May 2003 Archives
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May29
Jimmy Conrad
Lengthy profile of Jimmy Conrad in today's Kansas City Star. -
May28
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. -
May22
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. -
May21
Philip Greenspun on engineering prowess
Philip Greenspun had a pretty insightful article last week regarding the focus of our technology efforts. -
May19
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. -
May18
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. -
May16
Spring in your step
Researchers in England have come up with a new soft-ground soccer shoe using springs to reduce shock. -
May16
Naked Cowboy
Naked Cowboy makes between $150,000 and $200,000 a year for performing in Times Square in his underwear. -
May15
UCLA defense
Jimmy and Carlos both made MLS Team of the Week for May 10. UCLA is dominating the league's back line. -
May14
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. -
May14
Amazon's new search patent
Amazon.com has filed patent 6,564,213 for search query autocompletion strings. A search term is "preferably biased to favor the database items that are currently the most popular." The idea seems similar to Google's spelling correction but with partial strings. If I am on Amazon's wireless site I can see the advantage of typing "Pearl" in the music category for a Pearl Jam CD, but the implications for not discovering Janis Joplin's CD could make the whole thing dangerous.
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May13
Grub
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May12
The World of Google
What's for lunch at Google today? Google is open about allowing employees to work on outside projects, or even heavily swayed R&D within the organization. How many companies do you know would except a failure rate at the expense of a production line? It is nice to see management thinking in terms of leaps and bounds and not inches. -
May07
Grokker
I attended a presentation by Sun Microsystems tonight and saw an implementation of Grokker by Groxis, Inc. Very interesting client rendering design. At 20 MB on top of a Java Runtime Environment I am curious to look at the APIs when they become available.
