The cross coupled latch is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century State machine models of timing and circuit design
Read morePublic spirit of programmers
It’s sad to note that while Doctors/engineers/journalists/even-lawyers without borders are all organizations of people who help less developed nations, “programmers/software/etc” without borders refers to outsourcing.
Read moreBias in academic reviewing
EURYI applications were first submitted to the relevant national research councils, who could nominate a specific number of candidates. This selection cut the proportion of
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Computer Science as a failed discipline
(from 2010) I write an email to a CS Prof. asking if they have any followup work on some nice OS measurement research they published
Read moreSecurity for dummies – a lesson for smart grid
WASHINGTON — Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they
Read moreFake Steve Jobs: “Then I hung up”
I stopped, then. There was nothing on the line. Silence. I said, Randall? He goes, Yeah, I’m here. I said, Does any of that make
Read moreGreen energy and smart devices
We’re starting to see a confluence between IT and energy that will change both industries. A windmill power data center is an interesting data point.
Read morethe elusive open source business model
In some cases, dominant technology companies have used open-source projects as pawns. Google, for example, has needled Microsoft by providing financial support to the nonprofit
Read moremulticore and multiprocessor performance
Here’s two interesting tables Percentage of lock acquisitions for global TCP/IP locks that do not succeed immediately. OS Type 6 conns 192 conns 16384 conns
Read moreThe ridiculous GPL-only tagging of Linux
Imagine that you release software under a license that is primarily concerned with making sure that modifiable source code is available to all and that
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