His father's company is still evaluating Windows 7, but Xavier Dominicis, 11, says if her were CIO he'd give the OS the go-ahead.
The RSA Conference is wrapping up, and it was a much more upbeat experience than the past couple of years. Exhibitors were happy with the booth traffic, many interviewed executives reported sizable year-over-year revenue gains, and most were optimistic about prospects for the balance of 2010. A by-product of the ugly 2009 business climate is that innovation – something I had given up on ever seeing again – has returned to the security industry.
Researches are using machine learning algorithms and high-end computers to extract meaning from 500 million Web pages.
The other day I went out to dinner with my wife and eldest son. While we were waiting for our food to arrive, our son asked us what we thought the current greatest technological achievement is; specifically, a technology that we never would have imagined as kids. My answer was simple, the Internet. A worldwide network of interconnected computers where information could be shared had no doubt changed the world in much the same way the industrial revolution did two hundred years earlier.
It is fairly easy to detect many attacks within traffic patterns in a corporate network, but exceptionally difficult to figure out what to do about it. It is good security practice to conduct focused investigations whenever there is a distortion in international web-oriented traffic, such as an increase in web site traffic from a nation like China.
Unless technologists inform the debate, a lack of privacy regulations in the U.S. could lead to a backlash that negatively affects scientific research on that data for the greater social good.
Mobiles phones, the Web and other technologies are gathering unprecedented torrents of personal information on individuals. Scientists want to mine that data for the social good. The private sector wants to exploit it for profit. But will a lack of regulation and abusive practices by the few ruin the party for everyone?
The Environmental Systems Research Institute's flagship ArcGIS Server platform will be available as a cloud service this summer.
Last weekend, I went with my wife and kids to see Avatar. (I was amazed at how realistic animation has become. My guess is that they won't need actors and actresses one day. They'll just "roll out" the characters they want.) We arrived early and while we were waiting, I looked around the theater, which was filling up quickly.
