Government Computer News

Government Computer News is a trade publication for U.S. government information technology (IT) workers. For GCN, I cover the technical aspects of pretty much all forms of IT, both software and hardware. Stories are published in a bi-monthly magazine and posted online. GCN is currently owned by 1105 Media.

Business intelligence software:

Measure once, use often: The Defense Acquisition University uses data integration tools to gain new insights from existing information (Case Study), 2007-02-04.
Speaking in tongues: Building workflow with business processes rather than with code (Feature), 2005-10-05.
Jim Goodnight | Intelligence apps look to future: (Q&A), 2005-07-19.
How do you know what you know? How the Coast Guard uses topic maps (Case Study), 2005-06-25.
How to avoid getting skewed results: Data sets with missing or inaccurate information obviously can skew data mining results (Sidebar), 2004-09-27.
Formatting the future: The long term preservation plans of NARA (Case Study), 2004-09-27.
Census online carves out custom data: (Case Study), 2004-09-09.

Cloud Computing:

Open-source tools could make it easier to build a hybrid cloud: Two new cloud brokers, Eucalyptus and Deltacloud, offer a front end to commercial providers (Online news story), 2009-11-13.
Service agencies conjure their own clouds: (Feature Story), 2009-10-23.
Up-front software costs a problem for government cloud providers: (Blog Entry), 2009-10-09.
Caputuring the private cloud: Running cloud computing in-house (Feature), 2009-07-13.
Cloud computing has appeal for Web applications: Running Web apps in the cloud (Feature), 2009-05-19.
But is it really cloud computing? Or is it merely web hosting? (Blog Entry), 2009-05-17.
Kundra courts the risk of innovation: Assessing the new Federal CIO (Feature), 2009-04-06.
Revving up Google's App engine: The details of computing in the cloud (Blog Entry), 2009-03-09.
Service or appliance? The best way for IT as a service (Blog Entry), 2006-08-01.

Content and Document Management:

Is PDF hurting transparency? : (Online News Story), 2009-11-04.
White House shift to open-source Web system draws mostly praise: (Online), 2009-10-29.
Tony Byrne, CMS Watch: New rules of content management (Q&A ), 2008-11-14.
The case for e-discovery: Records management 2.0 (Feature), 2008-10-26.
Drupal gets commercial support: Open source CMS gets corporate backing (Online), 2008-03-07.
What you see is not all of what you get Office file formats may hide indetifying data (Blog Entry), 2007-05-18.
Owen Ambur: Data and the federal government (Q&A), 2007-08-07.
Frictionless data: How some agencies use data exchanges that are built on existing systems (Feature), 2006-05-31.
Fuzzy mapping: The difficulties of data management (Sidebar), 2006-05-31.
Without a trace: The danger of hidden metadata (Feature), 2006-02-16.
Data cleaning 101 (Sidebar), 2006-01-09.
To tag or not to tag: Debating the value of metadata (Feature), 2006-01-05.
E-Government run amok: Agencies grapple with the influx of form e-mails (Feature), 2005-6-21.
It pays to be persistent: Persistent identifiers make permanent addresses (Feature), 2005-08-19.
Frank Dravis | Keep your data fit enough to survive: Q&A about data quality (Feature), 2005-08-19.
New NOAA information policy stirs debate: Grappling over the extent that agencies make their data available (News Story), 2004-12-10.
Keeping data sources confidential: OMB guide will help agencies that collect statistical information (News Story), 2004-10-22.
Permanent tags would keep data visible: Government work on permanent Web addresses (News Story), 2004-09-10.
The lost, found: VA software Software sifts clues to find POWs, MIAs (Case Study), 2004-07-21.
Feds help create PDF archiving standard: PDF/A for long-term archival (News Story), 2004-05-19.
Global registry of product ID numbers serves the military and private sectors: A global registry of product numbers (Online News Story), 2004-02-18.

Databases:

A new patching strategy for Oracle: Unfeasible to patch everything right away (Online), 2009-05-20.
Why go relational? Alternatives to relational databases (Feature), 2008-09-30.
Secrets of database optimization: (Feature), 2008-08-15.
Fast times in database research: In-memory databases (News Story), 2007-05-30.
XQuery hits its stride: The XML database (Tech Brief), 2007-01-05.
Tom Kyte | The database comes alive! Answers about the Oracle database (Q&A), 2005-08-10.
Beyond the database giants: Open source databases (Feature), 2005-04-14.
Database misconceptions: Interview with Fabian Pascal, database gadfly (Q&A), 2004-09-22.
Researchers switch databases, just short of a petabyte : DOE goes with an object database (Case Study), 2004-06-30.

Data Center Management:

Data centers untangled: The art of cabling (Sidebar), 2008-07-03.
Fewer cables in your future? Cisco's Unified I/O (Sidebar), 2008-07-03.
Mine Safety and Health Administration builds data center from scratch: (Sidebar), 2008-07-03.
Color coding your cables: What is your scheme? (Sidebar), 2008-07-03.
When data centers lose their cool: As servers get hotter, data center cooling takes on new urgency (Feature), 2006-05-15.
How to chill out: Tips for data center cooling (Sidebar), 2006-05-15.

Electronic Forms:

Paper Cut: XML e-forms empty the in-box (Feature), 2006-09-16.
IRS tests 2-D bar codes for scanning e-forms : (Case Study), 2004-08-28.

E-Mail:

Beware of the autocomplete: E-mail follies (Blog Entry), 2008-01-23.
Microsoft exchange upgrade: Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007 delivers powerful new capabilities for e-mail (Feature), 2007-01-07.
Upgrading from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2007:A multi-stage process (Feature), 2005-04-28.
You've got no mail: Migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2003 (Feature), 2005-04-25.

Embedded computing:

The outer limits of embedded systems: The merging of electronics and information technology (Feature), 2008-12-15.
Resolution is not accuracy: How to pick the correct sample rate (Blog Entry), 2008-11-04.
Privacy and sensor networks: The proliferation of sensor networks (Blog Entry), 2008-08-12.
Tuning in to robot wisdom: Interview with Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot (Q&A), 2006-06-26.
Grand Challenge wrapup: Summary of the world\'s first robot race (Online extra), 2004-04-24.

Energy management:

NASA's new way of tracking battery life: A new statistical algorithm could better predict the life span of batteries (Online News Story), 2008-11-10.
Power over the air: Conveying energy sans wires (Tech Brief), 2007-07-12.
Data centers drunk on power : Crunching numbers with HP (Blog Entry), 2006-06-04.
NASA will test energized structures: Power in the walls (Online News Story), 2004-02-23.

Enterprise architecture:

A swat team for enterprise app performance: The Coast Guard sets up a dedicated unit for sussing out hard-to-pinpoint performance issues with enterprise apps (Online News Story), 2009-08-19.
Now what? The next steps for enterprise architecture (Feature), 2006-01-31.
System architects get new tool for their EA efforts: UML Version 2.0 provides greater flexibility and fluency in blending business and technical models (Feature), 2005-02-02.

File systems:

Lustre to battle file corruption: New features in the parallel file system (Blog Entry), 2008-10-07.
ZFS: The future for storage networks: (Sidebar), 2007-06-27.
Super saver: The race is on to build a fast, global file system for supercomputers (Feature), 2007-04-02.
The lost promise of WinFS: Microsoft abandons ambitious file system design (Blog Entry), 2006-07-05.
Samba takes on the enterprise: Connecting Windows and Linux (Online News Story), 2004-01-17.

Geospatial:

Online mapping eases county growing pains: Cumberland County, N.C. establishes self-service map-based info-center (Online News Story), 2009-08-07.
NASA opens World Wind viewer as a mapping tool: The whole world in your hands (Online News Story), 2007-05-18.
Geospatial for the cheap: Look out GIS vendors: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others are paving the way for low-cost GIS (Feature), 2007-04-14.
Making Google Maps your own: How to make Google maps work for your Web pages (Sidebar), 2007-04-14.

Grid Computing:

Grid and bear it: Although proven in academia and research, grid computing struggles to find a place in the enterprise. (Feature), 2006-11-16.
Grid accelerates research: (Sidebar), 2006-11-16.
Health agencies will share cancer drug data: Grid computing put to work (Online), 2003-11-13.

Hardware:

When nanoseconds matter, these products can help: (Tech Brief), 2009-09-23.
Recrunching the numbers of Mac procurement: Comparing Mac and PC costs, again (Blog Entry), 2009-03-18.
Macs go to work: Apples in the Federal space (Feature), 2009-02-19.
With hardware, buyer beware: Counterfeit Cisco gear (Sidebar), 2008-10-03.
When it pays to buy used: Used equipment (Feature), 2008-10-03.
Taking the desert by storm: Putting a military-hardened laptop through the paces at Burning Man (Feature), 2008-01-18.
Express bus: The coming of PCIe 2 (Tech Brief), 2007-02-05.
FPGAs face the music: Filed programmable gate arrays (Blog Entry), 2006-11-21.
Eng Lim Goh | SGI's memory of the future: Interview with SGI CTO (Q&A), 2006-09-05.
Pimp my Dell: (Tech Brief), 2006-08-22.
Ram On: The new DDR2 memory (Tech Brief), 2006-04-13.
DARPA develops portable atomic clock: Never differs more than 0.0000001 seconds from the Coordinated Universal Time (Online News Story), 2004-03-17.
Army commissions flexible displays: (Online News Story), 2003-11-17.

Identity Management:

How OpenID can lighten the load on user authentication schemes: (Feature Story), 2009-09-25.
Jackson Shaw, identities and directories: Microsoft Exchange expert weighs in (Q&A), 2008-09-30.
Veterans Affairs gets its rights: Federal agency uses Microsoft rights management (Feature), 2008-02-29.
Microsoft's token participation: Microsoft backs ADFS over industry-standard SAML (Sidebar), 2008-01-18.
SAML: The master key: Security protocol key to federated user identity management (Feature), 2008-01-18.

Miscellaneous:

DoD rethinking build versus buy: (Blog Entry), 2009-09-14.
Beyond the merely functional: Considerations of design in IT (Blog Entry), 2009-01-22.
Who's got the time? The difficulty of managing time on computers (Feature), 2008-06-20.
Fake Cisco gear suggests procurement failure: (Blog Entry), 2008-05-14.
That's ISO not I-S-O: ISO is not an acronym (Blog Entry), 2007-12-13.
The new power skills of sysadmins: What needs to be on your resume (Blog Entry), 2007-07-11.
Will your best work be remembered? The forgotten history of technology (Blog Entry), 2007-06-15.
Parsing the computer show: How a computer flea market reveals IT pricing at work (Blog Entry), 2007-04-21.
IP address exposed anonymous mudslinger: You can't hide behind a Yahoo mail account (Blog Entry), 2006-11-01.
Running the trains on time: On Bill Gates' departure: (Blog Entry), 2006-06-20.
NSA and Google: Separated at birth? (Blog Entry), 2006-05-26.
User group etiquette 101 : Planning the perfect user-group meeting (Blog Entry), 2006-05-01.
USDA Grad School: Unix out, Windows in: Studying the IT curriculum. (Blog Entry), 2006-04-16.
Deconstructing the Oracle-SAP ads: Technical catfight between software titans (Blog Entry), 2006-03-31.
NSF examines system for helping to match dental records: A new biometric (Online News Story), 2004-05-26.
Whither research: DOE's Advanced Technology Program (News Story), 2005-03-30.
The great PeopleSoft migration: What should agencies be thinking as they consider life after PeopleSoft? Move to Oracle, or jump ship? (Feature), 2005-03-02.
Making software that's immortal: Interview with Dan Bricklin, Co-inventor of the spreadsheet (Q&A), 2004-12-04.
DARPA takes aim at IT sacred cows: Rethinking the von Neumann architecture (Online News Story), 2004-03-11.
Putting play to work: Agencies find creative new uses for online games (Case Study), 2004-02-20.

Mobile Computing:

Command and control on the go: Military tests new technology (Online News Story), 2009-06-26.
Ready, aim, record: Attaching RFID tags to weapons (Case Study), 2008-05-01.
NRL advances mobile-routing protocol: Ad-hoc mobile networks with MAMET (Tech Brief), 2008-03-26.
Sandia labs demo ultrasecure wireless: Encrypting low-power, ultrawideband transmissions could have many uses for government agencies (Feature), 2005-08-19.
Put a cell tower in the hallway: In-building wireless (Feature), 2005-07-25.

Multimedia:

Tape is dead... at least for audio: Presevation techniques of the Library of Congress (Tech Brief), 2006-04-17.
Is This Thing On? Agencies are embracing podcasting as a low-cost way to deliver audio content to citizens (Feature), 2005-09-05.
Lights, camera, capture: With agencies' use of digital video on the rise, new standards make for better data management (Feature), 2005-01-16.

Networks:

IPv4 addresses almost gone: No more IPv4 addresses available after 2011, ARIN predicts (Online news story), 2009-11-06.
Navy field-tests network common operational picture service: What router failure can affect mission-readiness (Online), 2009-05-12.
FutureFlex tubes for fiber optics: The underground world of fiber conduits (Chart), 2009-04-06.
Ethernet gets twisted: Mellanox's twisted-pair 10GBase-T controller could fuse application and storage networks. (Tech Brief), 2008-12-20.
InfiniBand goes the distance: InfiniBand beats TCP/IP over a dedicated WAN, government researchers find. (Online News Story), 2008-12-23.
Getting more from your IPv6: Not just about address space (Tech Brief), 2008-11-14.
Static routing at the office: Virtual LANs (Tech Brief), 2008-05-02.
IETF douses IPv4: Test run of IPv6 (Blog Entry), 2008-03-19.
Karen Evans, OMB: The straight story on OMB's Internet connection policy (Q&A), 2008-01-03.
Spread the wealth: Montgomery County Maryland invests in fiber (Case Study), 2007-10-07.
Expanding Ethernet: iWarp Ethernet cuts latency (Tech Brief), 2007-01-08.
The competitive world of HPC interconnects: Is Infiniband really faster than Ethernet? (Feature), 2006-03-03.
ICANN calls for redundant Internet name servers: (Online News Story), 2004-01-12.
VPN pays off for the Army: Maintaining slot machines (Case Study), 2004-02-20.
FEMA says power line broadband threatens its radio system: Possible disruptions from the broadband over power line technology (Online News Story), 2003-12-17.

Office productivity software:

Spreadsheeting to the max: The best way to work with spreadsheets (Feature), 2008-06-20.
Open Office offers macros alternative: Programming this open source office prductivity software (Blog Entry), 2008-06-05.
Excel multiplication bug unearthed: First glimpse into the spreadsheet bug (Online News Story), 2007-09-25.
More on the Excel bug: Not a calculation error, just a display error (Blog Entry), 2007-09-26.
Squaring off: What is the difference between ODF and OOXML? (Feature), 2007-06-27.
Competitive intelligence or cat fight? The heated rhetoric over ODF (Sidebar), 2007-07-03.
Microsoft relents on open documents: Plug-in will help archiving, data sharing (Online News Story), 2006-07-13.
How Interior employees learned their new work alphabet: All about Activity-Based Costing (Feature), 2004-04-14.

Open Source:

DOD's new rules promote open source: (Online News Story), 2009-10-27.
DISA releases open-source administration app. (Online News Story),2009-08-18.
Why Linux Administrators Should Consider OpenSolaris: Interview with Harry Foxwell, OpenSolaris advocate (Q&A), 2009-07-27.
GSA makes the case for open source: How the General Services Administration uses open source software (Blog Entry), 2008-04-16.
Can open source survive Congress? New legislation (Blog Entry), 2008-09-29.
Font libre! Red Hat backs open source fonts (Tech Brief), 2007-09-21.
Mass retreat: Commonwealth steps back from non-proprietary requirement (Blog Entry), 2007-08-02.
Does FAR include open source? Government procurement rules clash with open source (Blog Entry), 2007-07-06.
How many device drivers equals a file system? Linux community gets ZFS envy (Blog Entry), 2007-06-15.
That word "open": Could DoD be spooked about the word "open" in "open source"? (Blog Entry), 2006-09-15.
Suite stacks: Open-source software combos challenge conventional views of enterprise software (Feature), 2006-05-10.
Open source stacks shake up government security certifications: (Sidebar), 2006-05-15.
What's in an open-source name?: Autodesk's opne-source gambit (Tech Brief), 2006-04-28.
Mono: Good for the Novell desktop: Introduction to the open source version of .NET (Blog Entry), 2006-04-04.
The real cost of open source software: Interview with Jon "Maddog" Hall, (Q&A), 2005-06-25.
Open for business: Having grown comfortable buying open-source programs, agencies begin openly publishing their own software code (Feature), 2005-06-01.
DHS bug hunt returns mixed reaction: Agency offers vulnerability scan for widely used open-source software, though some project leaders are skeptical of benefits (News Story), 2006-04-13.
Users of SELinux now have a choice on security : AppArmor or SELinux (News Story), 2006-03-16.
Sun targets Red Hat, not Microsoft: Interview with Jonathan Schwartz, Sun president and CEO (Q&A), 2005-02-15.
NASA crafts open source license: (News Story), 2004-04-22.

Operating Systems:

The struggle to conform: The challenge of the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (Feature), 2008-02-14.
Planning for Longhorn's harvest: Evaluating Microsoft's new server operating system (Feature), 2007-07-12.
Is Solaris truly open source? Corporate versus grass roots open source (Blog Entry), 2007-06-12.
The OS: Fat or thin?: The future of the operating system (Feature), 2007-12-07.
Ready for Y2K7: The hidden glitch with changing daylight-saving time (Blog Entry), 2007-01-08.
Vista stack not so new: OS uses a seasoned TCP stack (Blog Entry), 2006-12-13.
Vista: Don't overindulge: Despite vital new features, experts caution agencies to go slowly when rolling out Microsoft's new OS (Feature), 2006-10-16.
Thinking 64-bit Vista: Think security: (Sidebar), 2006-10-18.
Eclipse: Write Once, use a lot: Eclipse as a runtime platforms (Sidebar), 2006-08-22.
Why we don't defrag Unix: Unix stores files differently than Windows (Blog Entry), 2006-08-06.
Brian Stevens | Performance boost virtually assured: Interview with Brian Stevens, Red Hat Inc. chief technology officer (Q&A), 2005-12-07.

Processors:

Multicore does not mean equal core: Not all cores perform equally on a multicore chip, researchers find. (Online News Story), 2008-12-22.
Decoding AMD's new Opteron model numbers: (Blog Entry), 2006-08-16.
Battle of the low-power chips: What is powwering the emerging netbook market (Tech Brief), 2008-06-15.
Locking into Intel's vPro: How Intel's computer management technology locks in customers (Blog Entry), 2008-06-06.
DOD tackles multicore computing: New high performance computing initiative focuses on software (Sidebar), 2008-01-03.
Itanium the speedy encryptor: (Tech Brief), 2006-09-07.
Multicore challenges: (Tech Brief), 2006-04-28.
Mercury Computer pitches game processor for military use: Reusing the Cell processor (Tech Brief), 2006-03-16.
Ask the Professor: Reconfigurable Computing: (Sidebar), 2005-10-19.
Reconfigurable chips could accelerate HPC: New systems from Cray, SGI offer performance boost but require expertise (Feature), 2005-10-19.
Needed: self-configuring networks : Interview with DARPA's Timothy Gibson (Q&A), 2004-11-17.
SGI tinkers with hybrid computer architecture: Scalar and vector on one dye (Online News Story), 2004-04-05.
Coprocessors could be a supercomputer alternative: Supercomputer on a PCI card (Online News Story), 2003-12-26.

Programming Languages:

How to write apps for multicore processors: (Feature), 2009-06-10.
Does parallel processing require new languages? Or could existing languages be modified (Blog Entry), 2009-06-10.
Best practices for getting Java to work for multicore processors: Will it be actors or STMs? (Online), 2009-06-04.
Double duty for video cards: How GPUs are being reused for hardcore number-crunching (Blog Entry), 2009-06-10.
Abandon all hope, Oracle Forms developer shops: Oracle urges a move to Fusion (Online), 2009-05-13.
Batch processing: When batch processing still makes sense (Blog Entry), 2008-05-13.
Fortress does the math: The modern-day replacement for Fortran (Blog Entry), 2008-05-06.
Why so many bugs? The complexity of software programs (Blog Entry), 2008-10-30.
Java seeking closure on closures: Is this feature too powerful for most Java programmers? (Online News Story), 2008-05-08.
The return of ADA: An old programming language answers today's security woes (Feature), 2008-04-11.
The prescient Amdahl: The trick of programming multicore processors (Blog Entry), 2008-01-09.
Annotating Java in Spring: Annotations for Java (Tech Brief), 2007-07-18.
Ruby's easy but Java's quicker: The appeal of scripting langauges does not include speed (Blog Entry), 2007-06-20.
March of the Java scripting languages: (Feature), 2007-06-15.
Eclipse vs. NetBeans: Which IDE is best for Java? (Blog Entry), 2007-04-17.
Java coders get Groovy language: (Tech Brief), 2007-05-04.
Ruby won't trump Java: Experts say... (Tech Brief ), 2006-10-04.
Raising kids and building Perl: Larry Wall's 2006 State-of-the-Onion speech (Blog Entry), 2006-09-29.
Software's total Eclipse: NASA, others find the open-source Eclipse development program is a working foundation for apps (Feature), 2006-08-22.
Don't say J2EE: Java Enterprise Edition renamed (Tech Brief), 2006-07-20.
Not only the new glitters: The beauty of the Bash shell (Blog Entry), 2006-07-10.
Net-centric approach creates a software challenge: New way of thinking about programming (News Story), 2004-08-27.
Sun's McNealy: Java won't be open source: The battle over open sourcing Java (Online News Story), 2004-03-24.

Project management:

Schedule extensions hot, overtime not: When software projects take longer to execute than expected (Chart), 2009-02-09.
Beware the thermocline: How information flows within an organization (Blog Entry), 2008-06-17.
The 10 Percent rule of system upgrades: Don't bite off more than you can chew (Blog Entry), 2007-11-14.

Search engines:

Dataspaces poised to be next big thing from Google. 2009-08-31.
Programming the search engine: Google's first venture into semantic search (Blog Entry), 2007-05-30.
Search and enjoy: Search companies try new techniques for understanding subtle distinctions within gigantic piles of data (Feature), 2007-04-27.
Smart search: Advanced search engines link many data sources (Feature), 2004-08-20.
Deep Web: The making of Science.gov (Case Study), 2004-06-18.

Security:

Denial-of-service-attack worries dominate Cisco patching: (Online News Story), 2009-09-25.
Apple security: Myth or magic? (Blog Entry), 2009-01-30.
NIST sets rules for PIV cards: Computer card for building access (Tech Brief), 2009-02-09.
SSL certs busted: European security researchers have demonstrated a weakness in a hash algorithm widely used for creating digital certificates to secure Web sites and sign e-mails. (Online News Story), 2008-12-31.
Security is no secret: SE Linux and NSA's Flask architecture (Feature), 2008-07-15.
The new weakest links: The vulnerabilities of Web applications (Feature), 2008-06-10.
Tools for the hacker, tools for the defender: Hacker tools (Sidebar), 2008-06-10.
Sniffing out Passwords on the Web: Without SSL, it's easier than you'd think (Sidebar), 2008-06-10.
Calling users donkeys and other security woes of AJAX: (Sidebar), 2008-01-18.
SNMP not bedeviled after all: Tech Brief on a security vulnerability (Blog Entry), 2008-06-20.
The financial fraud security model: (Blog Entry), 2008-05-19.
The reverse Turing Test: Using AI to fight spam (Blog Entry), 2008-05-18.
Is SELinux leveling multi-level security: Open source takes on trusted computing (Blog Entry), 2007-11-08.
Is anti-spyware always on your side? Who owns your computer? (Blog Entry), 2007-07-20.
Assessing firmware vulnerability: Devices are the new security threat (Blog Entry), 2007-03-01.
Snag in secure Solaris: Migration from Trusted Solaris could be problematic (Blog Entry), 2007-01-19.
A cheap trick from the security vendors? Does Microsoft PatchGuard cross the line? (Blog Entry), 2006-10-09.
PGP challenges disk wiping study: What PGP software erases--and what it doesn't (Blog Entry), 2006-09-22.
Disk cleansing 102: Disk cleaners that don't do what they should (Tech Brief), 2006-08-23.
The debate over Linux security modules: (Feature), 2006-03-15.
Controlled Chaos: Homeland Security's R&D branch has been attacking its own test networks to help prevent future cyberattacks. (Feature), 2005-08-25.
Sun to discontinue Trusted Solaris: In favor of Trusted Extensions (Online News Story), 2005-10-06.

Semantic Web:

The Web\'s next act: A worldwide database: Tim Berners-Lee says government could lead the way (Feature story), 2009-11-09.
Can your computer read a Web page without your help? Soon it might: (Blog Entry), 2009-10-28.
A Data Reference Model for a new era: Semantic group calls for a chattier data reference model (Online News Story), 2009-02-18.
Context is everything: The goal of semantic interoperability (Feature), 2008-02-14.
Oracle tackles the context conundrum: Oracle ingests RDF (Sidebar), 2008-02-14.
You got your folksonomy in my ontology: Formal and informal data tagging (Blog Entry), 2007-04-27.
Hooking up with RDF: Inferring from incomplete information (Tech Brief), 2006-02-14.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA):

Microsoft's Oslo initiative: Microsoft's SOA plan (Sidebar), 2007-12-07.
Malcolm Fry | Enterprise architecture, European style: ITIL expert (Q&A), 2006-07-27.
Who Will Pay For These Shared Services? Cost-saving across agencies (Blog Entry), 2006-07-06.
Avoid the stupid SOA approach: Talk with Grady Booch (Q&A), 2006-07-06.
At your service: Forget buying software; build your next application from existing components (Feature), 2006-04-21.
SOA defined, finally: OASIS standardizes IT architecture definition (Tech Brief), 2004-10-06.

Social Networking:

Twitter takes wing: among govies (Feature), 2009-04-20.
Tweeting 101: The basics of Twitter (Blog Entry), 2009-04-14.
Twitter tools: Tweeting made even easier (Sidebar), 2009-04-16.
Intellipedia suffers midlife crisis: Service wants formal commitment from intell agencies (Online News Story), 2009-02-18.
Working knowledge: The origins of Intellipedia (Feature), 2008-10-20.
Social networks hold the keys to your network: The security dangers of Facebook et al (Blog Entry), 2008-01-24.
Microformats get real: The value of tightly-defined datasets (Blog Entry), 2007-01-15.
Wikipedia comes clean quick: Self-correcting behavior (Blog Entry), 2006-10-28.
Wiki: The Etymology: A talk with Wiki pioneer Ward Cunnigham (Q&A), 2006-08-22.
The amazing Wikis: Introduction to the wonders of Wiki (Feature), 2006-08-16.
Running a Wiki: Evaluating a Wiki for wicked purposes (Sidebar), 2006-08-16.

Storage:

Towns host each other's recovery data: The combo of fiber optics, virtualization and SANs make for a flexible backup plan, two Tennessee towns learn (Online news story), 2009-11-10.
The bottom line of solid-state storage: Going all-digital for data storage (Feature), 2009-06-29.
Mirroring is not backup; backup is not archiving: Get your backup plan in place. (Blog Entry), 2009-01-06.
Prefetching saves time, energy: USENIX study on hard drive prefetching (Online News Story), 2008-07-08.
Most network data sits untouched: Study shows how data is accessed over time (Online News Story), 2008-07-01.
NSA aims for secure access to storage: Flask applied to NFS. (Tech Brief), 2008-03-14.
Linux stratification: Not keeping the OSI levels separated (Blog Entry), 2007-05-08.
DVDs, we hardly knew ya....: Blu-ray or HD-DVD (Sidebar), 2006-03-17.
IRS audited on its poor use of storage arrays : (Online), 2005-12-05.
The little cable that could: Serial ATA disks (Feature), 2005-07-12.
NASA, we have cheap storage: The appeal of iSCSI storage (Feature), 2005-05-18.
NIST expert: Don't max out DVD disks: Leave 10 percent empty for safety (Online News Story), 2005-03-18.
Start-up debuts holographic storage device: Two terabytes on a disc (Online News Story), 2005-03-10.
Texas county puts IP SAN to work: (Case Study), 2004-09-03.
Brookhaven deploys virtual tape backup system: Sepaton tape arrays (Online News Story), 2004-08-26.
Blu-ray: The next generation of disk: (Sidebar), 2004-06-18.
Network Appliance deploys new RAID technique: RAID-DP (Online News Story), 2004-05-24.
Data to go: ATF gives field agents "mobile workplace" with DVDs (Case Study), 2004-06-18.

Supercomputing:

Sandia supercomputer boots a million virtual machines: Work to provide foundation for studying botnets (Online News Story), 2009-08-04.
DARPA investigates extreme supercomputing: (Online News Story), 2009-06-29.
The fastest computers are going hybrid: The shift in supercomputer architecture (Tech Brief), 2008-12-15.
What coders can learn from supercomputing: The Message Passing Interface (Sidebar), 2008-01-03.
A benchmark of its own: Defense Department's own metrics for high-performance computing (Feature), 2007-08-07.
Super models: Energy puts its power to use on high-resolution modeling programs (Feature), 2007-02-04.
Top500.org: Clock rate is dead: A different kind of processing (Blog Entry), 2006-11-16.
High speed interconnects: Interconnect speed is key to high-performance computing (Feature), 2006-03-03.
Wu Feng | New frontiers in high-end computing: (Q&A), 2006-02-16.
What good are DoD's supercomputers? Study finds high-performance software is lacking (Feature), 2005-08-05.
The inside story of the Beowulf saga: Interview with Donald Becker (Q&A), 2005-04-13.
Which test is best: The limitations of Linpack (Feature), 2004-11-17.
Experts want supercomputing resources pooled: (News Story), 2004-07-31.
How the Navy times its weather forecast computing workload: Behind every Navy weather forecast is the complex task of coordinating a sea of applications at government weather centers. (Case Study), 2004-07-29.
System X designers beat the odds: Interview with Srinidhi Varadarajan, an assistant professor of computer science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Q&A), 2004-07-14.

Telephony:

Octel demise bodes well for IP telephony: Retiring old equipment (Blog Entry), 2007-06-11.

User interface:

Google: Enterprise software too difficult to use? All software should be as simple as use as Google's search service (Blog Entry), 2006-05-17.

Virtualization:

Virtualization for your DMZ: Could virtualization work for software-based multi-level security environments? (Sidebar), 2008-07-23.
Securing the virtual world: Virtualization security (Feature), 2008-07-15.
VMware pioneers decoupled dynamic analysis: Analysis through virtualization (Online News Story), 2008-06-26.
The server that wasn't: Agencies are exploring OS virtualization to get more out of their systems (Feature), 2006-05-17.
Virtualization for trusted computing? A new use for virtualization (Blog Entry), 2006-04-16.
NARA conference demonstrates emulation technologies: How to read material in outdated formats (Online News Story), 2004-11-18.

Web:

GSA to debut link shortener by year's end: New service built on the Drupal open-source content management system (Online News Story), 2009-11-05.
Resource description tool can add smarts to your Web pages: Combioning XHTML with RDF (GCN), 2009-10-23.
The long road to HTML 5: New version will bring the Web into the modern era—eventually (Feature), 2009-08-31
10 great government Web sites Round II : Richer, deeper, more interactive! (Feature), 2009-07-27.
W3C investigates possible eGov standards: (Online News Story), 2009-04-01.
Google's Chrome browser : A work-in-progress (Feature), 2008-09-10.
10 great government Web sites: (Feature), 2008-08-25.
The Web page as database: The possibilities provided by XHTML (Tech Brief), 2008-02-28.
Is the Web losing its edge: Rich Internet Application platforms proliferate (Blog Entry), 2007-12-03.
ColdFusion cooling off? Yesterday's Web authoring software (Tech Brief), 2007-04-17.
Web analytics go 2.0: (Tech Brief), 2007-07-23.
e-Gobierno, en Espanol: As the Hispanic population grows, agencies create separate Web sites to help reach out (Feature), 2006-10-03.
Is a targeted Web site a good thing? Web analytics tools give agencies a more precise picture of who is visiting their sites (Sidebar), 2006-10-03.
Love at first site: Building an effective Web site (Feature), 2006-01-18.
Copyright Office catches heat for IE-only Web site: Non-standards compliant (Online News Story), 2005-08-25.
Forest Service webcam is only "eye" close to Mount St. Helens: (Case Study), 2004-10-08.
Treat that Web content like laundrey: Separate static pages from dynamic ones (Online News Story), 2004-04-19.
Park Service turns to animation in the flash: Flas-based business apps (Case Study), 2004-02-18.

Web 2.0:

Remixing government data: Non-profits, citizens resung government data (Feature), 2009-04-30.
Could government keep pace with Kundra? New federal CIO ushers in cloud computer, Web 2.0 (Blog Entry), 2009-03-05.
Mashup city: Washington D.C.'s experiment with technology and the public (Blog Entry), 2009-02-04.
Molly O'Neill, EPA CIO: The EPA goes Web 2.0. (Q&A ), 2008-02-05.
The story behind Ajax: How this popular Web technology came about (Blog Entry), 2006-08-03.
Web developer's toolkit: Agencies adopt latest Web apps (Feature), 2006-07-12.
E-Rulemaking.com: Web tools could help populace better form new laws (Blog Entry), 2006-05-23.
Data scraping, Web 2.0 style: A talk with ChicagoCrime.org with Adrian Holovaty. (Blog Entry), 2006-04-16.
Feed the Network: Agencies catch on to RSS (Feature), 2004-11-17.

Web Services:

Vegas bets on BPEL: Workflow for the water pollution control facility (Case Study), 2008-04-24.
UBL Internationale: Europe takes to the Universal Business Language (Blog Entry), 2007-04-14.
D.C. hops on the bus: City uses Enterprise Service Bus (Case Study), http://gcn.com/Articles/2006/07/13/DC-hops-on-the-bus.aspx?p=1.
Sun offers Jini to open source community: New life as a Web service? (Blog Entry), 2006-04-16.
BPM to vanquish BPEL?: Battle of the workflow standards (Blog Entry), 2006-03-15.
Web services ready for third wave: Interview with Joseph Chiusano, Web Services Activist, Booze-Allen (Q&A), 2004-06-04.

XML:

W3C pulls plug on XHTML 2: Long live HTML 5 (Online News Story), 2009-07-10.
Slimmer XML is faster XML: (Blog Entry), 2009-05-05.
Nevada tags financial data: Using the XBRL extension (Online), 2009-05-19.
Protesting the angle bracket tax: XML verbosity (Blog Entry), 2008-06-11.
Streamlining XML: Moving XML faster with the EXI framework (Tech Brief), 2008-02-05.
DITA to that: A modular approach for training materials (Tech Brief), 2007-07-05.
Adobe plunges PDF into XML: Tomorrow's PDFs will be made of XML (Blog Entry), 2006-12-06.
XML office debate moves to look-and-feel: Appearance also a factor in data preservation (Blog Entry), 2006-07-17.
Tim Bray | No easy road to interoperability: Interview with Tim Bray, director of Web technologies for Sun Microsystems Inc. (Q&A), 2005-11-01.
SQL vs. XML in a database world: Interview with Jonathan Robie, XML evangelist (Q&A), 2005-03-25.
An XML registry is key to sharing data: Q&A with Owen Ambur (Q&A), 2005-02-04.
The promise of XML: Agencies make headway on tagging data but still need description tools (Feature), 2005-02-04.
XML standards battle is brewing over Navy's data-sharing plans: The choice over XSD or DTD (News Story), 2004-07-30.
OASIS tackles modular documentation: Work from the Darwin Information Typing Architecture group (Online News Story), 2004-04-23.
Taxonomy's not just design, it's an art: Interview with Michael Daconta (Q&A), 2004-02-03.
Agency taxonomies are a tall order, experts say: An agency building an enterprisewide taxonomy should expect to see more than a million categories within their design, (Online News Story), 2004-01-21.
Shopping without dropping: Defense Department uses ebXML for online store (Case Study), 2004-01-04.

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