Dr. Rachel Yager
Cloud computing is getting exciting with the beta release of Google App Engine in April. There are many questions about the technology adoption challenges for enterprise computing. Specifically questions like: Is Google App Engine better than Amazon Web Services? Can we develop enterprise applications with Google App Engine? Both Google and Amazon promise to make Web application [...]
April 22nd, 2008 | | Continued
There was an interesting conference in Phoenix a week ago – Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction . This workshop is sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), with School of Computing and Informatics, ASU. Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces the social behavior, [...]
April 18th, 2008 | | Continued
Web 2.0 is about gathering Collective Intelligence. I was looking at Fortune companies use of blogging and if they encourage their employees to blog. Below are my picks (based on frequency of posts, page rank and content) – not listed by preference: Tibco: http://tibcoblogs.com GE Global Research: From Edison’s Desk Sun Microsystems: blogs.sun.com IBM: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/ Oracle: http://blogs.oracle.com/ [...]
April 12th, 2008 | | Continued
Google seems to be the top choice for measuring up when it comes to innovation. This April, a number of magazines analyze the makeup of Google and its success factors. In the blogosphere, Google’s innovation recipe (written by consultaglobal.com) gave a great summary of Harvard Business Review’s article (Reverse engineering Google’s innovation machine), and FastCompany’s article (The Faces and voices of the [...]
April 10th, 2008 | | Continued
Tracking the innovation index from: FastCompany (2008 March) Fortune (2008 March) Wired (2007 March) BusinessWeek (2007 March) See all the lists below. Google, Apple, and GE are consistently appearing in the top 10. FastCompany’s innovation index: 1 GOOGLE 2 APPLE 3 FACEBOOK 4 GE 5 IDEO 6 NIKE 7 NOKIA 8 ALIBABA 9 AMAZON 10 NINTENDO 11 PROCTER & [...]
April 10th, 2008 | | Continued
IPMU Conference in Málaga, Spain: June 22-27, 2008 The IPMU Conference is organized every two years with the focus of bringing together scientists working on methods for the management of uncertainty and aggregation of information in intelligent systems. This conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners in these and [...]
March 30th, 2008 | | Continued
LinkedDataPlanet -exploring the new web of connected data – Jupitermedia conference is here in NYC. I’ll be speaking on – Best Practice in Semantic Systems Development: This presentation explores the challenges and approaches for effective semantic systems development. We explore the ROI of semantic systems which are primarily based on agility, flexibility, and information quality. [...]
March 27th, 2008 | | Continued
NAFIPS conference will take place at The Rockefeller University, New York, NY on May 19-22, 2008. I’ll be there. See you!
March 26th, 2008 | | Continued
Many people asked me the difference between Solution Architect and Enterprise Architect. I found a good overview by Gabriel Morgan - Enterprise Architect vs Solution Architect – on msdn blog. I agree on most part that Enterprise Architect and Solution Architect are complimentary roles and should interact in project delivery and long term strategic planning. However, I don’t [...]
March 17th, 2008 | | Continued
Reading with interest this article on the front page of NYT – To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You. The article is about large Web companies learning more about people than ever from what they search for and do on the Internet. I’m glad that this has got on the front page…I [...]
March 17th, 2008 | | Continued
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