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From CIO To Chief Digital Officer – Chuck’s Blog
“In the new digital information economy, who leads the transformation from the previous business model to the new one?”
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PiCloud | Cloud Computing. Simplified.
Looks interesting:
“Re-inventing the Cloud: Leverage the power of the cloud with only 3 lines of [Python] code. Leave the load balancing, auto scaling, and server management to us.”
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IBM’s Watson is changing careers – Big Tech – Fortune Tech
Watson must’ve blown through his winnings. He’s getting a job:
“IBM plans to sell Watson as a cloud-based service companies can tap to find answers in disparate data sets. For example, a financial services firm could use it to sift through news reports and market research to find likely acquisition targets. Or a healthcare company could utilize Watson to process medical articles, prior cases and even a patient’s own medical history and identify the most likely diagnosis and best course of treatment.”
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Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your Plastic | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
“The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.” The group searched for plants, and then cultured the microorganisms within the plant tissue. As it turns out, they brought back a fungus new to science with a voracious appetite for a global waste problem: polyurethane.”
Archives for February 2012
Active Info: Software Architect lessons, Data-driven problem solving
My latest posts on Active Information. It’d be fair to say I’m more focused on raising ideas than hit counts.
Software Architect Lessons from Amazon’s DynamoDB
I took a bit of a tangent (shocking!) on the DynamoDB announcement, pulling lessons from Werner Vogels’ recounting of the DynamoDB genesis that every software architect should embrace.
More data, more collaboration, more power.
In another showing of me being me, I ferret out a counter intuitive idea on the human change of data-driven decision-making.
The official excerpt:
“When you think about the human resistance in adopting data-driven decision-making, or really any change, at the root is the me question. What is the impact on my job, my span of control, my future opportunities?”
