Some useful material on MapReduce
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Resources for Android
Bill Gatliff & Karim Yaghmour have posted their slides and sample code (from the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) at Boston) online at www.billgatliff.com/~bgat/esc-bos2011/ and www.opersys
Intel also has made available the following course on running Android on IA (x86) CPUs:
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Temporal Databases
Richard T. Snodgrass is a professor at the University of Arizona (http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/rts/ ) whose whole career is based on temporal databases. You can download a copy of his Morgan-Kaufmann book in (Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL) in PDF and get the SQL code at the university website.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Steve Jobs: How to live before you die
Stanford University, Filmed June 2005; Posted Oct 2011
http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Lost Causes in Theoretical Physics
Lost Causes in Theoretical Physics: http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~streater/lostcauses.html
OpenStack
OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds.
Find it @ http://www.openstack.org/
Find it @ http://www.openstack.org/
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Innovation
Innovation in an unlikely place:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2011/09/25/shedding-light-in-a-novel-way.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2011/09/25/shedding-light-in-a-novel-way.aspx
Friday, September 16, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
SpeechTrans Ultimate App
The company SpeechTrans has a product called the SpeechTrans Ultimate App. It's available in versions for the iPad, iPhone and Android platforms. The application turns spoken words from one language into voice output in another by enabling text-to-text, text-to-speech, and two-way speech-to-speech communication translations in multiple languages.
Two-way speech communications are enabled for English, UK English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, German and Mandarin Chinese. Text-to-speech is available for the preceding languages as well as Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish and Arabic.
The application also stores and can play back previous translations, without access to an Internet connection. In this version the auto-translate feature can be turned off, allowing same language conversations. Information from other applications can also be cut and pasted into SpeechTrans, so it can be translated and read aloud to another individual.
The ability to store and play back translations is a valuable feature for communicating frequently asked questions or phrases and to enable usage without an Internet connection. The Automatic Speech Recognition technology used in SpeechTrans Ultimate comes from Nuance Communications, a specialist in speech recognition and other technologies.
Two-way speech communications are enabled for English, UK English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, German and Mandarin Chinese. Text-to-speech is available for the preceding languages as well as Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish and Arabic.
The application also stores and can play back previous translations, without access to an Internet connection. In this version the auto-translate feature can be turned off, allowing same language conversations. Information from other applications can also be cut and pasted into SpeechTrans, so it can be translated and read aloud to another individual.
The ability to store and play back translations is a valuable feature for communicating frequently asked questions or phrases and to enable usage without an Internet connection. The Automatic Speech Recognition technology used in SpeechTrans Ultimate comes from Nuance Communications, a specialist in speech recognition and other technologies.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Spector360
Here is another nail in the coffin of Liberty.
http://www.spectorsoft.com/ads/360wild/
I wonder if the developers of these products are aware of the fact that they are directly enabling totalitarianism?
http://www.spectorsoft.com/ads/360wild/
I wonder if the developers of these products are aware of the fact that they are directly enabling totalitarianism?
The Gestapo and the KGB would have been proud!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Why Software Matters
From the Wall Street Journal 08/20/2010:
Mark Andreesen of Netscape fame writes:
"Six decades into the computer revolution, four decades since the invention of the microprocessor, and two decades into the rise of the modern Internet, all of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale."
Mark Andreesen of Netscape fame writes:
"Six decades into the computer revolution, four decades since the invention of the microprocessor, and two decades into the rise of the modern Internet, all of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale."
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Free Steven Hawking Book
Full text of the book, "The Grand Design" by Steven Hawking @ http://www.physicisttv.com/videos/The%20Grand%20Design.pdf
Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, and Public Utilities
There is a concern that if one has selected the wrong cloud provider, one could find oneself in an emergency when that provider has exited the business, has failed, or has gone out of business.
The situation in such cases could get even worse if litigation is involved and one’s data or applications are impounded by court rulings or access to them has been restricted.
I have come to the conclusion that in order to address these concerns, cloud providers ought to conform – as much as possible – to the business model of regulated public utilities.
Either that, or non-profit organizations.
HP, Microsoft, and other technology vendors will make their money not by offering cloud services but by supplying the Cloud Utilities with Software, Hardware, and Network Connectivity.
The situation in such cases could get even worse if litigation is involved and one’s data or applications are impounded by court rulings or access to them has been restricted.
I have come to the conclusion that in order to address these concerns, cloud providers ought to conform – as much as possible – to the business model of regulated public utilities.
Either that, or non-profit organizations.
HP, Microsoft, and other technology vendors will make their money not by offering cloud services but by supplying the Cloud Utilities with Software, Hardware, and Network Connectivity.
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