Category Archives: History of Computing!

Cloud Computing: Is It Powerful and Can It Lead to Bankruptcy?

This is the title of a presentation I gave at the Space Telescope Science Institute on February 23.  You can view the talk as an  STScI Webcast Presentation. I talked about a brief history of cloud computing, then talked about … Continue reading

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Cloud Computing Is Not A New Idea!

While doing the research for a talk on cloud computing at Space Telescope next week,  my eyes were opened to the history of cloud computing. We all know, of course, of the commercial cloud offerings of the Amazon Elastic Compute … Continue reading

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