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Neil Gershenfeld on Turning Data into Things and Things into Data (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0RDrSKenGo] Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, at the 2014 Solid Conference: Analog telephone calls degraded with distance; digitizing communications allowed errors to be detected and corrected, leading to the Internet. Analog computations degraded with … Continue reading
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Here Comes the Next Bubble: #IoT (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG2dvxSKEGU] Bubblino is a Twitter-monitoring, bubble-blowing Arduino-bot. He watches twitter for a chosen keyword and every time he finds a new mention then he blows bubbles.
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The Web at 25: The Value of Open
The Internet started as a network for linking research centers. The World Wide Web started as a way to share information among researchers at CERN. Both have expanded to touch today a third of the world’s population because they have … Continue reading
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The Web at 25: Tim Berners-Lee on the Web of Data
In 2009, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Web, Jason Rubin and I talked to Tim Berners-Lee about his invention and its future, the Semantic Web, which he described as “the Web of data.” Twenty years on, … Continue reading
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Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante from Wikibon on the Big Data Market (Video)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef_yQvtC9aA?list=PLenh213llmcYiyiYRzkku1MgwvrL_TIGN] From Silicon Angle: Our coverage kicked into high gear after the release of Wikibon’s third annual Big Data Vendor Revenue and Market Forecast, which author Jeff Kelly stopped by to discuss with hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante. … Continue reading
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Jake Flomenberg from Accel Partners on the Big Data Market (Video)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHOw-2IWHZE] From VentureBeat: In a new video, Jake Flomenberg of Accel Partners lays out his view of the big data market and the investing opportunities he’s excited about. He’s talking with another data expert: Stefan Groschupf, the chief executive of well-funded … Continue reading
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Doing Data Science at Manheim
As ones and zeros eat the world, data is the new product and data science is the new process of innovation. The International Institute for Analytics predicts that in 2014 companies in a variety of industries will increasingly use analytics … Continue reading
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Satya Nadella, New Microsoft CEO, on the Digitization of Everything (Video)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Hiss2EkE?list=PL6RKqpezpCYp5-XtFje-AeT4XHOs0X4ZK] Satya Nadella on the Microsoft Blog: On Tuesday at LeWeb’13 in Paris, I joined Om Malik on stage to talk with thousands of entrepreneurs, startups and large companies about technology and where we’re headed as an industry. The … Continue reading
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Design Thinking for Dummies (Data Scientists)
[slideshare id=30767715&style=border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;&sc=no] Strata preview 2014: Design thinking for dummies (data scientists) from Dean Malmgren Data scientists often face ambiguous challenges and, as a group, should use and make use … Continue reading
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Why Ones and Zeros Are Eating the World
30 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. More accurately, The Great Magician took it out of a bag and let it talk to us. The Macintosh, as I learned from first-hand experience in 1984, was a huge leap … Continue reading
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