Monthly Archives: December 2008

The coming bust in venture cap

Posted on December 27, 2008 by admin

According to Forbes (thanks to Trevor Loy for the link) The venture capital industry is staring at the most vicious shakeout in its history. Returns are pathetic for most funds, the public offering pipeline on which venture depends for its … Continue reading →

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Apple’s spotlight and future databases

Posted on December 15, 2008 by admin

The UNIX idea that the OS treated files as sequences of uninterpreted bytes was a brilliant technical simplification – so successful that the previously dominant approach essentially disappeared. Apple seems to want to revist the issue with its spotlight product.  … Continue reading →

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the male weirdness of computer science

Posted on December 3, 2008 by admin

ELLEN SPERTUS, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female? She … Continue reading →

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