The Open-Source Answer to Big Data
Posted by PCWorld
Open-source source platforms for big data have exploded in popularity. And in the past few months, it seems like nearly everyone is feeling the fallout.
Cost, flexibility and the availability of trained personnel are major reasons for the open-source boom. Hadoop, R and NoSQL are now the supporting pillars of many enterprises' big data strategies, whether they involve managing unstructured data or performing complex statistical analyses on it."
It's almost hard to keep up: SAP AG recently released a new product, SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis, software that integrates algorithms from the open-source R language, which is used extensively in the academic community for advanced statist[...]
Continue ReadingCost, flexibility and the availability of trained personnel are major reasons for the open-source boom. Hadoop, R and NoSQL are now the supporting pillars of many enterprises' big data strategies, whether they involve managing unstructured data or performing complex statistical analyses on it."
It's almost hard to keep up: SAP AG recently released a new product, SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis, software that integrates algorithms from the open-source R language, which is used extensively in the academic community for advanced statist[...]
Push Level Agreement
Posted by TechCrunch
So now we’re in for an apparently unlimited amount of blaming Facebook for just about anything that needs a scapegoat. Take the story that crossed whatever we call the wires these days about how social readers are being destroyed by some tweaking of the Facebook engine. I followed all the links on Bruce Francis’ Cloudblog story and now realize this is actually about Facebook social readers. But the net seems to be: don’t trust your friends when they have something to share with you.
I thought this was already well known, starting and ending with Digg and its tyranny of the crowd. Trending topics for me is another way of saying here’s what to find out enough about to i[...]
Continue ReadingI thought this was already well known, starting and ending with Digg and its tyranny of the crowd. Trending topics for me is another way of saying here’s what to find out enough about to i[...]
Backstage at Disrupt, Cornell’s Dan Huttenlocher is Bringing Big Red to the Big Apple
Posted by TechCrunch
Cornell University made big news earlier in the year when it was announced the Ivy League school, located in upstate New York, would open a technology campus in New York City. Leading the charge for Big Red will be Dan Huttenlocher, dean of computing and information science — and a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Dean Huttenlocher was kind enough to come backstage after his session to discuss more details about the campus and program. Cornell will build a technology campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City, which will house a full master’s program that combines academic research in computer science and engineering along with a variety of practical training programs. While[...]
Continue ReadingThe blood in your eyes may soon replace your passwords
Posted by VentureBeat
So you need to identify yourself. You could have your fingerprint professionally authenticated. You could also have your iris scanned. How about using your smartphone to read blood patterns in your eye? EyeVerify is bringing that technology to your iPhone in 2013.
“We’ve been using passwords and tokens for centuries, and that worked centuries ago,” said EyeVerify chief executive Toby Rush in an interview with VentureBeat. “It failed us… We need something better.”
While finger printing and iris scans have proved to be accurate ways to identify an individual, these methods require extra hardware to process the data and pattern match. The impressive part of E[...]
Continue Reading“We’ve been using passwords and tokens for centuries, and that worked centuries ago,” said EyeVerify chief executive Toby Rush in an interview with VentureBeat. “It failed us… We need something better.”
While finger printing and iris scans have proved to be accurate ways to identify an individual, these methods require extra hardware to process the data and pattern match. The impressive part of E[...]
Google’s World Wonders Project brings the magic of Street View to historic sites
Posted by VentureBeat
Who needs to go on vacation when you’ve got Google?
Google today is rolling out the World Wonders project, an interactive site that explores 132 historic sites from all across the world.
Google charted the sites in much the same way as it has with its Street View technology – with one major exception: Trikes, special camera-equipped vehicles that replaced Street View cars when navigation was an issue. Likewise, when necessary, the company strapped its cameras to snowmobiles, boats, and, in one instance, the top of of a train.
The ability to traverse obstacles gave the project team access to spaces like the interior of Stonehenge, which can be explored fully and throughly from th[...]
Continue ReadingGoogle today is rolling out the World Wonders project, an interactive site that explores 132 historic sites from all across the world.
Google charted the sites in much the same way as it has with its Street View technology – with one major exception: Trikes, special camera-equipped vehicles that replaced Street View cars when navigation was an issue. Likewise, when necessary, the company strapped its cameras to snowmobiles, boats, and, in one instance, the top of of a train.
The ability to traverse obstacles gave the project team access to spaces like the interior of Stonehenge, which can be explored fully and throughly from th[...]
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