Author: Tom Steinert Threlkeld

Amtrak: Runaway Train

“Everything depends on I.T.,” says Robert D. Galey, chief information officer of Amtrak, the national passenger railroad system. But not everyone. Amtrak’s president, David Gunn,

Why You Will Come to Love Dead Zones

For the first 20 years of cellular communications, mobile handset users have complained about dead zones, and keep switching services to get reliable connections. In

What Is Your System for Finding People?

There’s one thing that executives who run information system projects often forget they’re in charge of. Information. It’s so easy—and fascinating—to get caught up in

Sonic Boom

CHICAGO–The Concorde is dead. Long live supersonic transport.The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Aviation and Aerospace Administration are testing new aircraft designs