From CNN:

Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina, one of the most powerful women in corporate America, is leaving the troubled computer maker after being forced out by its board. Fiorina, the only female CEO at a company in the Dow Jones industrial average, had been with the HP since 1999. But the company’s controversial deal to buy Compaq in the spring of 2002 — after a bruising proxy fight led by one of the Hewlett family heirs — has not produced the shareholder returns or profits she had promised.

To our mind, the first Grand Challenge should be coming up with a new name for Grand Challenges. We’ve been slinging this term around for at least two decades now.

The British Computer Society disagrees, apparently. According to InfoWorld:

A group of British computer scientists have proposed a number of “grand challenges” for IT that they hope will drive forward research, similar to the way the human genome project drove life sciences research through the 1990s. Ambitious goals include harnessing the power of quantum physics, building systems that can’t go wrong, and simulating living creatures in every detail.

The lowdown (as a .pdf) is available from the BCS themselves.

Supercomputing Online today has an article about Univa — the recently launched provider of Globus software, support, and services — adding a VP of Product Management, Vas Vasiliadis . According to another blurb, Univa execs will also (naturally enough) be presenting at GlobusWORLD next week in Boston.

Big Blue devotes the current issue of IBM Systems Journal to grid computing. It includes a paper on IBM’s intraGrid, which is based on Globus. It also predicts (get ready for it) the rapid adoption of grids by industry and analyzes the evolution of grid standards and principles.

The hits keep on coming with pieces on security, information infrastructure, and the National Library of Medicine MYMED database system, among other things. And the cover art–ooo laa laa!

Check out the full table of contents.