Description: Software is shaping a world in which there is more information to measure and more risk to manage. An increasing reliance on software as infrastructure of public and private enterprise will create demand for new forms of insurance products focused on systemic failure. Machine-originated risk will create a novel market and equally new challenges for quantifying, pricing, and pooling risk.

Description: This article is about Content Management Systems and other software to help build a web site for a small business.

Description: The editor introduces a new newsletter format and asks for ideas for articles.

Description: Welcome to the third edition of Cool Tech. This is where the author points out cool things on the Web.

Description: This article shares our experience of using the cloud to do large-scale parallel processing and discusses some background regarding the cloud.

Description: The barrier between humans and machines continues to blur, but curiously, this may have been prediction thousands of years ago in ancient myths. This article looks to how some of the early legends are becoming manifest in modern technology, particularly in the area of elder care. From automation, to humanoid assistants, to mind clones will the age of technology bring a new utopia?

Description: This article discusses errors in spreadsheets, their implications and ways to mitigate them.

Description: Feature article about the appropriate use of spreadsheets.