Computer Software

Computer Orchestration Tips and Tricks--New from PC Publishing: A ...

Sebastopol, CA—Using modern technology, composers no longer need to wait until an orchestra plays their score to hear what their music will actually sound like. Using a computer and suitable software, it's possible for anyone to produce high...

[Publish Date: May 27, 2009]

Speaker: Raffi Krikorian: Where 2.0 Conference 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Raffi Krikorian makes a career of hacking everything and anything. He is currently a developer on Twitter Geo Platform. He was the founding partner at Synthesis Studios: a technological design and consulting firm that orchestrates his disjointed train of thought. He has developed Java-based distributed/mobile software agent infrastructures while also investigating human perception of sound in zero-g with NASA. While at the MIT Media Lab, he studied and built tiny, embedded, and sub-$5 Internet nodes and while also teaching students "How to Make (Almost) Anything." In his free time, he justified his television addiction by writing "TiVo Hacks" for O'Reilly and Associates, the first book on hacking into, understanding, and extending the Linux-based PVR. Raffi is an engineer with a passion to make the complicated, accessible - currently, he is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program where he teaches topics ranging from digital ethics and...

[Publish Date: March 30, 2010]

Speaker: Matt Jacobson: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference ...

Matt leads the conception, filtering and execution of Connotate’s services efforts for all clients and prospects. With over twenty years of high tech industry experience, and executive roles in two, Fast 500 companies, Matt has a wealth of knowledge regarding the technology and business life cycles. His experience includes leading software product businesses, consulting businesses, R&D; organizations, customer support and instituting project management best practices. Prior to starting his career at AT&T; Bell Laboratories, Matt received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors from the Pennsylvania State University and a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.

[Publish Date: February 22, 2010]

David Pogue's iPhone: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition--New from O'Reilly: ...

Sebastopol, CA—With the iPhone 3.0 software and the new iPhone 3GS, Apple has a world-class hit on its hands. This sleek, highly refined pocket computer comes with everything--including a cellphone, iPod, Internet, and camcorder--except a...

[Publish Date: July 28, 2009]

Blue Sun? What an IBM acquisition of Sun means for software - O'Reilly

By Kurt Cagle

Sun's software side of the acquisition ledger, especially by IBM, has been rather oddly overlooked, given that it will likely have major implications for software development and cloud computing for years. Sun's software holdings cover five primary areas - Java, Solaris, mySQL, Open Office, and Sun's recently acquired QLayer cloud infrastructure. Understanding how IBM could potentially ramp up (or destroy) each of these gives some interesting insight into the real value of IBM's potential software acquisitions.

[Publish Date: March 23, 2009]

Eucalyptus: an Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: OSCON 2009 - ...

By Rich Wolski

We will present Eucalyptus -- Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems -- an open source software infrastructure that implements IaaS-style cloud computing. The goal of Eucalyptus is to allow sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to host an elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with Amazon's AWS.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Results from Wolfram Alpha: All the Questions We Ever Wanted to Ask About ...

By Andy Oram

Software as a Service, known in earlier decades as Application Service Providers, upends the relationship between computer users and software. I'm seriously tempted to say that Wolfram Alpha takes the SaaS model to its extreme. So Wolfram Alpha's chances at scaling the heights of fame should force us to stop for a moment and run our own calculations concerning the value to us of data integrity, reliability, privacy, and innovation.

[Publish Date: May 06, 2009]

Cloud Computing defined by Berkeley RAD Labs - O'Reilly Radar

By Artur Bergman

I am pleased to finally have found a paper that manages to bring together the different aspects of cloud computing in a coherent fashion, and suggests the requirements for it to develop further. Written by the Berkeley RAD Lab (UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory) the paper succinctly brings together Software as a Service with Utility Computing to come...

[Publish Date: February 12, 2009]

Cloud computing perspectives and questions at the World Economic Forum - ...

By Andy Oram

The World Economic Forum started a research project at Davos 2009 concerning cloud computing, which they broadly define to include all kinds of remote services, from Software as a Service to virtual machines.

[Publish Date: July 09, 2009]