The Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) Program will develop and field technology that will provide network services when no end-to-end path exists through the network. The primary goal is to provide disruption tolerance by organizing information flow into bundles. These bundles will be routed through an ?intelligent? DTN network that can manage the delivery of the bundles. This method will allow messages to pass through the network with successive responsibilities, rather than the traditional end-to-end acknowledgement scheme. DTN will result in the opportunistically leveraged connectivity and the use of multiple routes while relieving the delivery node of final acknowledgement.
The second goal of DTN is to provide dynamic network naming and routing. This method uses a late-binding of bundles (or packets) technique to specific nodes or delivery path. This avoids forcing all parts of the network to be aware of all other parts of the network. The result will be a network that matches the tactical unit deployment needs for mobility and stealth.
The Proposers’ Day Workshop will be held on 21 January 2004 at the George Mason University
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, leveling the huge auto-parts plant. But one thing is clear: The crisis-control efforts that followed it dramatically illustrate one reason Toyota Motor Corp. is among the world’s most admired and feared manufacturers. Read more
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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 test back on a Sunday—”very cool,” she says.) And Perlman can log on any time to take stock of her health: Did her cholesterol go down this year? When was her last tetanus shot? For Perlman, the business of medicine is … get this … “a pleasurable experience.”
If you’re one of the millions of Americans still in the medical dark ages, take heart: e-medicine may be coming your way soon. In July, the government launched a bold plan to get doctors and patients wired over the next 10 years. To encourage participation, officials are looking for ways to reduce costs and ensure software compatibility nationwide. The goal: a vast electronic network, where records can be securely viewed by any doctor or ER you visit. There’s more at stake than convenience. Electronic medical records could save $140 billion annually and slash medical errors, which contribute to tens of thousands of deaths a year. “It’s the right thing to do, it’s the right time,” says Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. “We have to transform the practice of medicine.”
Paperless medicine means you’ll be able to go from your GP to your cardiologist—or to a new doc-tor in another state—without having to cart around old records. Your physician, privy to your complete history, will no longer need to rely on you for medical details; you may just walk away with a more accurate diagnosis. Computers will send reminders about vaccines or alerts about dangerous drug interactions. Electronic prescriptions will reduce errors caused by bad handwriting. And for non-urgent matters, you and your doctor will be able to communicate through a secure messaging system, saving time and a lot of frustration.
Electronic medicine won’t happen overnight, but you can start managing your health today. Begin by asking your doctors for a copy of your medical records. Web sites like WebMD offer programs where you can store and organize information (healthmanager.webmd.com). And electronic gizmos, such as Med-InfoChip, allow you to download your medical profile onto a computerized key chain (med-infochip.com). But keep in mind that federal law, which protects the privacy of electronic records in doctors’ offices and hospitals, doesn’t apply to private companies. Read online policies carefully: the company could share your personal health information with a third party. Even if a site looks secure, buyer beware: “A commercial dot-com can promise you privacy, but what if somebody buys it or it goes bankrupt?” says Dr. Paul Tang, who launched PAMF’s electronic system. “Your privacy is more protected by your physician.”
The buzz around the National Healthcare Information Infrastructure is starting to feel like the buzz around the National Information Infrastructure initiatives from ten years ago…
An increasingly important requirement for software-based systems is the ability to adapt themselves at run time to handle such things as resource variability, changing user needs, and system faults. In the past, systems that supported self-management were rare, confined mostly to domains like telecommunications switches or deep space control software, where taking a system down for upgrades was not an option, and where human intervention was not always feasible. However, today more and more systems have this requirement, including e-commerce systems and mobile embedded systems.
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 only sure strategy is containment.
We don’t do that often enough in software — tracing how errors propagate as ever-longer chains of legacy software are automated together… Read more
Interplanetary IP -> Disruption-Tolerant Networking
Event Driven ArchitecturesThere’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 network services when no end-to-end path exists through the network. The primary goal is to provide disruption tolerance by organizing information flow into bundles. These bundles will be routed through an ?intelligent? DTN network that can manage the delivery of the bundles. This method will allow messages to pass through the network with successive responsibilities, rather than the traditional end-to-end acknowledgement scheme. DTN will result in the opportunistically leveraged connectivity and the use of multiple routes while relieving the delivery node of final acknowledgement.
The second goal of DTN is to provide dynamic network naming and routing. This method uses a late-binding of bundles (or packets) technique to specific nodes or delivery path. This avoids forcing all parts of the network to be aware of all other parts of the network. The result will be a network that matches the tactical unit deployment needs for mobility and stealth.
The Proposers’ Day Workshop will be held on 21 January 2004 at the George Mason University
More on that Toyota fire
Decentralization, SecurityToyota 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, leveling the huge auto-parts plant. But one thing is clear: The crisis-control efforts that followed it dramatically illustrate one reason Toyota Motor Corp. is among the world’s most admired and feared manufacturers.
Read more
Get Ready For e-Medicine
Health CareFrom the August 9 issue of Newsweek:
The buzz around the National Healthcare Information Infrastructure is starting to feel like the buzz around the National Information Infrastructure initiatives from ten years ago…
Some conferences to keep track of…
Event Driven ArchitecturesThe 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 at run time to handle such things as resource variability, changing user needs, and system faults. In the past, systems that supported self-management were rare, confined mostly to domains like telecommunications switches or deep space control software, where taking a system down for upgrades was not an option, and where human intervention was not always feasible. However, today more and more systems have this requirement, including e-commerce systems and mobile embedded systems.
Slate on ‘Decentralized Intelligence’
Decentralization, SecurityDecentralized 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 only sure strategy is containment.
We don’t do that often enough in software — tracing how errors propagate as ever-longer chains of legacy software are automated together…
Read more