Information Wants to be Expensive

Former Wall Street Journal publisher and executive vice-president of Dow Jones L. Gordon Crovitz writes: When author Stewart Brand coined…

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Smarter healthcare is instrumented, so our health systems can…

Smarter healthcare is instrumented, so our health systems can automatically capture accurate, real-time information. IBM’s joint initiative with Google Health™…

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“Smarter healthcare is intelligent, applying advanced analytics to improve research, diagnosis and…”

“Smarter healthcare is intelligent, applying advanced analytics to improve research, diagnosis and treatment. Geisinger Health Systems is integrating clinical, financial,…

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Why BI Development is Different

When companies initially embark on their BI development initiatives, they often underestimate its complexity. Some begin BI in the first…

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Aspirational Marketing

I’m always amazed at the loyalty of sports fans – the guys that will brave the cold with letters painted…

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P.862 Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality does not always percept degraded speech well – what to do?

PESQ stands for Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality, an ITU standard specifying how one should test speech/voice signals to obtain…

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How to build your (web) app quickly (and cheaply?) using the Cloud

Fowa Miami 09 Cloud Computing WorkshopView more presentations from Mark Masterson. (tags: cloud+computing fowa) Here are the slides (all 275…

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Stop Using Search Engines

Can you? I don’t need to tell you that the web is progressively beating the library in every battle for…

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Jeremy Blogged in Class Today!

OK, for those of you who don’t recognize the Pearl Jam allusion, here are the lyrics and video. But most…

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Miscellany: Trust, Loyalty, and Book Notes

1) Trust in social networksSeveral recent developments point to the big questions regarding trust in social networks. First, both Facebook…

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