Published on: October 02 2009
Today 02 October is Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. It was nice to see the Google home page honouring Gandhi ji.
It was otherwise a normal day at GHC 09 with a very enthusiastic and energetic crowd of computer engineers. There was a fantastic keynote presentation by Fran Berman, Vice President for Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, called “Creating Technology for Social Good, A Prologue”.
Dr. Berman focused on the future of the information age and how we are going to keep and archive current information. We need to archive the information because “access tomorrow starts with preservation today.” Along with what …
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Published on: October 01 2009
Before the keynote, we got to watch a video “I am a Technical Women”.
It is heartening to see so many technical woman who are proud to be geeks! The hope is that the video will help inspire girls and women everywhere with the wonderful diversity of technical women. This video celebrates everything that is wonderful about women. It changes the image of technology by showing the world that women from all over the world belong in technical fields.
Megan Smith, VP at Google.org started her keynote presentation by telling us about the MIT admission question that she had to answer when …
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Published on: September 30 2009
I am at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2009 at Tuscon, Arizona. This is my fourth time at this conference and I hope to be able to come back to more. There are enthusiastic and energetic crowd of 1,600 technical women in industry, faculty, and students from 22 countries!
Few people, in the recent past, seem to know about Grace Hopper. Admiral Grace Hopper was one of the pioneer Computer programmers in 1940’s. You can read more about her in the Biography of Naval History. Grace Hopper popularized the term “bug” as applied to computers and it was …
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Published on: September 03 2009
I was waiting to hear the outcome of the European Commission decision today. Will they approve proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by the software company Oracle? It was disappointing to read this in The NY Times. The European Commission has decided to take at least three months (Jan 19) to decide the next steps.
I am hoping that the approval goes through sooner than the 3 months!
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Published on: June 01 2009
We had a wonderful Open HA Cluster Summit at the Marriott Hotel yesterday 31st May, 2009. Dr. David Cheriton gave a very interesting keynote address. We had about 170 registrants though I believe there were about 135 participants at the keynote address. Irene Israel, Jatin Jhala and others did an amazing job of putting this conference together. It was heartening to see interested engineers show up and attend the session on a Sunday! It was nice to meet members of our very active community Marcelo Leal and Piotr Jasiukajtis.
Today we announced the release of High Availability Cluster software for OpenSolaris …
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