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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.

The article reports on the rollout of Magic computer system in New York State. Magic is one of the most powerful computer system in the state for solving computationally-demanding problems. Located at the University of Buffalo's North Campus, Magic features graphic processing units typically reserved for high-end gaming systems that are integrated into a traditional set of computers.

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.

Answers questions related to the local bus system in New York. Acquisition of clock speed from the master oscillator; Changes from standard bus to the Microchannel Bus; Agreement on the Extended Industry Standard Architecture; Provision of separate bus in the local bus system.

Presents information on items to be displayed at PC Expo, a computer exposition which will be held in New York City during June, 1998. Comments from Rhoda Alexander, senior market analyst at Stanford Research Incorporated; Identification of companies attending this exposition; Description and features of items to be displayed; Prices of these items.

Focuses on the Seybold Seminars New York '98, which will focus on the process as well as the results of digital publishing. Information on the various server systems that will be introduced; Introduction of hardware from Apple Computer; Color management software; Graphics and layout software.

The article features information technology services provider International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) of Armonk, New York. The company made it to the 2008 20 Best Companies for Multicultural Women in the United States, a diversity initiative created by Working Mother Media. Around 8% of the company's 128,794 employees are women of color and 3% are women of color executives/managers.

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.

Presents an illustration of the MacWorld Creative Pro Conference and Expo at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center in New York.

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.

Presents the opinion that computer-networking companies may benefit from the destruction of the New York City World Trade Center. Problems facing business travel, including heightened security measures; Idea that demand could be created for teleconferencing applications; Outlook for the airline industry.

Presents the opinion that computer-networking companies may benefit from the destruction of the New York City World Trade Center. Problems facing business travel, including heightened security measures; Idea that demand could be created for teleconferencing applications; Outlook for the airline industry.

Presents the opinion that computer-networking companies may benefit from the destruction of the New York City World Trade Center. Problems facing business travel, including heightened security measures; Idea that demand could be created for teleconferencing applications; Outlook for the airline industry.

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.

Features several innovative computer equipment and supplies from Apple Computer Corp. in New York. Specifications and price of the Power Mac G4 Cube supercomputer; Colors and slot-loading drives of iMac computers; Compatibility of Apple Pro Mouse and Keyboard with all iMac machines.

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.

The article announces the awards given to computer companies during the Interop 2006 in New York on September 18-25. The winner for the Data Center & Storage is the product from D-Link Corp. which is the D-Link DSN-3000 Series xStack Storage iSCSI SAN Array. The winner for the Wireless & Mobility category is the product from Reva Systems Corp. which is the RF10 Tag Acquisition Processor and for the Network Software & Services is the eTelemetry Locate.

Reports on the closure of operations of the U.S.-based portable memory maker DataPlay after the failure of its last-minute attempt to secure financial backing. Spate of activities in the company prior to its filing for bankruptcy; Problems faced in the production and product retail launch; Failure of the company to make products available on retail.

Reports the depressive status of Personal Computer (PC) retail market despite boost during holiday selling season in New York. Amount of decrease in fourth quarter; Decrease in PC shipments; Status of Gartner Dataquest shipment on units.

Reports the cooperation of the computer industry leaders, politicians, and celebrities in the launching of the Windows XP operating system in New York. Benefits of XP to consumers; Plan of a better multimedia experience for the user; Importance of XP on PC industry.

Reports the effect of terrorist attacks on the computer engineering (CE) events and computer industries in New York, New York. Closure of the computer stores; Cancellation of computer industry related events and legislative sessions; Observations for the consumer confidence of buying and CE demand.

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.