From Support children’s learning by talking with them over a book Almost two decades ago, in 1995, Hart & Risley published the results of a landmark study [1] that linked success in school at age nine to the amount of…
From Support children’s learning by talking with them over a book Almost two decades ago, in 1995, Hart & Risley published the results of a landmark study [1] that linked success in school at age nine to the amount of…
From AMON: An Eye on the Universe AMON stands for Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network. Its mission is to form a network of high-energy observatories across the globe that will search for previously unseen astrophysical signals and send alerts to more traditional telescopes in…
Here is a great story on how Shell plans to save 100s millions of dollars using Semantic Search. They estimate the savings to come from cutting the time of training their employees by providing right information based on the employee’s…
Simons Foundation chooses U.C. Berkeley for Computing Center for research: the growing influence of computer science on the physical and social sciences. An interdisciplinary array of scientists will explore the mathematical foundations of computer science and attack problems in fields as…
After a gap of over 20 years, I got a chance to meet with my mentor. I first met him towards the end of 1984 and pitched him three ways of building a database engine. I will tell this long…
In the past two days, I came across two stories. They are stories of innovation but they also point to a common pattern. I find this encouraging. Is this a trend? We don’t know yet. Tide Pods are palm-size, liquid…
Education hasn’t kept up with development in Big Data according to Deng. “We are facing a huge deficit in people to not only handle big data, but more importantly to have the knowledge and skills to generate value from data…
I don’t think I will ever stop mentioning Steve Jobs in some way. If you are a product guy, SJ is your Product God. From Jony Ives, on Steve and ideas. You see, I think he better than anyone understood…
A trend in one area causes innovations, which in turn drives other trends. Here is a classic example where technology developed in one area ‘consumer devices’ helps in an entirely different area – microscopy. a growing trend in microscopy is…
An article about 90 Day Innovation Sprint. We start with a careful but quick assessment of the industry trends, and develop three to four scenarios which help illuminate the possible future outcomes over a five to seven year period. Based…
