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Weighing in at just 4 ounces, the Palm Vx has the same anodized aluminum exterior and LCD screen as the Palm V handheld, yet it has four times the memory of its predecessor, giving you more speed and more storage. To submit a tip, contact us at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. For more information and contest rules, click on http://search390.techtarget.com/tipsContest/0,289488,sid10_prz550161_cts550144,00.html ======================================================== TODAY'S WEB ENABLING TIP: ======================================================== Will IBM's project eLiza do little for eBusiness? Jim Keohane --- with apologies to 'enry 'iggins You may have seen some of the recent eBuzz about IBM committing big eBucks to its Project eLiza. Looks like eLiza will do a lot! Computerworld 4/27: In IBM's vision of the not-too-distant future, server farms will protect themselves from malicious hackers, heal themselves when something breaks, upgrade themselves as needed and do whatever else is needed to continue operating without human intervention. View http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0%2C1199%2CNAV47-68_STO60023%2C00.html. Gartner Group 5/7: In addition to self-healing, eLiza also encompasses dynamic workload management (WLM) across heterogeneous systems, super-scalable clusters (potentially tens of thousands of microprocessors) and distributed server management for hundreds -- if not thousands -- of servers from anywhere. Search for "eLiza" at www.gartner.com. IBM 4/27: "Customers, like those in our Advanced e-Business Council, have been telling us that to cope with all the coming technology and data volumes they will have to absorb over the next few years, it is mandatory that we build self-managing capabilities into the systems we sell them," said Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM's vice president of Technology and Strategy in Somers, N.Y. View http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/introducing/eliza/index.html. IBM 5/1: You start off with IBM's Intelligent Resource Director (IRD), currently consisting of LPAR'ing, Workload Management (WLM) and Parallel Sysplex Clustering. Extend IRD out to diverse systems to get Heterogeneous Workload Management (HWM). Jobs can be distributed throughout the enterprise, assigned different classes of work, effect tuning parameters for both network and operating systems along the way to avoid bottlenecks and meet performance goals. View http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/ird/ird_overview.html. InfoWorld: It's an effort by IBM to commit billions of dollars and considerable research personnel to extending mainframe-class techniques to e-business infrastructure. View http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/03/13/010313hnhorn.xml. View http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/04/27/010427hneliza.xml. View http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/05/01/010501hneliza.xml. Wall Street Journal 4/27: William Zeitler, vice president of IBM's server group, which makes large computers, said ... companywide spending will be several billion dollars over a number of years. The effort, dubbed Project eLiza, will build on high-reliability technology used in IBM mainframe computers, which can run for years without crashing. Dow Jones News Service 4/27: Ultra-vigilant security also will be a hallmark of eLiza, as will as backup systems that kick in whenever the server senses a problem with a component, IBM said. ... The eLiza project also will incorporate findings from the company's other major research projects. IBM's Software Rejuvenation, for instance, attempts to predict when software is about to crash and automatically takes corrective action. AFX News -- UK 4/27: Over time, the eLiza software builds up a picture of a computer system's "behavioral patterns", allowing it to preempt an outage when it identifies warning signs that the system may break down. Conceding that the elements of the eLiza strategy can already be seen in some of IBM's mainframe computers, David Turek, IBM's vice-president of deep computing, said the organic systems he envisages are a "quantum leap" from today's systems. The Times of India 5/1: Unveiled late last week, the project code-named Eliza, seeks to create computers that act much like biological entities. ... In the context of project Eliza, IBM's bosses have reportedly discounted the emergence of a scenario where computers begin to enslave the human race. But it surely wouldn't have escaped their notice that "self awareness" - which the project Eliza developed computer is going to have, is only a short step from "consciousness" that characterise all forms of living beings. PC Dealer 5/9: Bill Zeitler, head of IBM's eServer group, said: "The object of this project is to give users the power to manage environments that are hundreds of times more complicated and broadly distributed than the ones we see today." IBM-MAIN 5/9: "The speaker was the distinguished Peter Baeuerle from IBM Germany. His reputation as an expert in mathematics and artificial intelligence is well known. The WLM group is lucky to have him." -- Edward E. Jaffe. WIRED Magazine: One focus of eLiza will be to create servers that will, according to IBM's press release, "protect themselves with super-vigilant security technology." The name eLiza -- short for electronic lizard -- is derived from Wladawsky-Berger's frequent references in speeches to a book by Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines, which estimates that the IBM supercomputer, Deep Blue, is about as intelligent as the average lizard. View http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,43299,00.html. NetWork World 4/30: As soon as next year IBM servers may be able to: *Activate built-in redundant components when failures occur. *Automatically balance bandwidth or application capacity when necessary. *Monitor for intrusions. *Cluster with other servers on the fly to balance workload and for failover, redundancy and increased availability. *Automatically configure and install operating systems, applications and data. View http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0430ibmserver.html. Future AI: In one of its most ambitious projects ever, IBM unveiled a multibillion-dollar research offensive Thursday to create business computers capable of doing simple tasks on their own. Over the next 5 years or so, Big Blue will marshal hundreds of scientists and pour several billion dollars into Project Eliza, short for "e-lizard." The name comes from IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue, which had the brainpower-equivalent of a lizard. Eliza's offspring will have even more processing power, IBM says. The aim: to create "intelligent" computers capable of handling simple tasks, such as correcting system failures and warding off attacks from hackers. View http://www.futureai.com/futureai/988511303/index_html. NY Times 4/27: In the nearer term, portions of the project will focus on hastening the deployment of technology already used in IBM mainframes into cheaper computers, which often operate in clusters. IBM said the expertise it had accumulated in building mainframes that work for years without failing and with minimal supervision should give it an advantage in building adaptive behavior into less complex equipment. View http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/27/technology/27BLUE.html?searchpv=site09. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In last year's "Legacizing the Web" tip, I suggested it is the mainframe that is encroaching on the Internet and not vice versa. This tip further buttresses that observation. Mainframe-class robustness, scalability, failover and throughput are being extended to the entire enterprise and beyond. Prepare for it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For extra credit: Weizenbaum, J., "ELIZA -- A computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine", Communications of the ACM 9(1):36-45, 1966. View http://i5.nyu.edu/~mm64/x52.9265/january1966.html. Autonomous Agents 1997. View http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/winter96/0436.html. Weisenbaum, Weintraub, etc. The first ELIZA AI software. View http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/ehrich1.html. Download WinAlice, the latest ELIZA AI variant! Latest Loebner award winner (Turing challenge). View http://c.alicebot.com/users/jbikker. Download original ELIZA for DOS or AZILE for Mac! View http://www.download.com. Note: Stanley Kubrick's "2001 ? A Space Odyssey" has as nemesis HAL, the self-aware supercomputer. Bump H-A-L up to next letter in alphabet and you get I-B-M! Note: Steven Spielberg's "AI" is due out in theaters soon. It's the mid-21st century and man has developed a new type of computer that is aware of its own existence ? IMDB. Note: Loral denies its skynet.com (recently awarded ISO 9002 certification) worldwide satellite network is in discussion with either IBM or Schwarzenegger about upcoming "Terminator 3." {smile} Jim Keohane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is president of New York consulting company Multi-Platforms, Inc. His company specializes in commercial software development/consulting with emphasis on cross-platform and performance issues. ======================================================================= DID YOU LIKE THIS TIP? Why not let us know? 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