Tuesday, November 3, 2009
After One Year, Conficker Infects Seven Million Computers
The Conficker worm has passed a dubious milestone.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Do You Miss the AT&T Monopoly?
When AT&T grudgingly agreed to break itself up 25 years ago, it was seen as a truly momentous event in the history of the telecommunications industry. Today, however, some experts question not only whether the breakup of AT&T was necessary, but whether it even had any long-term impact on the telecom market.
Friday, November 21, 2008
IETF: Should We Ignore the Kaminsky Bug?
The Internet engineering community is grappling with what to do about a serious flaw in the DNS discovered this summer, and the ongoing debate brings to mind a famous quotation from Voltaire: “The perfect is the enemy of the good.”
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence?
In 1965, artificial intelligence innovator Herbert Simon said that “machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do.” Two years later, MIT researcher Marvin Minsky predicted, “Within a generation … the problem of creating ‘artificial intelligence’ will substantially be solved.” … Yet, here we are, decades later and what has artificial intelligence done for us lately? If you define artificial intelligence as self-aware, self-learning, mobile systems, then artificial intelligence has been a huge disappointment.
Monday, January 28, 2008
What if the Internet Went Down … and Didn’t Come Back Up?
Imagine, if you will, a world with no Internet. No email. No e-commerce. And no BlackBerrys. Email would be supplanted by snail mail; cellphones by landlines. Now imagine what the future would look like. Futurists say virtual business services of all sorts, accounting, payroll and even sales would come to a halt, as would many companies. This immediately made me think of E. M. Forster’s disturbing tale ” The Machine Stops.” Written in 1909, it describes the downfall of a civilization that had wrapped itself in the cocoon of an automated life-support system. But people began to think of the Machine as an infallible deity, and lived in their individual mechanical wombs, communicating and doing business only through the Machine.
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