Challenges Ahead

The Challenges Ahead

Middleware Challenges Ahead

24 Computer Middleware Challenges Ahead I n the first attempts to define comprehensive software platforms for distributed applications 25 years ago, researchers created basic middleware elements such as remote procedure call, file service, and directory service based on dramatic advances in hardware technology and fast networking and workstation systems. Today, the scope of middleware is broade...

Ten big challenges ahead

1. Can We Cure AIDS? This is an intense area of investigation at the current time with much focus on the activation of latently infected cells within reservoirs by such agents as histone deacetylase inhibitors. However, there is concern about some of these approaches due to considerations of possible long-term toxicities involving the activating agents as well as questions about whether it will...

Molecular Neuroscience: Challenges Ahead

A molecular neuroscientist with a pessimistic bent might feel that his field is coming to a close, seeing that most molecules contributing to a neuron's well-being and functional states are now known to us. There will still be unexplored ion channels and transcription factors in our genome, but isn't it merely a matter of time before these will be dragged onto the experimental stage? His collea...

Challenges Ahead for Supermarkets

The story of food distribution in the United States is a remarliable one. As a nation, we are blessed with abundant agricultural resources. We have a national agricultural policy that has emphasized efficiency (output per unit of input). And, perhaps most of all, we tend to believe that markets seive consumers best. This belief has helped produce an industry characterized by change. Over the pa...