Un poco de historia sobre seguridad

En [PDF] A Twenty-Five Year Perspective Karen Mercedes Goertzel y Booz Allen Hamilton trazan una panorámica sobre diversos temas relacionados con la seguridad informática, en el número del 25th Anniversary de CrossTalk.

Only in the past quarter century have efforts to understand and address the root causes of system security vulnerabilities evolved and coalesced into systematic efforts to improve software security assurance across government
and leading industry sectors.

En el mismo número, en [PDF] CrossTalk and Software-Past, Present and Future: A Twenty-Five Year Perspective David A. Cook y Stephen F. Austin hablan del desarrollo de programas en general. También muy interesante:

As CrossTalk celebrates its 25th anniversary, it is educational to see how
much software has changed and evolved over the lifetime of CrossTalk.

Seguramente el lector interesado encuentre valor en algunos otros artículos de ese número y de la revista en general.

11 tendencias en programación que hay que vigilar

En 11 programming trends to watch.

Las tendencias:

• Programming trend No. 1: The JVM is not just for Java anymore
• Programming trend No. 2: JavaScript is not just for JavaScript anymore
• Programming trend No. 3: No code is an island
• Programming trend No. 4: Plantations everywhere
• Programming trend No. 5: Openness retreats
• Programming trend No. 6: Bandwidth is no longer free
• Programming trend No. 7: Energy is no longer free, either
• Programming trend No. 8: Traditional education fades from relevance
• Programming trend No. 9: Accuracy fades as scalability trumps all
• Programming trend No. 10: Real parallelism begins to get practical for all
• Programming trend No. 11: GPUs trump CPUs

Para pensar un poco.