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IBM Watson and Healthcare Big Data Analytics
Presiding over the ceremonial opening of the new IBM Watson Health global headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., IBM’s senior vice president Mike Rhodin highlighted the sometime-neglected focus of the effort to mine the ever-increasing quantities of health data. “We know that … Continue reading
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2 Solutions to Demand for Tech Skills: Coding Bootcamps and Computer Science Education Starting in Elementary Schools
LinkedIn Official Blog: Technical talent is in high demand. As of publishing this post, a LinkedIn job search for “Software Engineers” in the US reveals more than 100,000 open jobs. Adding a couple more tech-related roles (“User Designer,” “Data Scientist”) … Continue reading
The Virtual Reality Landscape (Infographic)
Phil Orr and Max Wessel, Sapphire Ventures: ..we believe three characteristics of VR will help it carve out its position in the world of computing. These characteristics hint at Neal Stephenson’s metaverse. Namely, they are presence, scale, and interaction design. … Continue reading
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Looking at the Dark Side of the Net
Wired recently reported that hackers posted a “data dump, 9.7 gigabytes in size… to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser.” The data included names, passwords, addresses, profile descriptions and several years of credit card data for … Continue reading
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Google and Alphabet: Invention–and Commerical Success–is not Enough
It looks like most of the publications and pundits of the world had something to say about the surprise-of-the-decade: Google’s transformation into Alphabet (Techmeme provides a sample here). For me, the numerous questions they posed only triggered further questions: Is … Continue reading
Top 10 Programming Languages 2015
Note: Left column shows 2015 ranking; right column shows 2014 ranking. Source: IEEE Spectrum The big five—Java, C, C++, Python, and C#—remain on top, with their ranking undisturbed, but C has edged to within a whisper of knocking Java off … Continue reading
Why Humans Will Forever Rule Over the Machines
Everywhere you turn nowadays, you hear about the imminent triumph of intelligent machines over humans. They will take our jobs, they will make their own decisions, they will be even more intelligent than humans, they pose a threat to humanity … Continue reading
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How Much Will You Pay to Protect Your Data?
Source: Harvard Business Review See also: ‘We The People Have A Lot Of Work To Do’ Says Schneier In A Must-Read Book On Security And Privacy
Mobile is Eating the World (Slideshare)
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