Under his real name (Paul Linebarger) he wrote "Psychological Warfare", one of the seminal books on the topic, back in the '50s. A very interesting read.
I understand that Lenovo wants to distance itself from IBM by making this kind of decisions, but it sure is an confusing name choice for the new series of Thinkpads. IBM has been using the zSeries name for its (thriving) line of s390 mainframes for years
His is a predictable move. If after 9 years at Caltech he was still mired in an untenured, non-tenure-track position of "faculty associate", it's natural that he jumped at the chance of becoming a full professor at LSU.
This comment is neither an endorsement nor an attempt to disparage the guy's technical merits, as I don't know the politics going on at Caltech. At least in computer science at Stanford, getting tenure has gotten ridiculously unlikely in the last several years.
Although it's been delayed a couple of times already, the Opteron servers built around the Kealia technologies are supposed to be coming out sometime in the next few weeks. Rumor is that they'll be pretty good--at least, Sun got Andreas von Bechtolsheim (as part of the package) to design them.
the animal is an ermine, the painting is the "ritratto di dama con ermellino" ("portrait of a lady with an ermine") by Leonardo da Vinci. it's part of the princess Czartoryska collection in Kraków.
Although the SIGMOD'88 paper meant "inexpensive" as part of the RAID acronym, early disk array implementations used specialized signaling to keep all disks in the array rotationally synchronized and even to have all actuators on the same cylinders at any given time, a la RAID-2 or -3. Disks in such arrays could be considered dependent on one another, unlike modern arrays in which head positioning is independent across disks. Obviously, an array of dependent disks is not adequate for all five layouts in the paper.
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Under his real name (Paul Linebarger) he wrote "Psychological Warfare", one of the seminal books on the topic, back in the '50s. A very interesting read.
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Long ago.
I understand that Lenovo wants to distance itself from IBM by making this kind of decisions, but it sure is an confusing name choice for the new series of Thinkpads. IBM has been using the zSeries name for its (thriving) line of s390 mainframes for years
His is a predictable move. If after 9 years at Caltech he was still mired in an untenured, non-tenure-track position of "faculty associate", it's natural that he jumped at the chance of becoming a full professor at LSU.
This comment is neither an endorsement nor an attempt to disparage the guy's technical merits, as I don't know the politics going on at Caltech. At least in computer science at Stanford, getting tenure has gotten ridiculously unlikely in the last several years.
Although it's been delayed a couple of times already, the Opteron servers built around the Kealia technologies are supposed to be coming out sometime in the next few weeks. Rumor is that they'll be pretty good--at least, Sun got Andreas von Bechtolsheim (as part of the package) to design them.
the animal is an ermine, the painting is the "ritratto di dama con ermellino" ("portrait of a lady with an ermine") by Leonardo da Vinci. it's part of the princess Czartoryska collection in Kraków.
Although the SIGMOD'88 paper meant "inexpensive" as part of the RAID acronym, early disk array implementations used specialized signaling to keep all disks in the array rotationally synchronized and even to have all actuators on the same cylinders at any given time, a la RAID-2 or -3. Disks in such arrays could be considered dependent on one another, unlike modern arrays in which head positioning is independent across disks. Obviously, an array of dependent disks is not adequate for all five layouts in the paper.
IBM has hundreds of CS researchers, and hardly qualifies as a "walking dead" company.