Employees Use Multiple Gadgets For Work — And Choose Much Of The Tech Themselves This brings up many interesting thoughts and questions: From now till 2016 when the shift happens, what happens to the existing productivity apps that people use? Microsoft already introduced One Note on Mobile. Will they do Word, Excel, PPT etc on… [Read more…]
January 2, 2012
I will do these mini-posts as I see some interesting predictions over the next few days: Strategic technology consulting will be an innovative service offering that gains traction in 2012. As more and more organizations start grappling with cloud computing models, technology scatter, virtualization, managing remote workers and branch offices, etc., the necessity for a company to come… [Read more…]
September 14, 2011
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 to make smaller and smaller devices, which are useful for everything from new areas of… [Read more…]
August 16, 2011
Will this be a trend as books become digital?From a review of a book that got a Jolt Award. Don’t read this book when you have no Internet connection. This book reads better in electronic form than the printed page, and makes liberal use of hyperlinks to reference information. In the preface, Russell says that… [Read more…]
June 23, 2011
InfoQ: The Current Status and Predictions on Cloud Computing from Cloud Leaders InfoQ: The Current Status and Predictions on Cloud Computing from Cloud Leaders Werner Vogels from Amazon and Satya Nadella from Microsoft talked about the current status of cloud computing, while Lew Tucker from Cisco and Jon Weinman from HP made some predictions on… [Read more…]
June 23, 2011
Here are some of the skills for a scientist position for Social Media Analytics from a government organization in USA: Concept categorization Topic classification/topic modeling Natural language processing Sentiment analysis Opinion mining Entity or relationship extraction Social network analysis Swarm-based opinion prediction and Text mining of social media
March 8, 2011
I found this quote while reading Exploring the State of Education Now. “in 1920 being illiterate meant not being able to read or write. In 2010 being illiterate means not knowing how to surf the net.” That got me thinking. Going beyond literacy, what are some of the new basic skills you need? So here… [Read more…]
January 12, 2011
Many of the interesting challenges in computer science, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology entail the construction of complex systems. As these systems transcend human comprehension, will we continue to design them or will we increasingly evolve them? As we design for evolvability, the locus of learning shifts from the artifacts themselves to the process that created… [Read more…]
January 3, 2011
Quora represents a bigger technology trend, which is the layering of an interest graph on top of people’s social graph. On Quora, you can follow not only people, but topics and questions. It defines the world by your interests, not just the people you may know or admire. This is a powerful concept and is… [Read more…]
November 20, 2010
Stumbled on this great presentation from LinkedIn. Here are some really great insights: Isolated infrastructure team is really a bad solution Building a multi-TB lookup infrastructure is really, really hard work, Solution: Build this structure in Hadoop
March 7, 2012
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