Jimmy Conrad
Lengthy profile of Jimmy Conrad in today's Kansas City Star....
May 2003 archives
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Geeks to Gold
Fortune magazine has an article in this month's issue about how researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center have come up with new data heuristics models such as the Web Graph Structure to analyze thought trends in text. Researchers are put before clients to drum up revenue and learn about big problems with big revenue potentials. Sounds like a good place to work, with some really interesting projects....
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Computer Science’s lost allure
The New York Times has an interesting article on decreased Computer Science undergrads while the demand for graduate CS programs continue to rise....
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Philip Greenspun on engineering prowess
Philip Greenspun had a pretty insightful article last week regarding the focus of our technology efforts....
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Buying Sun
The New York Times (free registration required) has a good article today summarizing the rumored buyout of Sun. Since the rumors first surfaced on May 9 Sun shares have been trading at about four times historical volume. Seems like something is up and maybe it's just a matter of JavaOne before we know what it is. As a member of the Java Community Process I am especially concerned....
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Metallica as Iraqi torture music
The May 26 issue of Newsweek reports that U.S. military units are using Metallica's "Enter Sandman" to break the resistence of Iraqi soldiers....
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Spring in your step
Researchers in England have come up with a new soft-ground soccer shoe using springs to reduce shock....
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Naked Cowboy
Naked Cowboy makes between $150,000 and $200,000 a year for performing in Times Square in his underwear....
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UCLA defense
Jimmy and Carlos both made MLS Team of the Week for May 10. UCLA is dominating the league's back line....
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A team from Stanford has
A team from Stanford has come up with new enhancements to what the world commonly knows as PageRank. They discovered that 80% of the pages on any given site point to other pages on the same site. Topic specific PageRank can become a reality, which definitely has huge possibilities for business intelligence applications....
