Systems software technology and business
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 exit strategy is clamped shut, and with the shares of many big publicly traded tech companies [...]
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. Maybe it is time time integrate a database view into the file system, now that [...]
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 published a 124-page paper, “Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?â€, that catalogued different [...]