The production of Julius Caesar at the New Theatre in Sydney last night reminded me of the movie 300 retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. Caesar had sufficient gravitas for a Royal Shakespeare production. But Brutus and the conspirators spent much of the performance bare chested showing off their impressive abs. They seemed to thinkRead… Read more »
Google have introduced a beta AdSense mobile interface. This allows those with web sites displaying Google ads to check on their revenue. It is an interesting progression from simply being able to create ads for mobile devices. Original post
Daniel Le Métayer of INRIA Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes, and colleagues, have published Liability Issues in Software Engineering: The Use of Formal Methods to Reduce Legal Uncertainties, Communications of the ACM, 54(4), 99-106 (April 2010). Here is the abstract: This paper reports on the results of a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with theRead… Read more »
The production of Julius Caesar at the New Theatre Sydney last night reminded me of the movie 300 retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. Julius Caesar had sufficient gravitas for a Royal Shakespeare production. But Brutus and the conspirators spent much of the performance bare chested showing off their impressive abs. They seemed to thinkRead… Read more »
On today’s menu of consumer news you can use … a warning about storage insurance policy exemptions, a tip to protect soldiers from ID theft, and a heads up on ring tones that don’t … you know … ring. Original post
If you’re reading this, you probably already know about Apache‘s Hadoop, a popular data storage and analysis platform. Hadoop can inexpensively store any type of information from any source on commodity hardware and allow for fast, distributed analysis run in parallel on multiple servers in a Hadoop Cluster. It’s powerful, agile, scalable, and, due toRead… Read more »
Earlier this week, the White House convened an open government research and development summit at the National Archives. Columbia statistics professor Victoria Stodden captured some key themes from it at her blog, including smart disclosure of government data and open government at the VA. Stodden also documented the framing questions that federal CTO Aneesh ChopraRead… Read more »
Just a few weeks ago I thought to myself, “I should really start posting to this blog every day.” Almost as soon as I had that thought, the number of things vying for my attention during the week, and the number of hours I need to spend on them, went through the roof. And I’veRead… Read more »
“In the face of mounting complexity, smarter, collaborative, fact-based decisions are more important than ever to drive results.” –IBM Public sector offices receive a substantial amount of data. The question is…what can they do with it? How can an agency use the information that comes its way to make the best decisions and best benefitRead… Read more »
I love reading blogs. As in, more than normal. Ok, ok, probably to a freakish extent. I’ve been told in the past my Google reader is out of control. Whatever, I am not one to shy away from reading material. In the hundreds of blogs I’ve made my way through since blogging became mainstream, I’veRead… Read more »