Is Amazon Web Services developing its own, presumably proprietary, high-density fiber optic cable packages? I have my doubts, but that’s what is said in this Marketplace report.
It seems more likely that AWS is doing what Meta is doing, and working with Corning’s new fiber optic products.
Maybe this has a fuller explanation of what AWS is doing. (Full disclosure: I pay AWS $0.15/month to store some files.)
Neil Pappalardo has died. Sixty years ago, with Curt Marble and others, Neil created MUMPS*. To this day, MUMPS software technology, or one of its derivatives, drives the majority of hospital information systems.
I was fortunate to have started working for the great man when the company was small enough that Neil knew every employee. He was incredibly supportive of me through two extremely difficult crises; one medical (detached retina), and one financial (the mortgage underwriting fiasco).
The last time I met with Neil personally, I was both flattered and stunned when he told me, “I know what you’ve been working on. Keep it up. You have a job here for as long as you want one.”
This video will start with Neil talking about a class he took at MIT. The instructor was Amar Bose.
* Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System
There were a couple of spots on my leg the dermatologist wanted to biopsy. They appeared identical to me, but one of them was nothing and the other was pre-cancerous. The treatment was a blast of freezing liquid nitrogen.
The Liquid Nitrogen instructions:
Hmm. To rupture or not to rupture? I’ll contemplate what to do while awaiting the arrival of Snowzilla.
Still no heat. Hope the service technician gets here before nightfall.
My 8:00 call for service wasn’t logged! So, when I called at 2:00 they didn’t know I had no heat. This is the sort of screw-up that makes customers look elsewhere. A technician is here now.
