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Programming the Grid: Distributed Software Components, P2P and Grid Web Services for Scientific Applications

Programming the Grid: Distributed Software Components, P2P and Grid Web Services for Scientific Applications

...widely distributed collection of resources to be tied together into a relatively seamless computing framework, teams of researchers can collaborate to solve problems that they... Read more

1 January, 2011

Gates wants information everywhere

...to home entertainment centres, TVs and portable devices. Touting what he called "seamless computing," Gates said in his keynote speech that Microsoft wants "to make... Read more

8 January, 2004 by David Becker

Gates: Seamless computing is the aim

...chairman earlier this week to talk about the lead-up to his "seamless computing" speech. Q: You've been talking about seamless computing at this... Read more

20 November, 2003 by Jai Singh
Cloud Control With Distributed Rate Limiting

Cloud Control With Distributed Rate Limiting

Today's cloud-based services integrate globally distributed resources into seamless computing platforms. Provisioning and accounting for the resource usage of these Internet... Read more

31 August, 2007
Microsoft's Mundie offers glimpse of computing future

Microsoft's Mundie offers glimpse of computing future

The research and strategy chief says 'spatial computing' will see people and sensors producing trillions of bits of data, with programmers scrambling to mask complexity Read more

26 September, 2008 by Dan Farber

Gates promotes isolation

Keeping systems separate is the most important security technique, says Microsoft's chairman Read more

28 June, 2004 by Lisa Simmons

Gates sees 'mini bubble'

...the future of technology, centred on the digital home, networked devices and "seamless computing." Gates' comments follow recent filings for public offerings by several dot... Read more

29 March, 2004 by Stefanie Olsen

Gates talks up new speech and mobile products

...Gates added that all the efforts announced Wednesday are part of a seamless computing theme that involves having information available through applications that connect hardware... Read more

25 March, 2004 by Ina Fried and Richard Shim

Gates keynote emphasises security

...on Sunday to usher in a new era of computing he dubbed "seamless computing." Gates' annual Comdex address, his 20th, was designed to outline the... Read more

17 November, 2003 by Ina Fried

Q&A: Gates beefs up Longhorn vision

In an interview at Microsoft's developer conference, Bill Gates explains his vision for Longhorn - and why he is confident that IT departments will continue to invest in Windows Read more

29 October, 2003 by Mike Ricciuti

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