Profile of J. Nicholas Hoover

Senior Editor, InformationWeek Government

News & Commentary Posts: 1254

Articles by J. Nicholas Hoover
posted in October 2012

Hurricane Sandy: Government Data Tools Assist

10/31/2012
Federal, state, and local information technology and data are on the case in the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy.
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Energy Dept.'s Titan Supercomputer: Record Breaker?

10/29/2012
Oak Ridge National Laboratory turns on new 20-petaflop Titan supercomputer, which may be world’s most powerful.
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DOD Pushes Military's Mobile Strategy Forward

10/26/2012
Defense Department is serious about getting smartphones into soldiers' hands, according to new mobile device management and app store vendor solicitations.
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Humanoid Robot Challenge Kicks Off At DARPA

10/25/2012
Inventors compete to build DARPA robot that can use human hand tools, drive vehicles, and climb ladders in a disaster scenario.
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BlackBerry Loses Its Grip On Federal Government

10/24/2012
RIM's BlackBerry platform has maintained a strong following in government for years, but that is changing.
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White House Wants Ideas For Next Moonshot

10/11/2012
Think big: The Office of Science and Technology Policy and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are looking for the next 'grand challenge.'
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NSA's Big Data Platform Faces Enterprise Test

10/11/2012
Startup Sqrrl preps Accumulo data storage software to go commercial, teams with Hadoop provider Hortonworks to combine technologies.
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Amazon's Share Of Government Cloud Computing 'Accelerating'

10/10/2012
As Amazon announces new services for government customers, it says the 1,800 government and education customers that now use Amazon Web Services prove "rapid" adoption of its cloud computing products.
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NIST Scientist Wins Nobel For Quantum Computing Work

10/9/2012
National Institute of Standards and Technology scientist David Wineland shared a Nobel Prize for Physics for work that could help the development of powerful quantum computers.
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Jeff Bezos, U.S. Intelligence Invest In Quantum Computing

10/5/2012
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and In-Q-Tel have invested in D-Wave Systems, a company marketing what it calls the first commercial quantum computer.
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Obama Vs. Romney: 6 Tech Policy Differences

10/5/2012
With the 2012 election drawing near, InformationWeek Government compares the tech plans of President Obama and the Democrats and those of Governor Romney and the Republicans.
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'MegaDroid' Tests Android Security At City Scale

10/4/2012
Department of Energy launches MegaDroid, a network of 300,000 virtual Android devices, to study mobile security and stability at a city-sized scale.
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