Tag: VentureBeat

Sentient code: Stephen Wolfram’s linguistic computing platform

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Linguistic Search

Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Tick­ets on Sale Now In 2002 Stephen Wol­fram released A New Kind of Sci­ence and imme­di­ate­ly unleashed a firestorm of won­der, con­tro­ver­sy, and crit­i­cism as the British-born sci­en­tist, pro­gram­mer, and entre­pre­neur over­turn… http://flip.it/kLzwP Related articles Sentient code: An … Continue reading Sentient code: Stephen Wolfram’s linguistic computing platform

Top 5 cities for computer science jobs

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Information Visualization, Metadata Masterdata

Here are the top 5 cities for computer science jobs Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Tick­ets On Sale Now If you’re for­tu­nate enough to posess a com­put­er sci­ence degree, or have picked up cod­ing skills on your own time, you have the option to live and work vir­tu­al­ly any­where in the world. But in cer­tain cities, tech… … Continue reading Top 5 cities for computer science jobs

ReconJet creates Google glass competitor with Apple connections

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search

Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Google Glass com­peti­tor Recon Jet, which bills itself as the Google Glass for ath­letes and pro­fes­sion­als, has secured an invest­ment from Intel Cap­i­tal. In per­haps big­ger news, the com­pa­ny announced that is has already shipped 50,000… http://flip.it/x80lA Related … Continue reading ReconJet creates Google glass competitor with Apple connections

How the cloud is rescuing the freelance industry

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Information Visualization

How the cloud is rescuing the $300 billion freelance industry from itself Rich Pearson, venturebeat.com Tick­ets On Sale Now Rich Pear­son is Chief Mar­ket­ing Offi­cer of Elance. The way that busi­ness­es recruit and man­age work­ers is under­go­ing a dra­mat­ic trans­for­ma­tion. A volatile econ­o­my and an increas­ing­ly… http://flip.it/gfsrb Related articles Elance unveils Private Talent Cloud to … Continue reading How the cloud is rescuing the freelance industry

Why health care needs Apple

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Network Science

Why health care needs Apple | VentureBeat. Related articles Obama Striking Assad Risks International Law Conflict - Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) Forrester's top 15 emerging technologies | VentureBeat (venturebeat.com)

Why healthcare needs Apple

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI

Why health care needs Apple Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Apple has a huge oppor­tu­ni­ty to inno­vate in dig­i­tal health. The Sil­i­con Val­ley tech­nol­o­gy giant has yet to con­firm any new health and fit­ness gad­gets — includ­ing its hotly antic­i­pat­ed “iWatch.” If you were hop­ing yes­ter­day’… http://flip.it/mxJnO Related articles Is Apple Moving Into Digital Health? (inc.com) Samsung … Continue reading Why healthcare needs Apple

Visualizing how you will die

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

(via What do people die of? Mortality rates and data for every cause of death in 2011 visualised | News | guardian.co.uk) Related articles Information is Beautiful on how we die (guardian.co.uk) How We All Die, Visualized (gizmodo.com) The visual system as economist: Neural resource allocation in visual adaptation (medicalxpress.com) Data visualization startup Visual.ly grabs … Continue reading Visualizing how you will die

Making housing more adaptable: one experiment in Hong Kong

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science UX Research, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

This creative experiment reveals how in our increasingly resource constrained world, 344 square feet can be made to feel much bigger through adaptable design On Location - One Room Configured 24 Ways - NYTimes.com. Related articles Hong Kong - Most expensive city to live in the world : 1 July 2012 (internationalcostofliving.com) Hong Kong - … Continue reading Making housing more adaptable: one experiment in Hong Kong

Techmeme: cutting edge trend spotting

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Metadata Masterdata

Techmeme. We're not sure what kind of secret sauce Gabe Rivera uses to find stories for his TechMeme news aggregator (he simply says the site uses a "software agent"), but what we do know is that TechMeme brilliantly unearths the hottest news stories. Related articles Techmeme's Gabe Rivera interviewed by The Verge (nextlevelofnews.com) Techmeme's Gabe … Continue reading Techmeme: cutting edge trend spotting