For most of the last century, our electrical grids stood as an…
For most of the last century, our electrical grids stood as an engineering marvel of the modern age and a…
“These houses are part of a revolution in building design:…
“These houses are part of a revolution in building design: There are no drafts, no cold tile floors, no snuggling…
Electronic Vision
Second Sight Medical Products has developed Argus Two, a sophisticated eye-implant device with an array of 60 electrodes, providing a…
Book Review: Advanced Presentations by Design
Presentation guru Andrew Abela recently published his first book Advanced Presentations by Design. Abela shares his 10-step technique for developing…
book review “Data Preparation For Data Mining”
Just before Christmas I bought myself yet another data mining book (i have a few dozen). This one somehow slipped…
Data Mining Blog: Neural Market Trends
If you're interested in data mining and the financial market, this blog is definitely for you. In Neural Market Trends,…
IT as a Business: or IaaB
Whereas SaaS is predominantly a Business Process Outsourcing trend, Cloud Computing is predominantly an IT operation outsourcing trend. IBM and…
Comparing Costs of Different Cloud Computing Providers
The past month we have been trying to quantify the cost of moving some of our workloads into the cloud.…
Google and Amazon as Benchmarkers
One of the most interesting aspects of cloud computing is the opportunity for benchmarking. Instead of paying market research firms…
Windows Server on Amazon EC2
As soon as I finished yesterday's blog entry, I became aware of a posting by Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels, where…
