With the Washington Capitals having made the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Phrase “Off Center” means something a bit different than it might have a week ago. Regardless I had a great time recording Mark Amtower’s… Broadcast of My Interview w/Mark Amtower – Amtower Off Center
For all those who are near the Washington Convention Center today and tomorrow there is an interesting conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization, http://govcloudconference.com/Events/2011/Home.aspx, Best of all, they reached back into ancient history, and asked me… Moving Into the Cloud – Practical Experience
Previously, I had written about a class at George Washington University to which the professor, Dr. Robert McCreight, invites me to be a guest lecturer on cyber-security from time to time. I posted a copy of… My GWU Discussion – Part 2 – What to do About Cybersecurity
Every year or so I am lucky to be invited by Dr. Robert McCreight who teaches a graduate class on National Security and Technology to be a guest lecturer on Cybersecurity.
Since the classes I teach at the University of Maryland and Syracuse University are on-line distance learning, it is always a treat for me to have actual live students in the same classroom as I am to interact with. This year the exchange of information was really great, Dr. McCreight has a wonderful class. For all of these activities, I deal with what I call the “avoidance of appearing like an idiot in front of people syndrome”, which forces me to at least to scan and keep up with the literature before the class is held.
While I am one of those people who learn best by doing, being able to talk to and/or discuss with bright students is still very helpful and fun to do.
I have posted my presentation below and during the next few weeks hope to write a few columns based on the later slides, of course I have still not written my last two posts I promised on cloud computing, as as usual what I plan to do with this blog and what actually happens continues to diverge.
My Guest Lecture at George Washington University on Cybersecurity
Francis Rose is a radio host for Federal News Radio, 1500am, http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=16. Francis has a show called In Depth which is broadcast from 1pm – 3pm every day. The focus of the show as the… Advice Needed for Federal IT Stories This Week
This morning in the Washington Post there was a column discussing the regular transition of political appointees, http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/fedcoach/2011/02/political-appointee-merry-go-round.html?hpid=smartliving. For those of you are are thinking of becoming a political appointee or wonder about the process,… Lessons From a Political CIO by Dan Mintz CIO, Department of Transportation
I have been spending time this afternoon working on my UMUC Contemporary Topics in Informatics class. One of the topics my students have been commenting on relates to information sharing. One of the questions I… A Passing Thought About Knowledge Management Systems
This morning I was discussing with some partners how to write winning proposals. I seemed to remember that I had talked before on this blog about proposals but upon searching around, found the only other… Writing Winning Proposals
I often refer to Leadership as being the ability to get people to do things when you are not in the room. For most of my professional career I did not particularly think about the… On Leadership
In my previous entry regarding Cloud Computing, I discussed briefly one of the major reasons why organizations are turning to the cloud, saving costs. I pointed out some of the issues involved in achievable that goal.
While I also consider the possibility of cost savings associated with Cloud Computing important, I believe other implications are more important in the long-term. I discuss a second one today, and will touch on two more in the next few blog entries.
When we start thinking about moving applications to the cloud it leads us to reconsider how we develop applications. This change in thinking has, as a foundation, the move to object oriented design, and has been encouraged by a change in conceptual ownership. I talk about both of these in this post.Cloud Computing Thoughts – Part II