Month: September 2003

FBI: Under the Gun

Darwin John had established himself as a bit of a miracle worker before being asked to lead an information- systems renaissance at the Federal Bureau

A Letter to President Bush

Dear President Bush: You probably don’t know Joel Phagoo. He is a 21-year-old college student who decided to go fishing in New York’s Jamaica Bay

Quashing a Bug Before It Alights

Security is again blowing a hole into Microsoft’s relationships with its customers—both individual and corporate. The Blaster worm and its siblings took down many corporate

The Future Demands Your Flexibility

I was in charge of technology at Conoco when PCs first came out—and PCs weren’t very good. But they enabled technology to proliferate much faster

Primer: 64-Bit Processing

This isn’t new. No, it’s not. Digital Equipment Corp. came out with the first 64-bit processor, the Alpha, in 1992, and Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun

Quiz: Which Processor Do I Need?

1. We can easily compile and optimize the application we want to deploy for 64-bit processing. TRUE FALSE 1. 2. 2. Others have used this

The Player Roster

Oakland Ray Boyle General Manager, Maritime Operations, Port of Oakland Sept. 11 put Boyle in charge of security. A 30-year veteran of the port, nobody

Port Security: Required Reading

Here are links to key reports, white papers and other research on homeland security and how marine terminals play a key role. Brookings Institution: “Protecting