Robert Coover–fiction writer 8/26/96 –1– loucks

Author Robert Coover, who famously declared “The End of Books” in an influential 1992 essay published in The New York Times, stepped to the podium not with an iPad or e-reader but with a sheaf of pages. At the Jan. 31 Writers Institute event, the father of hypertext and metafiction read from his new novel, “Huck Out West,” from honest-to-God ink pressed into dead trees.

NordiaSoft Announces General Availability of its new SCA v4.1 Embedded Components Suite

GATINEAU, Qui 1 2bec, Feb. 12, 2017 — NordiaSoft today announced the general availability of its new Embedded Components Suite, a complete ecosystem for component based embedded software development particularly suited for military and public safety radio equipment, radars, electronic warfare, signal intelligence, test & instrumentation, and more. eCo Hub, a runtime deployment engine that implements the Software Communications Architecture v4.1, with an expanded Application Backwards Compatible Unit of Functionality that supports deployment of a mixture of SCAv4.1 and SCAv2.2.2 components at both the platform and the application levels.

New York’s Cybersecurity Requirements for DFS Licensees: A New Item at the Top of the To-Do List

With a compliance date a few months away, licensees of the New York Department of Financial Services must start taking action in response to coming cybersecurity requirements, which will be more onerous and difficult than any existing requirements in the United States. Even though the revised proposed regulation, published December 28, 2016 and available here , is open for comment until January 27, 2017, the DFS will focus on new comments that were not raised in the original comment period.

Supercomputing, experiment combine for first look at magnetism of real nanoparticle

Barely wider than a strand of human DNA, magnetic nanoparticles — such as those made from iron and platinum atoms — are promising materials for next-generation recording and storage devices like hard drives. Building these devices from nanoparticles should increase storage capacity and density, but understanding how magnetism works at the level of individual atoms is critical to getting the best performance.

Dave Davies Talks Smithsonian TV Series, New Album With His Son & Recent Demos With Brother Ray

Rock stars and their toys are the subject of a new Smithsonian Channel series — and the Kinks’ Dave Davies is happy to be a part of it. Davies joins Graham Nash , Motown legend Martha Reeves , Moby and others in Rock ‘N’ Roll Inventions , a six-episode weekly series kicking off at 8 p.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 16. The first episode, “This Damn Music,” examines developments such as windup gramophones and 78rpm shellac records, vinyl singles, the jukebox, transistor radios, FM radio, cassette and videos, while subsequent chapters will take on everything from electric guitars and keyboards to studio technology and staging.