Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93
By Katie Hafner, The New York Times Fernando Corbató, whose work on computer time-sharing in the 1960s helped pave the way for …
What’s the Difference Between ESP and CEP?
by David Luckham June 12th 2019 Some of you may be wondering why there are two flavors of event processing, event stream processing …
Software Upgrade (After 40 Years) Aims to Improve U.S. Weather Forecasts
by Henry Fountain, NYT Aiming to reduce errors like the one it made in 2012, when it wrongly forecast the track of …
Eight Trends in Event Stream Processing May 2019
1 May 2019 W. Roy Schulte This article represents the author’s personal opinion, not necessarily that of Gartner Inc. or any other …
Tech Giant Brings Software to a Gun Fight
by Jay Greene, The Washington Post Salesforce.com is pressuring sporting-goods retailers and other customers of its business-management and e-commerce software to stop …
Amazon Unveils Hybrid Drone for Deliveries
by Alan Levin, Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. has unveiled a revolutionary new drone — part helicopter and part science-fiction aircraft — that the …
Bringing Human-Like Reasoning to Driverless Car Navigation
by Rob Matheson, MIT News With aims of bringing more human-like reasoning to autonomous vehicles, MIT researchers have created a system that …
FAA Certifies Google’s Wing Drone Delivery Company to Operate as Airline
by Bill Chappell, NPR Online The Federal Aviation Administration has certified Alphabet’s Wing Aviation to operate as an airline, in a first …
The Images That Could Help Rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral
by Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic The work of Vassar College’s Andrew Tallon could help restore Paris’ fire-damaged Notre-Dame Cathedral, thanks to …
A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments
by Mark Mazzetti and Adam Goldman, NYT The Saudi government’s reliance on a firm from Israel, an adversary for decades, offers a …