Early Lessons in IT Leadership
Four new IT leaders share what they've learned in their roles. The bottom line? They love what they're doing, in spite of how tough it can be.
Stories by Gary H. Anthes
In the Web Lab
It was painful, a little like watching your child perform at her first piano recital. "The first one was difficult," says Meredith King, the marketing director at Request4Bid.com. "I was so scared."
GAO Raises Concerns Over Stock-Price Plans
Government auditors warned the U.S. Congress yesterday that computer systems used by the nation's top stock exchanges may have trouble handling the big increases in quote and trade traffic that will accompany the conversion of equities and options prices to a decimal format later this year.
Who's Controlling Cyberspace?
A Harvard law professor's new book warns that the Internet is losing its independence to commercial interests. That, he says, may invite regulation of cyberspace.
R&D Gems
You can almost hear the paradigms shifting way up in those ivory towers. At the University of Virginia, they're inventing a "worldwide virtual computer." At the University of California, it's a "planet-scale, self-organizing" system. And at Carnegie Mellon University, they call it an "invisible halo of computing."
Y2K Prophet Comes Down from Soapbox
Joe Boivin, who abandoned a promising career in banking to lead a crusade in Canada against the Y2K problem, has climbed down from his soapbox and turned his attention to family matters, admitting the problem was greatly overstated.
White House Lifts Most Blocks to Crypto Exports
The U.S. computer industry is applauding the Clinton administration's relaxation of restrictions on the export of strong encryption products but is complaining that new rules still leave in place too much red tape.
'Cyberterrorists' could be in your own backyard
To your list of year 2000 worries add the possibility that a disgruntled employee has put a virus or Trojan horses into your code as part of his Y2K "remediation" effort.
Institute Battles Cyberterrorism
To your list of year 2000 worries, add the possibility that a disgruntled employee has put a virus or Trojan horses into your code as part of his Y2K "remediation" effort.