The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Towards the European Open Science Cloud CERN has recently published a paper which outlines the establishment of the European Open Science Cloud that will enable digital science by introducing IT as a Service to the public research sector in Europe.
Crowdsourcing Point Clouds for Disaster Response Point Clouds, or 3D models derived from high resolution aerial imagery, are in fact nothing new. Several software platforms already exist to reconstruct a series of 2D aerial images into fully fledged 3D-fly-through models. Check out these very neat examples from my colleagues at Pix4D and SenseFly: Read more.
This is a great resource to generate student research and discussion. School in the Cloud School in the Cloud allows learning to happen anywhere by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and ability to work together in Self Organised Learning Envrionments.
I wrote a little programmers guide. It can be found on our web page: SharkSystem Tutorials SharkSystem Developers Guide I use that guide as basis for my classes. That handbook isn’t finished of course. We have two running application projects right now:
Why Clouds Give Me a Case of the Vapors IEEE Computer, 1 November 2014 EXTRACT In my personal life I build trusted relationships one tax-avoiding, jurisdiction-shopping multinational corporation at a time. Show me a company that engages in labor arbitraging and offshore production in third-world countries paying starvation wages3 and that avoids taxes through shadow …
The Cloud: Flecked with Scattered Twinkie-Like Information I read “Cloud Revenue Jumps, Led by Old Computing Titans.” If you have a hard copy of the “real” journalism Mt. Parnassus, you can find this story in the August 4, 2014 version delivered to Kentucky. Online, the story carries an August 3, 2014 date and, if you …
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: The Cloud — Twittering Twinkies”
Microsoft Puts Machine Learning in the Cloud Machine learning is ascending to the cloud. The Register asks, “Do Data Centers Dream of Electric Sheep? Microsoft Announces Machine Learning Cloud.” As competition in the world of SaaS and remote hosting continues to escalate, this move may set Microsoft ahead of Amazon and Google (for now). Our …
