2007-02-20

About: Thinking on the Web

H. P. Alesso and C. F. Smith, Thinking on the Web: Berners-Lee, Goedel and Turing. Wiley-Interscience, 2006

2007-02-19

How GPUs Work (according to Nvidia)


David Luebke, Greg Humphreys, "How GPUs Work," Computer, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 96-100, Feb., 2007.

The rendering is of Adrianne Curry. Should I know who she is?

Software Development: What's the Problem?

Raghavendra Rao Loka, "Software Development: What Is the Problem?," Computer, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 112, 110-111, Feb., 2007.

Managing Email Overload

David Schuff, Ozgur Turetken, John D'Arcy, David Croson, "Managing E-Mail Overload: Solutions and Future Challenges," Computer, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 31-36, Feb., 2007.

Cisco loves spam

Well, not exactly. Let's just say they see $$$ in it, as reflected in their $830M acquisition of IronPort, a maker of mail-filtering appliances. IronPort itself had just purchased PostX, a feature to encrypt outbound email in November 2006.

Coldhearted Worms: IM Security Appliances Reviewed

NWC Article at Citeulike.org.

2007-02-18

Blu-Ray Player

Best Buy is selling the Sony Blu-Ray player for $1000. Is it better to get Blue-Ray in the PS3 or laptop platforms instead?