Last month Microsoft StreamInsight went public. This software provides a platform for developing and deploying complex event processing applications based on recognizing patterns and enabling an organization to act upon them. "Its high-throughput stream processing architecture and the familiar ...
In Computer magazine , there was a recent article Beyond Asimov: The Three Laws of Responsible Robotics. This article addressed a perspective I've always had - Robots will need to have significantly more "perceptual and reasoning capabilities" in order to even approach being able to follow...
There is an article in this month's Smithsonian magazine about robotics and the issues with what they can do, and the problems people have when robots look too human. This is a good article for those interested in robotics or in the numerous robotics projects currently taking place. The article also...
Anyone who has been working with IT for a while recognizes that there are pendulum-like shifts from centralized to distributed computing. The centralized approach is more orderly with greater hierarchical control. The distributed approach tries to be flexible and more efficient with time - at the cost...