by Leroy Hurt | Nov 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via McKinsey Quarterly: …a broad swath of employment remained largely untouched: work requiring extensive human interactions. Among these positions are the jobs held by knowledge workers—the doctors, engineers, lawyers, managers, sales representatives, teachers, and...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via CIO: “The role of the CIO is going to vanish in the next few years,” says Yuvi Kochar, chief technology officer for the Washington Post Co. “We really need to change because no one is satisfied with IT; the business is frustrated.” “The traditional role of the CIO...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Military and Aerospace Electronics: …demand for small-form-factor embedded computing continues to increase, driven by size- and weight-constrained aerospace and defense applications like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), wearable...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via e-Week: IBM’s Sequoia supercomputer in June became the first U.S.-based system to reach No. 1 on the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Six months later, the system—at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory—was moved to No. 2, displaced by...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Baseline: …corporate data theft reached 855 incidents and 174 million compromised records over the last year. “Mainline cyber-criminals are achieving ‘economies of scale’ by automating and streamlining highly repetitive—but quick and...
