Data warehousing and the Web
Organizational countercultures, radical paradigms and living libraries—this is the language of data warehousing. It's all about the impact of the Web. "In the future, the world is going to be composed of content sitting in data warehouses, and the mechanism for distributing, accessing and loading will be nets—intra-, Inter- and extra-," said Ramon Barquin, founder and former president of the Data Warehousing Institute in Washington. "It's part of a paradigm shift from a processing-centric world to
Computerized valet kept tabs on astronaut Glenn
When John Glenn donned a wired vest and head gear for a sleep experiment on his recent space shuttle mission, he had a helper, a kind of computerized valet to make sure everything was properly connected and activated. Glenn's helper was an artificial intelligence system called the Principal Investigator in a Box, developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. PI in a Box acts as
Readying for 2000: One agency's story
When Federal Aviation Administration chief Jane Garvey and Ray Long, head of the agency's year 2000 program, board a plane Dec. 31, 1999, for their much-publicized flight across the continent, it will be neither a rash publicity stunt nor a stunning act of bravado, the two officials have repeatedly said.
Test of year 2000 puts administrators on the line
At the Social Security Administration, they call it Day 1. It won't be an ordinary work day at SSA's offices, that's for sure. For one thing, Day 1 will be a Saturday. It also will be New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2000. Kathleen Adams, SSA assistant deputy commissioner for systems, will be there through the holiday weekend, verifying that the agency's systems are running smoothly—that, when the clock struck midnight, no computers mistook '00
Feds' changing tastes mark '98 surveys
This year's GCN surveys resulted in power plays among some of government's big contractors. IBM Corp. drew the highest overall ratings for quality in two GCN Product Preference Survey hardware categories: notebook computers and PC Card modems. Corel Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. Corel's WordPerfect and Adobe FrameMaker tied for the top honors in desktop publishing software. Adobe Illustrator 7.0 and CorelDraw 7 were first and second, respectively, among six contenders in the graphics and illustration software
Military exchange shops savvy
The Army and Air Force Exchange Service is one of the world's biggest retail operations. "We are a monster," said Ovidio Trevino, section chief and supervisory computer systems analyst at the service's headquarters in Dallas. Boasting 8.7 million customers at military installations throughout the United States, Europe and the Pacific, and 50,000 employees, AAFES stores earned $337 million last year from sales of everything from home electronics to jewelry.
Notebooks are main PCs for some feds
—Bill Wall, supervisory systems analyst, Navy Fleet Material Support Office, Mechanicsburg, Pa., on his Compaq notebook "The keyboard is a problem for me. I'm not a very good typist, and I've got big hands.'' —Dan Grispino, financial specialist for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service in Cleveland, on the Dell notebook he shares with his office mates
Air Force takes aim at safety with satellite systems
Deep inside Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, Air Force personnel in gray flight suits gaze at computer screens 24 hours a day, looking for signs of unidentified aircraft and missile launches. They're eyeballing data from 220 North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) radar and satellite warning systems, sent by two or more means to ensure delivery.
DOD's new frontiers - SPOTLIGHT
Imagine if you will a robotic rucksack—a rugged, highly mobile, computerized device dutifully trailing an officer around a 21st century battlefield and carrying most of the load. A kind of digital Jeeves. Welcome to the world of the Defense Department's new high-tech frontier. The robotic rucksack was one of the scores of ideas—real and surreal—conjured up for warfighters of the future by players in the Army's avant-garde Technology Seminar Game, staged recently at the Army War
Feds find uses for cameras, scanners
"It's a super little camera. We've used the daylights out of it.'' —Ronald Phelps, project manager, John F. Kennedy Space Center, about Ricoh's RDC-2 digital camera "We've had [an Epson 1200C scanner] for about a year and a half. However, we just started using it not too long ago because we didn't have anyone who knew how to use it and the software that goes with it. And I don't have the extra time
PRODUCT PREFERENCE SURVEY
—Gene Best, systems administrator, Marine Design Center, Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia "When AutoCAD went from Version 12 to 14, they changed all the icons to something different. They do the same thing, but they're different.'' —Louis Ackerman, electrical engineer, Marine Corps, Parris Island, S.C. None of this no pain, no gain nonsense for feds who use computer-aided design software: They must produce complex engineering and scientific diagrams, and they want using
Division's IT leader manages on the go
Marine Online will let users handle administrative tasks through the Web and e-mail. ARLINGTON, Va.—Just try catching up with Maj. Darrell Philpot. If you're lucky, you'll find him at one of several office phone numbers. If not, ring his cell phone. Or try e-mail. Philpot, director of the information technology Branch of the Marines' Manpower and Reserve Affairs Information Systems Division, is perpetually on the move, a roving cyclone of energy
SPOTLIGHT - View from the trenches
What do trenches have to do with people who work in the realm of federal information systems? The word trench derives from the Middle English trenche, meaning a track cut through a wood or in the ground. Many modern locutions using the word issue from the Great War, 1914 to 1918, where muddy trenches were the leading edge of the battle on the Western Front. Thus, the phrase "in the trenches" connotes being on the front
Graphics and illustration software
—Robbie Smith, information management officer, the Army's concept analysis research facility, Bethesda, Md. "It's harder finding training on [Lotus Freelance Graphics 96] than it is on, say, Microsoft products. We've developed in-house training for it because there isn't as much commercial training available for Lotus products." —Paul Braunschweig, system engineer and team leader, Environmental Protection Agency, Denver
FEDSIM changes its workflow
Processing procurements at the General Service Administration's Federal Systems Integration and Management Center was fraught with peril--until officials decided to create a virtual processing system. FEDSIM, one of four cost centers in the Federal Technology Service's Office of Information Technology Integration, provides IT goods and services to federal agencies nationwide on a cost-reimbursable basis.
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