IWL today announced a new patent licensing program for manufacturers and end users who use the technology of the Maxwell Patent. IWL is the owner of US patent number 7,310,316. The Maxwell Patent is directed to a test device placed between two or more nodes, in which the nodes communicate in conversations according to a predetermined protocol such as TCP/IP …

Several years ago, an Israeli company called Shunra Software, offered a network simulator product. The product’s purpose: to help IT staff verify the performance of apps and devices, prior to deployment in production networks. In 2016, HPE sold the “software division”, including the HP Network Simulator, to MicroFocus.

So where does that leave HP Network Simulator? …

When it was time for IWL to update its website look, information flow, and content, we realized that we needed to revisit our CMS decision, as well. Modern websites use Content Management Systems (CMS) to support the management and content of web pages in a structured and organized manner. We reviewed and ultimately used a new "bleeding edge" type of CMS: a Flat File CMS …

Last month I received a number of fun and friendly birthday wishes on Facebook. Though this was a sweet and kind gesture by each of the well-wishers, I felt guilty. That’s because … it was not my birthday! Facebook thinks my birthday is June 22, 1910, but the day, the month, and the year are all wrong.

So you may wonder: Why would I intentionally lie about my birthday on Facebook? …

Waze, the “…world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app” failed its users in the Santa Cruz, California area during the month of February 2017. These users who depend on Waze to find out traffic conditions and alternate routes were not able to do so. The same was true for Google Maps. For example, when traffic stalled for up to three hours, Waze and Google Maps happily reported that conditions were just fine …

How well is the documentation for a product written? What is the measure of “documentation efficiency”? Given a problem with trying to use a product feature, what is the probability that you can find the answer to the problem by looking in the documentation, without having to search through stackoverflow? …

This letter is a response to Tom Green’s article in the June 5, 2015 edition of Robotics Business Review: “Why are Too Few Females in Robotics? Could it Be the Robots?” I am female and I participated in the DARPA Robotics Finals. I was on the Degraded Communications team, a part of the infrastructure, not one of the robotics teams …

At a recent dinner, I found myself seated next to Guido van Rossum. While Guido is best known as the author of the Python programming language, I found his views on the open source software movement and the role of women in the movement very enlightening! …