Twenty years of best-of-breed computer systems and constantly increasing IT budgets have failed to deliver the promised efficiencies.
(NYT) TRENTON: GATES GIVES MILLIONS TO SCHOOLS -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $5.1 million grant to help teach New Jersey school principals and superintendents how to make the best use of computer technology.
Virtualization makes best use of computer resources and makes hardware more productive.
We need to view what is happening today as a rich ecosystem that represents the best blend of computer and cryptography science, and not just as an ecosystem of bitcoin-centric technologies.
And he's done it, in the best tradition of computer hackers, using off-the-shelf resources: he has scoured through previously secret court filings for technical details about the NSA's activities, and he built an app that users can install on their phones to see how much their call metadata reveals.
He did not own a television set, and found the best use of computers was to listen to American civil-war songs.
The best use of computers is to enhance human abilities.
This shows that using technology as a tool, humans can enhance our own capabilities and make the best use of computers and the technology we have created.
Serving as convener and funder, the government would bring together the best and brightest of computer scientists, entrepreneurs, hackers, big-data authorities, scientific researchers, venture capitalists, lawyers, public policy experts, law enforcement officers, and public health officials, as well as military and intelligence personnel.
I asked Shapiro if the site might be better if it simply named the best of each class of computer: a great ultralight for people who travel frequently; a workhorse for people who need to do video processing, and so on.
