The SQL Standard – ISO/IEC 9075:2023 (ANSI X3.135)
SQL (standing for Structured Query Language) is the standard language for relational database management systems. When it originated back in the 1970s, the domain-specific language…
SQL: American National Standard Adoptions by INCITS
SQL is the standard language for relational database management systems, and, in the age of mass digitization, its intuitive capabilities in database manipulation have accelerated…
IEEE 1012-2016: Verification and Validation (V&V)
Salt and pepper, Batman and Robin, and verification and validation (V&V) have more in common than one might think. For instance, all three of these…
How the Cloud is Transforming the Way Hospitals Store & Use Patient Data
The massive cloud migration of recent years has spread across a myriad of industries, with healthcare being one of the latest to adopt its systems…
Why JPEG 2000 Never Took Off
As the millennium came to a close and the world accelerated inexorably towards the Digital Age, everyday life underwent some extreme changes. Monolithic companies were…
Amendment 1 to ISO/IEC 13818-1:2018 Fixes Issues in the Transport of JPEG 2000
***Update: ISO/IEC 13818-1 has been revised. The current edition, ISO/IEC 13818-1:2022 – Information Technology – Generic Coding Of Moving Pictures And Associated Audio Information –…
Gait Analysis: Your Walk Shows Who You Are
How We Walk The human walk (gait) is a biomechanical marvel, an innovation as intricate, complex, and successful as the machinery fabricated by the very…
GDPR and Privacy Law: A Paradigm Shift for Technology Companies
The technology sector is currently undergoing a regulation renaissance. Lawmakers are increasingly skeptical of Internet companies’ ability to handle their own affairs. The European Union’s…
Role Based Access Control (RBAC), INCITS 359
Role based access control (RBAC) is an approach in computer systems security in which each user is assigned one or more roles, and each role…