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2014/01/112014/01/12

Stephen E. Arnold: IBM Watson Dreams of Beating Google and Apple — Without a Clue

More Watson Nuggets Fast Company published “IBM’s Watson For Business: The $1 Billion Siri Slayer.” The write offers some nuggets of information that convert Watson from search system into the next Apple or Google. Frankly I find this notion somewhat amusing. The story reports this interesting assertion, “IBM wants to transform Watson into a Siri …

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2014/01/10

Stephen E. Arnold: Big Data 2013 Wrapup

Big Data 2013 Wrapup 2013 was the year that big data became big business, says Alex Handy in his San Diego Times article, “Big Data 2013: Another Big Year.” Handy explains that big data made the transformation when enterprises deployed Hadoop in production environments and NoSQL people spread data around on servers. These two combined …

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2014/01/092014/01/09

Stephen E. Arnold: Google & Open Source

Google Head of Open Source Opens Up Google and open source have worked together since the search engine’s inception and it has contributed to its success. Tech Radar hosts an interview with Google’s head of open source Chris DiBona about how Google uses open source, how it has shaped the company, and how Google has …

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2014/01/082014/01/08

Stephen E. Arnold: IBM’s Flash Memory

Prediction for IBM January Announcement Folks at the Register have been reading the signs and believe they know what big announcement IBM plans to make at its Infrastructure Matters virtual event on January 14th. “IBM Flashy January Announcement: Wanna Know What’s in It?” predicts the launch of data centers with all-flash memory. That would be …

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2014/01/072014/01/07

Stephen E. Arnold: Information Black Holes + Findability

Information Black Holes: Autonomy and Its Value Proposition I follow two or three LinkedIn groups. Believe me. The process is painful. On the plus side, LinkedIn’s discussions of “enterprise search” reveal the broken ribs in the body of information retrieval. On the surface, enterprise search and content processing appear to be fit and trim. The …

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2014/01/072014/01/07

Stephen E. Arnold: Fraud in Academic Publishing

The Slipping Standards in Academic Publishing There is a troubling article over at Priceonomics titled, “Fraud in the Ivory Tower.” The post begins with the tale of former Tilburg University professor Diederik Stapel, who was found in 2012 to have fabricated or manipulated data in at least 30 papers that had been published in peer-reviewed …

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2014/01/072014/01/07

Stephen E. Arnold: Free Big Data Mining Book — Mining of Massive Databases

Free Data Mining Book We enjoy telling you about free resources, and here’s another one: Mining of Massive Datasets from Cambridge University Press. You can download the book without charge at the above link, or you can purchase a discounted hardcopy here, if you prefer. The book was developed by Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman …

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