André V. Mendes

IT-based systems will continue to offer dramatic improvements in price performance ratios, but they must be treated as the mission-critical infrastructures that they have become.

In these days of meteoric technological development, does in-depth knowledge about a subject actually become a hindrance to real progress?

In my last column, I described the initial stages of a five-year project designed to bring traffic and scheduling at PBS in line with the more rigorous demands of a new media world.

let's examine some of the changes taking place within the walls of these increasingly digital kingdoms we call homes.

Ever since I started reading them, technology related "expert" predictions have proven to be, at best, a thoroughly mixed bag of outcomes.

I was struck that some technologies I mentioned less than six months ago are now being relegated to the dustbin of history by the introduction of new products.

Large mission-critical software deployment efforts are often compared to the task of changing engines on a jetliner during a flight.

By the time you read this column, the complete overhaul of content workflow within public television will have started.