by Jane Wakefield, BBC News Technology There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing us that our human services are now surplus to requirements. In reality, our electronic overlords are already taking control, and they are doing it in a far more subtle way than science fiction would have us believe. Their weapon of [...]
by Mark Little, InfoQ In 2002 David Luckham introduced the term Complex Event Processing (CEP). In papers several years later on the history of CEP, Luckham showed how although event processing has been a core part of distributed systems and simulations for decades, CEP is an evolution and not the same as, say, context switching. [...]
by Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education Computer networks proved their organizing power during the recent uprisings in the Middle East, in which Facebook pages amplified street protests that toppled dictators. But those same networks showed their weaknesses as well, such as when the Egyptian government walled off most of its citizens from the [...]
By: Colin Clark, Sys-Con.com As much as I disagree with much of what Curt Monash writes, he did actually ask a good question recently in his post, “Renaming CEP… or not” Without getting into a rehash of the hash over there, let’s look at things a bit differently. Let’s talk about what CEP is not. [...]
by Darryl K. Taft, eWeek Google plans to introduce a new programming language called Dart at the upcoming Goto conference. Dart is described as a structured Web programming language, and Google engineers Lars Bak and Gilad Bracha are scheduled to present it at Goto, which takes place Oct. 10-12 in Aarhus, Denmark. Bracha is the [...]