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Rational RFE Community update
   
Check out this group discussion on the Rational RFE Community - lessons learned, user feedback, enhancements to come. Participants include Erin O'Conner, an IBM Rational Project Manager, John Muller, Design Lead for the Rational RFE Community, David Salinas, developerworks project lead for Rational RFE, and Mark Ingebretson, who employs Rational solutions within IBM.
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Oct 07 2008, 01:00:00 PM EDT
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190 million dollar hard drive
A friend sent me a .jpg of an old hard disk ad from the early 1980s. I love the headline -- The Hard Disk You've Been Waiting For! $3998 / 10 MB.
Of course, it very well may have been the result of someone having some photoshop fun. But it is facinating how the price of storage has dropped in such a relatively short amount of time. This site on the history of storage pricing is interesting. According to them, the company XCOMP was making hard drives for about $190 per megabyte in 1983. By that pricing, without adjustment for inflation (which there has been an awful lot of since 1983), the new 1 terabyte firewire drive I just bought would go for 190 million dollars today instead of the 500 it sells at.
There are some great photos on the Computer History Museum website, like this one of the first portable computer. Check out that spacious display.
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Oct 06 2008, 12:18:37 PM EDT
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Sean Poulley on globalizing business reach with collaboration technologies
Sean Poulley, vice president of IBM's online collaboration services, talks about obstacles that small and medium sized businesses face in working to globalize their reach and how collaboration technologies can help.
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Sep 23 2008, 05:00:00 PM EDT
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Doug Lenat on Cyc, a truly semantic web, and A.I.
Doug Lenat is a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence and founder of the CYC project. The Cyc Knowledge Server is a very large, multi-contextual knowledge base and inference engine developed by Cycorp. The Cycorp website explains the goal of Cyc as breaking "the 'software brittleness bottleneck' once and for all by constructing a foundation of basic "common sense" knowledge--a semantic substratum of terms, rules, and relations--that will enable a variety of knowledge-intensive products and services. Cyc is intended to provide a "deep" layer of understanding that can be used by other programs to make them more flexible."
Doug talks about where Cycorp is in pursuit of that goal, and about what he calls a truly sematic web.
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: [ artificial-intelligence | datamanagament | sematicweb ]
Sep 16 2008, 04:10:00 PM EDT
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BREAKING NEWS! Developer lost in space
A developerWorks Special Report podcast -- LOST IN SPACE: Astronaut Fong's struggle to reconnect with his team.
If you're following the story here, then you'll know that this news exclusive is a big deal. Getting this interview with Fong across the emptiness of space was no walk in the park with my copper phone line. Thankfully, the IBM conference call system works up to and including the Pluto formerly known as a planet.
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Sep 16 2008, 11:00:00 AM EDT
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Common Sense and the Mind of HAL
Check of this transcript of a very interesting talk given by Doug Lenat, a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence and the founder of Cycorp. Look for my interview with Doug in a podcast segment coming up next week.
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Sep 01 2008, 07:00:00 PM EDT
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