Category Archives: Big Data History
Hadoop 0.1
CNBC: The name [Hadoop] is a homey story going back 10 years—into the realm of a toddler’s experimentation with old-fashioned human language. Cutting’s son, then 2, was just beginning to talk and called his beloved stuffed yellow elephant “Hadoop” (with … Continue reading
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3 Big Data Milestones
If you were asked to name the top three events in the history of the IT industry, which ones would you choose? Here’s my list: June 30, 1945: John Von Neumann published the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, … Continue reading
Jeanne Harris Travels Back to the Future with Big Data
Jeanne Harris at Strata 2013: “The movie we are in people is not Fields of Dreams, it’s Groundhog Day. We have to learn from the patterns of history. ….back in 1980s they were talking about the data deluge…. We have done … Continue reading
Kenneth Cukier Keynote at Strata Conference London 2012: The Manifest Destiny of Big Data
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Archimedes and Big Data
In The Sand Reckoner, Archimedes wrote: “There are some, king Gelon, who think that the number of the sand is infinite in multitude; and I mean by the sand not only that which exists about Syracuse and the rest of … Continue reading
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