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Analytics I: Becoming a Winner in the Marketplace Rich Luciano describes the advantage small, nimble companies have in using business analytics to seize a competitive advantage. 12|5|2012 1 comment
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I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
In the fall of 2011, around 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in a Stanford-sponsored online course about artificial intelligence. About 23,000 completed the course and got certificates, including 248 who got a perfect score. The university offered the same course the old-fashioned way to students sitting in Stanford classrooms. None of the those students got a perfect score.
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.
Wanted! IT Clan Moderators The IT Clan is looking for a handful of readers to help moderate the message boards on our site - including engaging with the industry mavens on our thinkerNet blogosphere. The job comes with various perks (think: cool, free stuff) as well as bags of IT kudos. Interested?
Eighty percent of companies without well-conceived data protection and recovery strategies go out of business within two years of a major disaster. (According to the National Archives and Records Administration - US congress approved research...
Patrick Lin, who is Assistant Professor and Director of Ethics and Emerging Science Group at California Polytechnic State University, penned a thought provoking piece titled 'Stand Your Cybergound' Law: A Novel Proposal...
On Saturday, April 28, the FCC released the full un-redacted report on Google's Street View project. The report is only 25 pages long and can be found at the bottom of this post. I find the following tidbits particularly interesting: "...Engineer...
Alas, my post yesterday somehow disappeared, so I will make this short comment. Mary, this is a great topic, and I wrote about it, mentioning you and some of the comments here, in my article on the topic.... Please enjoy CURES For Security...
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
