Cisco CSO says security is growing up By: Robert McMillan
07/08/2008 07:51:10
John Stewart doesn't talk like your typical corporate executive. He said that his company, Cisco Systems, has been lucky when it comes to security and that his company's Self-Defending Network marketing push has painted "a big bull's-eye" on its products. More...

NATs necessary for IPv6, says IETF chair By: Carolyn Duffy Marsan
22/07/2008 09:28:47
We posed a few questions to Russ Housley, chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force, about why the standards body is developing network address translations for IPv6 when IPv6 was supposed to eliminate the need for NATs on the Internet. Here's what Housley had to say. More...

Cisco exec shares virtualization vision By: Jim Duffy
11/07/2008 11:10:20
John McCool took over for Jayshree Ullal when the longtime and very visible Cisco data center chief resigned in May. McCool is no stranger though -- he came to Cisco in the Granite Networks acquisition during the industry's Gigabit Ethernet boom in the 1990s. Weeks into his new job as senior vice president of data center, switching and security, McCool shared some of Cisco's plans and visions with Managing Editor Jim Duffy. More...

E-voting activist more optimistic about voting systems By: Todd R. Weiss
07/07/2008 11:27:59
For more than a decade, Aviel "Avi" Rubin, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and an e-voting activist, has been a vocal critic of e-voting systems across the nation. In 2006, Rubin wrote the book, Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting, which heavily criticized e-voting machines for security and reliability shortcomings. Rubin talked with Computerworld about the recent presidential primary election cycle and his thoughts on e-voting going into the November elections. The following is an edited version of that interview. More...

Facebook seeks trusted relationships on the 'Net By: Paul Krill
04/07/2008 09:57:22
While perhaps best known as a major social networking site in the Web 2.0 vein, Facebook is becoming a popular place to interface with potential customers, similar to what companies such as Scribe and iLike have done. Facebook also is being viewed as a place for enterprise collaboration, with Serena Software leveraging the site for this purpose. To get perspective on Facebook, InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill recently spoke with Aditya Agarwal, Facebook director of engineering. Agarwal formerly worked in the Oracle server technologies division. More...

Q&A: Your disgruntled customers may be complaining to this man -- and all of the Internet By: Heather Havenstein
01/07/2008 10:00:02
Meet the man who could be your company's de facto customer service representative - a man you have never met and certainly isn't on your payroll. Thor Muller is founder and CEO of Satisfaction Unlimited, which runs an online community where customers air complaints about companies like Comcast, Apple, United Airlines, Whole Foods, Washington Mutual, Snapfish and Expedia to fellow customers and to the Internet at large. More...

The A-Z of Programming Languages: C++ By: Naomi Hamilton
25/06/2008 21:50:12
Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, Microsoft about its server-side script engine ASP, and Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash. We have also spoken to Charles H. Moore about Forth. In this interview, we chat to Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame about the design and development of C++, garbage collection and the role of facial hair in successful programming languages. More...

The low-down on Open Source Law By: Andrew Hendry
25/06/2008 08:58:35
Open Source Law founder, Brendan Scott, discusses the legal implications of FOSS in Australian government and enterprise organisations. More...

Looking back on the Top500 By: James Niccolai
19/06/2008 10:25:13
The Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers passed a milestone Wednesday with the first system to achieve peak performance of 1 petaflop/s, or one quadrillion floating point operations per second. More...

The A-Z of Programming Languages: ASP By: Naomi Hamilton
11/06/2008 11:18:08
Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash, and S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions. In this article we chat to Microsoft about its web application framework ASP.NET, used to build dynamic Web sites, applications and Web services More...

Networking veteran launches unique auction site By: Jon Brodkin
10/06/2008 10:53:50
The quest to find a good price on a high-definition television can be a frustrating and confusing experience. For most people, the process concludes with the purchase of a brand-new TV set. For Mukesh Chatter, that was just the beginning. More...

Intel's Patrick Gelsinger on the hot seat By: Gary Anthes
06/06/2008 07:26:08
Patrick Gelsinger is an electrical engineer. He joined Intel in 1979, worked on the design of the 80286 and 80386 microprocessors, and was the chief architect for the 80486 chip. More...

Yahoo's BrowserPlus to boost Web app platform By: Juan Carlos Perez
02/06/2008 09:12:05
Yahoo last week announced it is working on BrowserPlus, a development platform for creating Web applications that contain desktop capabilities. More...

The A-Z of Programming Languages: BASH/Bourne-Again Shell By: Naomi Hamilton
30/05/2008 09:43:51
Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we spoke to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, and in this article we chat to Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash. More...

Career Watch: Dealing with slackers at work By: Jamie Eckle
29/05/2008 09:47:59
Ram Murthy, the director of application systems at the Peace Corps, answers questions about education, certifications, leadership and dealing with slackers. More...

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