ACM, Turing and the Internet
Vint Cerf and Bob Khan got a well-deserved dinner and party in San Francisco courtesy of the ACM. A collection of Internet "who's whos", lots of wine and speeches, and most importantly, their coveted Turing award. This award was announced several mon......Posted by lynne at 09:45
Fun Friday - CNET says "The only good girl geek is a dead girl geek"?
As the last slice of pumpkin pie vanishes and the pot of turkey soup slowly simmers on the stove (and yes, I do make turkey soup - it's good for you), a few items for post-holiday tech cheers and jeers... A guest columnist on Matt Marshall's VentureB......Posted by lynne at 14:16
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Flamethrowers and Memories
Alex Cannera dropped an interesting paper on my desktop discussing congestion control in grid networks. And it's results confirm what I and others have seen over the years - Vint Cerf seriously saw in 1998 that hop-by-hop reliability preserving end-to-end semantics...Posted by lynne at 00:00
Term Memory Patent Parchment Looks Lovely and Feels Great!
OK. I know the patent attorney said I got the patent grant ("Term Addressable Memory of an Accelerator System and Method") a while ago, but it really is different when you actually hold it in your hand! I was so excited that I told Vint Cerf about it......Posted by lynne at 14:56
Interplanetary TCP
Google put out a lunar job listing, for the person who really needs to get away from people. So I went and asked Vint Cerf "Perhaps this is the first real use of interplanetary TCP?". He laughed. I think you will too. OK, I like Google. Always have I ...Posted by lynne at 11:22
Fast Internet Movers and the Long Term
Bill Burnham's slant on "Deal flow is dead, long live thesis driven investment" makes a number of good points for rethinking investment for Internet companies. Ben Savage of Wasserstein & Co counters "So a firm that pursues thesis driven deals in 'un......Posted by lynne at 14:04