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Data mining without prejudice

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/large-data-sets-algorithm-1216.html? The information age is also the age of information overload. Companies, governments, researchers and private citizens are accumulating digital data at an unprecedented rate, and amid all those quintillions of bytes could be the answers to questions of vital human interest: What environmental conditions contribute most to disease outbreaks? What sociopolitical factors contribute most to educational success?
http://piracy.americanassembly.org/same-old-song/ The current SOPA/Protect IP debate has many antecedents and will probably have many sequels.

Same Old Song | Media Piracy | The American Assembly

Do Common Cloud Assumptions Hold Up to Scrutiny?

Fact-Fiction-Cloud-Computing

http://www.emersonnetworkpower.com/en-US/About/NewsRoom/NewsReleases/Pages/Fact-Fiction-Cloud-Computing.aspx
On October 26, a YouTube user named crimewriter95 posted a full-length version of Pulp Fiction, rearranged in chronological order.

No Copyright Intended

http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/
Intelligent water is the latest addition to the IBM Smarter Cities portfolio.

IBM launch Intelligent Water for Smarter Cities

http://greenmonk.net/2011/12/15/ibm-launch-intelligent-water-for-smarter-cities/
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/owncloud-an-open-source-cloud-to-call-your-own/10011 Want your own personal cloud? Check out ownCloud.

OwnCloud: An open-source cloud to call your own

http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2011/11/30_zittrain-the-personal-computer-is-dead.html The following op-ed by Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain appeared in the Nov. 30 edition of the Technology Review. [ Click here for audio. ]

Zittrain in Technology Review: The personal computer is dead

The return of the operating system

Source: Brian Proffitt – IT World. http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-return-of-the-operating-system/2011/12/14
More data was transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than in all other years combined .

Tapping into a world of ambient data

http://strata.oreilly.com/2011/12/david-campbell.html
guest article by Thomas Maillioux above: David designs an animation for his LoL Shield with LoL Shield Theater

What happens when you turn a middle school library into a hackerspace?

Go Daddy Has Lion's Share of IPv6 Address Space

The surprising results of an IPv6 census conducted by the Measurement Factory and sponsored by Infoblox are that the lion's share of actual working IPv6 nodes are being hosted by Go Daddy.
On the back of what I wrote the other week about machine intelligence , I think another important step is democratizing use of machine learning & intelligence software: making it accessible to people and companies that don’t have a PhD or deep pockets to hire one.

Making Text Mining Accessible to Any Developer & Non-Expert

Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.

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What we could do with really big touchscreens - O'Reilly Radar

Will big touchscreen displays—bigger than tablets—usher in new kinds of creative composition? I don’t hear much talk about Microsoft’s Surface computers, those industrial strength touchscreens-on-a-tabletop. But maybe the idea was about $10,000 too expensive and a few years ahead of its time.