Outsourcing in India
Guest Editorial: The Internet and Outsourcing.ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 7, No. 3, Article 13, Publication date: August 2007.
Definitions: (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki)
1.Outsourcing is subcontracting a process, to make more efficient use of labor, capital, technology and resources.
2.Telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other.
3.Real time systems, which respond to events or signals as fast as possible. (Note: examples are flight controllers, Logic simulators which simulate the operation of a digital circuit and virtual reality).
The Internet is one of the drivers of offshoring professional services (outsourcing). From this need, experienced technical improvements at the foreign locations are made. To-date, it is considered a synergistic mutually-beneficial relationship.
At MIT Sloan School of Management in the spring 2004, the following articles were reviewed:
1.“24-Hour Knowledge Factory: Using Internet Technology to Leverage Spatial and Temporal Seperations” by Amar Gupta and Satwik Seshasau states that full time shifts will reduce development costs and times.
2.“The Internet's Role in Offshored Services: a Case Study of India” by Rafiq Dossani and Nathan Denny describes entrepreneurship and self-reliance emerged from India due to new revenues from the out-of-date (30 year old) hardware systems. Also, nationwide firms, jump-started in India, raised the average level need of technology.
3.“Impact of Internet- Based Distributed Monitoring Systems on Off-Shore Sourcing of Services” by Ravi Aron, Siddarth Jayanty and Praveen Pathak, reviews Internet monitoring systems has promoted technologies which were previously thought too risky or complex like real-time processes.
4.“Preserving Data Privacy in Outsoucing Data Aggregation Services” by Li Xiong, Subramanyam Chitti and Ling Liu looks at the compilation of information from detailed databases on individuals and selling that information to others. This has resulted in the compromised personally identifiable information which resulted in identity theft. There is a call for more strategies in data privacy.
-Evelyn
Labels: data aggregation, Outsourcing, real-time
From Palmtops to Brain Cells
Mar 6th 2008 From The Economist print edition
"Jeff Hawkins, best known as the creator of the Palm Pilot, hopes his new theory will lead to more brain-like computer software."
Hawkins states that the brain processes information using pattern recognition
‘nodes’ arranged like an organizational chart of employees of a large company.
Over time, nodes at each level identify and learn frequently observed patterns. It sends a signal to the next level up in the hierarchy. As multiple signals move up the hierarchy,higher nodes identify and predict more complex patterns.
He hopes to form the basis for software "thinking" applicable in robotics, computer vision, data analysis and video games.
Labels: "Jeff Hawkins" pattern-recognition thinking
Can We Fix the Web? (Kerne, SM)
Can We Fix The Web?
March 20, 2008. By Sean Michael Kerne"The problem with the modern Web is that it's insecure."
According to Kerne, web security problems are based in JavaScript, DOM (document object model) and Cookies. The problem is HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML are nested inside of each other. If a script is from two or more sources it is not secure.
1) JavaScript's global object is the root cause of all Cross Site Scripting attacks.
2) DOM dynamically changes the appearance of Web pages after they have been downloaded to a user's browser.
3) Cookies expose the site to cross site forgery requests.
Google is working on Caja and Cajita.
The creator of JSON--JavaScript Object Notation, Douglas Crockford said we need to replace JavaScript and HTML with a secure language. HTML 5 isn't a solution.
-evelyn
Labels: Kerne Web security
2015 Computers
"Hello, gorgeous! Meet the laptop you'll use in 2015" Computerworld (03/26/08) Nadel, Brian.
The Solar Laptop Concept has an extra hinged lid covered with solar cells that can be adjusted to get the most out of the sun.
The Canova device has two touch-sensitive screens---the upper screen is primarily for viewing applications, the lower screen is for typing, drawing and jotting notes. Lying flat, it can be used for large working spaces as a sketch pad. Folded in half and rotated 90 degrees, it's an e-book.
The Siafu concept notebook can be used for reading a Braille newspaper, feeling the shape of someone's face or going over a tactile representation of a blueprint.
The Cario concept notebook from Anna Lopez can be carried around by its handle, positioned like an easel or placed on a car's steering wheel. When the car's not in motion, it will project maps and video conferences onto the car's windshield.
-evelyn
Labels: laptop solar canova cario
