its Mettle After Fire Destroys Parts Plant KARIYA, Japan — No one knows what sparked the fire that roared through Aisin Seiki Co.’s Factory No. 1 here before dawn on Saturday, Feb. 1, […]
From the August 9 issue of Newsweek: When Anne Perlman, 50, needs to see her doctor at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) in California, she schedules her appointment online. Prescriptions zip through the ether from her physician to her pharmacy. Test results go into her electronic medical records. (Once she even got a lab […]
Everyone mentions “RFID” and “Wal-Mart” in the same breath. For the record, Target met with its suppliers to start the process on its first RFID pilots as well. Requirements identified to date include applying RFID tags to cartons and pallets shipped to regional distribution centers and using 96-bit tags based on EPCglobal standards. An EPCglobal […]
The 14th International World Wide Web Conference 2005 May ’05, paper deadline of 11/28 SIGSOFT 2004 / FSE-12 Workshop in Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research (WISER) SIGSOFT 2004/FSE-12 Home Page Oct 31 – Nov 5 2004 Workshop on Self-Managing Systems (WOSS04) Home Page An increasingly important requirement for software-based systems is the ability to adapt themselves […]
Decentralized Intelligence – What Toyota can teach the 9/11 commission about intelligence gathering. By Duncan Watts I found this a captivating read, though it’s about risk management and problem solving, not decentralization of power per se. The vivid lessons excerpted in the full entry are a reminder that complete risk analysis is impossible, so the […]