GT Advanced declared bankruptcy and blamed Apple for its problems. Apple called GT Advanced’s story “defamatory”. I have no idea about the specifics in this
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Telecom is 10 years behind wall street on time synchronization
This is an interesting paper, but Telecom has not yet come to grips with the problems and advantages of fast shared commodity ethernet interconnect. North
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Accurate and reliable knowledge of time is fundamental to cyber-physical systems for sensing, control, performance, and energy efficient integration of computing and communications. This simple
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This is a post about CS education. It is prompted by a seriesofposts by Mark Guzdial in which he criticizes the pervasive belief among CS
Read moreJP Morgan Security Breach
“Faced with the rising threat of online crime, JPMorgan has said it plans to spend $250 million on digital security annually, but had been losing
Read morePaths versus Recursion
/* * Iterative DepthFirst file list (c) Victor Yodaiken 2013 * * “Not the way we do it in Brooklyn” – Dave “Kinch” Arnow. *
Read moreWhat happens when you do not use enterprise quality technology.
News from last year. Aug. 26, 2013 11:52 a.m. ET A glitch in time synchronization caused German exchange operator Deutsche BoerseAG DB1.XE -0.16% ‘s Eurex
Read moreFischer Lynch Patterson and timeouts
There is a widely cited (over 1400 cites in CiteseerX ) result called the Fischer-Lynch-Patterson theorem about consensus – a key issue in distributed databases or
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Distributed transactions have historically been implemented by the database community in the manner pioneered by the architects of System R* [22] in the 1980s. The primary mechanism
Read morePatents considered harmful, by some.
@vyodaiken This makes no sense. You don’t foster competition by handing out monopolies. — Timothy B. Lee (@binarybits) September 16, 2014 That’s not how it
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