Peter Coffee is a commentator for Ziff Davis. He is the Technology Editor of eWEEK[1], Ziff Davis Media's national news magazine of enterprise infrastructure. He has twenty years' experience in evaluating information technologies and practices as a developer, consultant, educator, and internationally published author and industry analyst. Ziff-Davis Inc. ...

Coffee writes product reviews, technical analyses and his weekly Epicenters column on disruptive forces in IT tools and practices; he has appeared on CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, and PBS newscasts addressing Internet security, the Microsoft antitrust case, wireless telecom policies, and other eBusiness issues. He chaired the four-day Web Security Summit conference in Boston during the summer of 2000, and has been a keynote speaker or moderator at technical conferences throughout the U.S. and in England. A disruptive technology is a new technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology in the market, despite the fact that the disruptive technology is both radically different than the leading technology and that it often initially performs worse than the leading technology according to existing... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... United States v. ...

Coffee authored "Peter Coffee Teaches PCs," published in 1998 by Que, and previously authored Que's ZD Press tutorial, "How to Program Java." He played a lead role in developing eWEEK Labs' 2001 series of special reports entitled "Five Steps to Enterprise Security." His current eWEEK beats include development tools and business intelligence products.

Before joining eWEEK (then called PC Week) full-time in 1989, Coffee held technical and management positions at Exxon and The Aerospace Corporation dealing with chemical facility project control, Arctic project development, strategic defense analysis, end-user computing planning and support, and artificial intelligence applications research. He has been one of eWEEK's lead analysts throughout the life cycles of technologies including x86 and RISC microprocessors; Windows, OS/2, and Mac OS; object technologies, including Smalltalk, C++, and Java; and security technologies including strong encryption. He holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University, and has taught classes in the department of computer science at UCLA and at Pepperdine's Graziadio School of Business and Management and the Chapman College School of Business. x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. ... Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC), is a microprocessor CPU design philosophy that favors a smaller and simpler set of instructions that all take about the same amount of time to execute. ... Microprocessors, including an Intel 80486DX2 and an Intel 80386 A microprocessor (abbreviated as µP or uP) is an electronic computer central processing unit (CPU) made from miniaturized transistors and other circuit elements on a single semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) (aka microchip or just chip). ... Windows may refer to: the architectural feature (for seeing out of buildings); see window a concept in computer graphical user interfaces; see window (computing) the computer operating system, Microsoft Windows the 1981 movie, Windows This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... Version 2. ... Original 1984 Mac OS desktop Current 2005 Mac OS X desktop Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is Apple Computer’s name for the first operating systems for Macintosh computers. ... Smalltalk is a dynamically typed, reflective, object oriented programming language designed at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, Adele Goldberg, and others during the 1970s. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus) is a general-purpose computer programming language. ... Java is a reflective, object-oriented programming language developed initially by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems. ... This term cryptographically strong describes an algorithm that is suitable for some task in cryptography or information security, but also resists cryptanalysis and has no security weaknesses. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research institution and university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts along the Charles River and across from Bostons Back Bay district. ... Pepperdine University is located overlooking Malibu, California. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ...

Peter is the father of three sons and is active as a youth soccer referee, Boy Scout backpack leader, church choir member, and coordinator of his church's food bank program. His weekly newsletter, Peter Coffee's Enterprise IT Advantage, and his other writings are available at www.eweek.com/petercoffee[2]. The American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) is a national, non_profit organization which provides soccer development and instruction for children between the ages of 10 and 19 in all fifty states and some territories. ... Polish Boy Scouts fighting in the Warsaw Uprising Boy Scouts originally denoted the organization that developed and rapidly grew up during 1908 in the wake of the publication by Lord Robert Baden-Powell of his book Scouting for Boys. ...