Companies that deploy RFID systems will need to use 'complex event processing' to identify meaningful information from the stream of data RFID readers will provide."
posted by david soul @ 28.12.04
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Slashdot | Windows Upgrade, FAA Error Cause LAX Shutdown
posted by david soul @ 27.12.04
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Here is an great Real-Time Enterprise (RTE) strategic white paper by Vinod Khosla a highly respected industry veteran and VC.
Vinod's article (circa. 2002) covers the broad spectrum of business integration areas and issues that provided my architectural blueprint for Virtuoso 2.5 (circa. 1998; we are now at 3.5). Although Vinod doesn't explicitly describe a 'Universal Server' in his paper, there are common keywords and concept patterns (Virtualization, Information Base etc.) that demonstrate a common understanding of corporate integration pain points and suggested routes for pain alleviation.
There is a high probability that when you read this article you will have a clearer understanding of the reasoning behind the functionality and architecture of Virtuoso. Hopefully you will see why the shape and form of a new server format, is one that offers multi-protocol and multi-purpose server functionality.
I firmly believe that Enterprise Data & Information Integration, Application Logic Integration, and Business Process Integration can be implemented as part of a single product offering in the form of a server instance that speaks many protocols by coherently implementing a plethora of industry standards."
posted by david soul @ 26.12.04
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Carl Kaplan writes in the NY Times about an article by Daniel J. Solove, an assistant professor at Seton Hall Law School ("Privacy and Power: Computer Databases and Metaphors for Information Privacy") that claims that the battle of the metaphors is much more than a literary parlor game...... in fact, the way a problem is framed determines its solution.....
posted by david soul @ 26.12.04
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David Appell comments on potntial hazards when "special circumstances manage to drill their way into every reasonable policy.." his case in point .... Yahoo under attack by the parents of a Marine (killed in Iraq) who want to read his email.
posted by david soul @ 26.12.04
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How to design a healthy business:
The use of the Viable Systems Model in the diagnosis and design of organisational structures in co-operatives and other social economy enterprises.
A manual for the diagnosis and design of organisational structures
to enable social economy enterprises to function with
increased efficiency without compromising democratic principles.
posted by david soul @ 24.12.04
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The Cybernetics Society: In Memory of Stafford Beer: "The late Professor Stafford Beer bestrode Management as a colossus."
posted by david soul @ 23.12.04
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The Metaphorum Group: "The Metaphorum Group
Developing Stafford Beer's Legacy in Management Cybernetics"
posted by david soul @ 23.12.04
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"The Cwarel Isaf Institute was founded to make the life's work of Stafford Beer available to society. Stafford Beer's thinking and the avenues he opened to solutions are of fundamental importance to management in complex systems. For the benefit of organizations now and in the future, the aim is for his work to be put into a form in which it is understandable and geared to practical application, and for it to be passed on both to those actually engaged in management and those who are studying it."
posted by david soul @ 23.12.04
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The American Society for Cybernetics has complied a list of influential individuals in the field of cybernetics ....
posted by david soul @ 23.12.04
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According to The George Washington University American Society for Cybernetics, "There are many definitions of cybernetics and many individuals who have influenced the definition and direction of cybernetics. Norbert Wiener, a mathematician, engineer and social philosopher, coined the word "cybernetics" from the Greek word meaning "steersman." He defined it as the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine. Ampere, before him, wanted cybernetics to be....."
posted by david soul @ 23.12.04
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My other blog... this one mainly around the concept of Complex event Processing but with side excursions into Patent and other intellectual property concerns
posted by david soul @ 23.12.04
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The Official Stafford Beer Web Site
posted by david soul @ 23.12.04
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A recent (06/21/2004) article by David Luckham, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University continuing his describtion of the general inability to manage real time event-driven enterprises.
More on Professor Luckham's work can be found at:
http://www.complexevents.com/
posted by david soul @ 23.12.04
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Random thoughts on the use of Sensor Networks for Managerial Cybernetics
