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The article presents information on the annual meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery which was held from October 24-26, 1983 in New York City. The general chairman of the meeting was Thomas A. D'Auria, Deputy Commissioner of the New York City, and program chairman was John Tartar of the University of Toronto. In the opening session, U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg discussed some of the problems prevalent in the computer age. The Plenary session speakers were William F. Miller of SRI International, Seymour Papert of MIT, George Rittersbach of Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co., and Edith Martin of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Reports on the arrest of Long Island, New York-based MJL Designs president Michael Lofaro for computer tampering. Reported planting of a virus into a client's computer system; Jail term and fines if convicted.

The article presents information on the minutes of the council meeting of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) held from June 8 to 11, 1976 in New York City. It mentions the number of council members who attended the meeting. It reveals that the council approved the fiscal year 1977 budget with a net loss of approximately $36,000. Moreover, it cites the survey of the membership to determine preferences in the area of ACM publications. Other topics discussed at the meeting include constitution and bylaws and standards.

This article reports that the second Stony Brook Conference on Advances in Computing was held on the campus of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York on Friday, June 10, 1966. The Long Island Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery joined with the University to sponsor the conference which was partially supported by International Business Machines Corp. The first technical presentation was a thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion of "Feasible Large-Scale Computer Models" by C. West Churchman of the University of California at Berkeley. He pointed to the very large models that can now be built, and the very much larger models that we will soon be able to build, and stated that the models are not realistic because the quality of information is not adequate and because the right questions remain unasked. Walter F. Bauer, president of Informatics Inc., discussed "On-Line Systems, Past, Present and Future."A talk by Oscar L. Morgenstern of the Mitre Corp. on the Air Traffic Control Subsystem of the Airspace System concluded the morning program.

The article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of increased eligibility levels to gain membership of the Association for Computing Machinery. In a Council of the Association meeting held at New York City in May 1965, it was decided that the eligibility criteria for a voting member would be expanded and a new nonvoting type of membership would be established known as Associate membership. The argument in favour suggests that in view of the increased competitiveness in the field of information processing the increased levels of eligibility criteria are justified. The argument against it goes that increasing eligibility levels is useful only if there is no provision for associate membership.

EMC Corp. is levaraging its Legato and Documentum divisions to build tightly knit hardware, software and services packages to help guide customers through a minefield of growing data retention and e-mail archiving compliance concerns. The EMC Proven precon figured and tested bundles will relieve enterprise customers of the burden of figuring out where in the various tiers of their storage architectures to keep data so that it complies with government regulations, officials said. At its EMC Forum customer event in New York this week, EMC, of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, will introduce three such packages. Two EMC Proven CARS, content archiving and retrieval solutions bundles manage document archiving. The EMC proven solutions for e-mail archiving package manages electronic messages. Also at the event, EMC will unveil CentraStar Version 2.3 software for its Centera Compliance Edition disk array. The upgrade provides new capabilities for automating compliance with data retention and deletion policies.

Discusses several changes that occurred to Data-Link Associates, a computer-supplies company in Long Island, New York, since it utilized the Internet selling technology. Leverage with prospective customers; Expanded marketplace; Increase in credit-card sales.

The article focuses on the New York-based information technology (IT) solution provider Atlantic Tomorrow. It was founded in 1959 as photocopier dealer with five employees and has grown to a 200-employees IT services provider. It earned $40 million revenue in 2006 and expects to increase it by 10 million in 2007. Commitment to service is considered to be the most important factor in the success of Atlantic, whose products carry its Seal of Satisfaction which assures customers that a technician will be on-site within four hours of a call for support. According to Atlantic vice president Adam Weiss, providing network services with service level agreements from beginning to end is a big growth area for the company.

The article reports on the Microsoft Shared Source license which was submitted by John Cowan to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) without the knowledge or approval of Microsoft Corp. Cowan is a programmer and a blogger in New York and a volunteer for the Chester County Interlink which promotes e-literacy and community development using Information Technology. He submitted an e-mail to OSI stating that Microsoft is adding new licenses to its Shared Source Initiative which he believes will qualify as open-source licenses and should be approved by OSI even though it is basically similar to more widely used weak-reciprocal licenses but still it failed the company's approval.

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has made available a handful of new enablement templates and some midyear metrics to bolster its Small and Medium Business (SMBs) Advantage program for partners that develop software for SMBs. The six new Solution Builder Express Portfolio templates, or Starting Points, are designed to help partners figure out how to configure their software and services to fit with IBM's WebSphere middleware offerings. The six Starting Points unveiled last week add to the Armonk, New York-based vendor's current 12 Starting Points. IBM announced its SMB Business Advantage program in January as a sort of onestop technical support and networking arena for IBM's SMB software partners. The Express templates have helped Kevin Jinx, senior vice president of sales and recruiting at Dynax Solutions Inc., better sell his company's IT services. The company said it acquired 10,000 new SMB customers in the first half of this year, twice as many as it did in the same period last year and more than it garnered for the entire year. Of those new SMB customers, about 25 percent are Express middleware users.

OEMs lead by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) are trying to spark interest in blade servers by expanding the capabilities of their respective systems. IBM is seen as a market leader in blade systems, servers that can fit book like into chassis and share resources such as power supplies and networking infrastructures. The Armonk, New York-based company, through partnerships with Nortel Networks Ltd. and Cisco Systems Inc., has integrated Ethernet networking switch modules into its BladeCenter systems over the last two months. IBM also will ship its Powerbased JS20 blade server and the four-way HS40, powered by Intel Corp.'s Xeon processors, with Fibre Channel switch blades, management controllers and Fibre Down host bus adapters from QLogic Corp., of Aliso Viejo, California. Other OEMs are also preparing new systems. Dell Computer Corp., of Round Rock, Texas, is working on a new generation of blades, according to officials. At the same time, a separate effort is under way in the industry to develop software for blade servers to make them easier to manage and enable them to interoperate.

IBM Corp.'s scaled-down version of its Blue Gene/L doesn't look like much of a supercomputer. About the size of a dishwasher, the Linux-based prototype is now the 73rd-fastest computer in the world and is just a sample of what's ahead, according to its chief architect. This version of Blue Gene/L is about 1/128th the size of the full Blue Gerie/L supercomputer that IBM is building for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, and the first part of a two-pronged IBM project to create the fastest computers in the world. The Blue Gene/L system being built for the Livermore lab, run by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy, is expected to be completed by the end of next year or in early 2005, said Al Gara, chief architect for the project, being run by IBM Research, in Yorktown Heights, New York.

BEA Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. are developing three new specifications that will improve portability across the companies' competing application servers as well as other Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition application servers that comply with the specifications. BEA, of San Jose, California, and IBM of Armonk, New York, plan to publish the specifications on a royalty-free basis and will submit them to the Java Community Process for approval as standards. The specifications include Service Data Objects (SDO), which delivers a programming model for data and varied data sources. SDO supports the use of standard tools and frameworks.

From managing storage to instrumenting and securing the networks and applications that use it, Computer Associates International Inc. is planning an aggressive three quarters of software launches, culminating at the CA-World show in May. The plans involve new and old technologies and indicate that the Islandia, New York, developer is shifting from its acquisitive tendencies and entering an extended period of productization, said Mark Barrenechea, senior vice president of product development. Across the company's six product areas, Advantage Database Management and Application Development, All-Fusion Application Life Cycle Management, BrightStor Storage, CleverPath Portal and Business Intelligence, eTrust Security, and Unicenter Enterprise Management, CA early next year will begin merging redundant software agents, Barrenechea said.

Highlights the LinuxWorld exhibition in New York. Consumer desktops sold by SuSe; Mainframe deal between Salomon Smith Barney and SuSe; Release of the personal mobile tool, Zaurus SL-5500 PDA by Sharp Electronics.

Focuses on the postponement of the conference party sponsored by International Business Machines at LinuxWorld in New York, New York. Lay off and cost cuts as reasons for postponement; Update on True Campaign by Business Software Alliance; Responses of the consumers regarding the performance of several products in the computer industry.

Presents updates on the computer industry in the United States as of September 2001. Key speaker at the Macworld Conference & Expo in New York; Main character of the film `Tomb Raider'; Apple's reason for suing Church of Satan.

Reports developments related to electronic commerce as of July 2001 in New York. Increase of online customer service; Conduction of surveys on media-buying executives; Indulgence of executives on interactive television, online sponsorship and banner advertising.

Presents an article which discussed the 2001Techxny & PC XPO, a computer and technology products exhibition in New York City. Description of the Nikon D1x digital camera; Information on the Sony R505 laptop computer; Popularity of the Compaq iPAQ computer from Compaq.

Presents an overview of the events during the third day of PC Expo, an exhibition from the computer industry in New York City. Problems with security at the press-kit area; Evaluation of the Scopeware 2.0 Integrated Suite computer software from MirrorWorld Technologies; Discussion on computer files and filesystems; Items featured in the show.

Presents information on PC Expo, a trade show for the computer industry in New York City. Popularity of wireless communication system devices in the exhibition; Updates on audiobooks; Information on cameras and scanners; Criticism on the line of personal and laptop computers; Discussion on powerline networking.

Comments on rumors and developments related to computer industry in the United States, current as of February 5, 2001. Participation of Microsoft executives at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York City; Inauguration of the independent Open Source Development Lab in Beaverton, Oregon.

Covers issues related to the computer industry as of October 30, 2000. Information on the Internet World conference in New York; Statistics on Internet access among Afro-Americans; Information on the Investment in Israel Technology conference in New York.

Discusses issues related to the 2000 PC Expo held in New York City. Handheld devices from Sony Corp. and Palm Inc.; IBM Corp.'s WebSphere line; Business-to-business Web companies' goal to turn PC Expo attendees from browsers to buyers.

Features the HarlemLive, a mosaic of life in that African-American community in New York, produced by Harlem high school students and delivered as a Web magazine. Creation by former teacher Richard Calton; Hosting of the site by the Columbia University; Winner of the 1999 Computerworld Smithsonian Awards, honoring information technology (IT) projects in the United States that benefit society.

Presents the technologies debuting at PC Expo in New York. Xeon chip from Compaq Computer Corporation; Universal Management Agent from the IBM Corporation; Versa LX and Versa SX universal notebooks from NEC Corporation.

The author reflects on a lawsuit against Dell Inc. claiming that the company engaged in a false advertising and deceptive business practices as a means of boosting profits on their personal computer sales. He points out that the company is denying the charges and is insisting that it will defend itself in court. He argues that Dell could be in no position to do so as countless users have validated their fraudulent acts and the state of New York refused to do business with them.

The article discusses the author's experience of being in the information technology industry. He recalls the heroic acts of his colleague named Joe Rankin during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City. He remembers being laid off a few months after Rankin and his entire group were laid off.

This article presents the author's views on the first Start of Authority (SOA) Executive Forum conducted by Infoworld in San Jose, California and in New York, both in May 2005. The juxtaposition of the two events helped me reconcile a deep schism between two factions, which I will call the WS and Web 2.0 camps. The argument, which revolves around pairs of opposing and overloaded words--simplicity versus complexity, decentralization versus centralization, agility versus stability--has been going on for years, but it is gotten really loud in recent months. Like a pair of bookends, our two keynote speakers neatly bracketed the debate. In San Jose, Motorola CIO Toby Redshaw sketched out a SOA deployment that was music to the ears of WS-aligned vendors and standards makers. For Redshaw, the key to success is shared infrastructure: a central directory based on the oft-maligned UDDI standard, and an enterprisewide WS management system. At our New York event, though, Harvard Medical School CIO John Halamka told a very different story. His task was to streamline financial and clinical data exchange across New England's network of physicians, hospitals, and insurers. The solution relies on techniques that Web 2.0 advocates know and love: XML across HTTP, secured with Secure Sockets Layer. Simple Object Access Protocol and WS-Security are part of the mix now, but the system was up and running before those standards were done. And to this day, for political and logistical reasons, it remains a loose federation with little shared infrastructure or central control.

The article presents a list of events related to computer industry to be held in 2005. The Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies will be held during April 11-13 in San Francisco. The conference includes tracks on content management, enterprise search and knowledge management, content technology, document and records management and enterprise information integration. The Conference Board Inc. will conduct its Strategic Alliances Conference on April 14-15 in New York. Topics of discussion include using alliances to fuel innovation and growth, introducing innovation through alliances, sourcing innovation externally, partnering with competitors, forging big-small alliances, implementing go-to-market strategies with partners and deciding when to partner. A conference on Business Process Outsourcing will be held on April 18-19 in New York. An IT Symposium sponsored by Gartner Inc. will be held on May 15-19 in San Francisco.

Reports that Cornell University will build the central engine for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), an online resource that will make high-quality source materials in science available to students. Features; Support from the National Science Foundation; Use of the standard Open Archive Initiative.

Presents information to those who will attend the PC Expo in New York City in June 2001. Best round-trip airfare as of May 24, 2001; Best hotel deals; Points of interest.

This article reports that New York-based BBDO Worldwide is making a high-stakes push to snare the Dell Computer Corp. account from J. Walter Thompson USA Inc. (JWT), with the incumbent scrambling to keep the $100 million-plus business. Dell vice president of corporate branding Scott Helbing denied reports that Dell had given JWT a 30-day notice and declined to comment on whether the computer marketer was looking beyond that agency. In late August 1998, JWT presented new advertising, keeping its "Be direct" tag but adopting a slightly different look. There were some indications late last week that the new work could save the business.