According to one of our motor cycling enthusiast software developers, the majority of Harley Davidson owners are likely to be 45-year-old accountants from Ann Arbor, Michigan. In fact, a minute on Google brings up the stat that the majority of motorcycle owners are on average 41 years old, and earn $77,714 in annual household income. The reason these ‘unlikely’ Harley Davidson owners give is that nothing... read more

While watching an episode of Star Trek the other day, the opening title sequence in which Captain Kirk narrates, “These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds…to seek out new life and new civilizations…to boldly go where no man has gone before,” got me thinking. Why was the Enterprise only exploring and not discovering strange new worlds? The... read more

By posing fundamental questions about machine intelligence, Turing believed that human minds could one day be mimicked by electronic circuitry. In a theoretical paper published in 1936, Turing described an imaginary device, which would later become the electronic computer, behaving as if it were a human being and given problems to solve. The concept of the computer program grew directly out of this research, and the... read more

A common feature of current generation IT Event and Fault management systems is that you have to encode into the configuration of the system, a knowledge or representation of the logic that you use to manage the network, or device, or application. For example, a typical system management scenario is where you have a series of servers, routers and applications that you poll for specific... read more