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2014 Stevens Honor Award – Grandfather of the Internet, Dr. David J. Farber

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In 1971, at University of California at Irvine that Farber and several colleagues hit on the idea of distributed computer systems or DCS, multiple microcomputers running and sharing data and software with one another remotely using token ring technology, an early forerunner of cloud computing.

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Good, Better, Best Software Testing Tools

ForAllSecure

What are the defenses that we have against the software vulnerabilities? Despite this shortcoming, SAST has its place in the software development lifecycle, and it remains a recommended preventative practice at the opposite end from static application security testing is dynamic application security testing or DAST. Static Analysis.

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Fast-growing Qualtrics files to go public at valuation of up to $14.4B

GeekWire

The 18-year-old software company was acquired by SAP for $8 billion two years ago, just days before it was slated to go public. It posted a net loss for the first nine months of the year of $258 million. billion back in 2014. billion, according to a report by CNBC. That was up 31% over the same period last year.

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VMworld 2014 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, CA. This leads into a discussion of the software-defined data center (SDDC). Hardware partners for EVO:RAIL include Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Inspur, Net One, and Supermicro. VMworld 2014 Day 1 Keynote. Similar Posts: VMworld 2012 Keynote, Day 1.

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Biotech companies fuel IPO boom in Washington state over the past year

GeekWire

In a region better known for its tech startups and legions of software engineers, it’s biotech companies that have helped lead a recent IPO boom in the state of Washington, accounting for eight of 11 firms joining the public markets via a traditional IPO over the past year. based biotech company went public. Absci Photo).

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Perfecting Operations Through Machine Learning

CIO Business Intelligence

CEMEX was faced with a flood of false positive alerts from its system monitoring software. Ultimately, the company deployed software and best practices to dramatically cut the false positives for improved monitoring and a better experience for employees and customers. Riddle me this! When is too much of a good thing not good?

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Health tech company Accolade goes public at $1.2B valuation in Seattle’s first IPO of 2020

GeekWire

The company has been led since 2015 by Singh , who previously co-founded travel expense software giant Concur, which sold to SAP for $8.3 billion in 2014. The company posted a net loss of $51.4 million for the 2020 fiscal year, an improvement from its net loss of $56.5 million the year before. Its revenue of 132.5

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