White House homeland security adviser John Brennan last month said the White House was exploring whether to issue an executive order to protect the nation's critical computer infrastructure, but gave no details on the timing or possible content of such an order.
Davis, Kumiega and Van Vliet point out that automated finance unites three professions financial engineers, software engineers and computer engineers but has no one taking ultimate responsibility.
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Lou Gerstner , a former RJR Nabisco executive, had no computer or technology experience, but he had a very successful tenure at IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ).
"This is a substantial hit for computer-aided detection, but in no way is it dead, " Hall says.
As Apple's iMac computer - which has a handle but no floppy drive and comes in fruit colors - continues to win new customers, an industry rethink is underway.
His computer and phone were missing but there are no signs of forced entry, police say.
But the neat thing about this, Farai, is no computer is needed.
This computer has no internal power supply, but when a specially designed reader sends out a radio signal, a tiny antenna draws power from the wave and uses it to wake the computer up.
The software isn't bad--in fact, you could argue it's the hot-selling Macintosh computer's secret weapon--but no one was gasping in awe as Schiller showed off the ability to add a stone texture to bar charts in Numbers, Apple's spreadsheet software.
Trades will occur on a computer in one of the three countries, but will no longer be identifiably German, French or Swiss.
Most big computer makers no longer build what they sell, but outsource production to huge, albeit lesser-known providers of manufacturing services such as Flextronics or Solectron.
He was warned it broke the council's computer policy but because the film was for private use the matter went no further.
But these spiders and fans can only be found by eye - there's no computer that can pick them out, and they change over time.
So the movement of work abroad in search of lower labour costs is no longer confined to manufacturing but now also includes white-collar jobs, from computer programming to copywriting and back-office legal tasks.
When all the finishing touches are complete, the master copy of the movie will reside not as a film negative but as a computer file, several terabytes in size (exactly how many terabytes, no one yet knows).
But a month passed after he took his computer in for repairs, and there was still no charge from Apple.
Many investors are breathing a sigh of relief that 2010 is drawing to a close with stocks up 10%, but the year was by no means without financial flubs and mini-panics, often caused by computer trading algorithms gone awry.
But the real goal is to have nanoscale transistors ready when silicon chips can no longer deliver annual increases in computer speed.
In its findings, Interpol concluded that Colombia did not conform to internationally recognised principles for handling electronic evidence but also that "no user files have been created, modified or deleted on any of the eight Farc computer exhibits following their seizure on 1 March 2008".
But there's no doubting the need for accessible technical assistance beyond those extraordinary tomes you see geeks carting out of computer shops.
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