Should Pragmatic Chaos or Epagogix determine future of our human entertainment?

Cinematch, Dinasour Planet, and finally Pragmatic Chaos –predicting what movie you might want to watch- is determining  60% of the movies being rented. Pragmatic Chaos got the 1 million dollar prize. Prize for reading what is in your brain. The above photo is from the ceremony in New York City. (20 Sept 2009) for more [...]

How can a $35 book go upto $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping) at AMAZON? Real Story !

After a few days From http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358  Michael Eisen’ Blog: “….But two questions remained. Why were they doing this, and how long would it go on before they noticed? As I amusedly watched the price rise every day, I learned that Amazon retailers are increasingly using algorithmic pricing (something Amazon itself does on a large scale), [...]

Transforming BI for Extreme DATA–Why is it relevant for Today? Why Today? IDC Business Intelligence Roadshow 2011

IDC Business Intelligence Roadshow 2011 View more presentations from ugur candan. In this presentation I tried to explain why big data or extreme data problems are so trendy. There is a specific reason for this. For those who attended the event I hope it is clear. For those who have not attended you need to [...]

Gamification of eEducation System: Where should we start?

Gamification of eEducation View more presentations from ugur candan. Our current education system is engineered during the industrial revolution and have not seen radical changes ever since. With the emerging mobile technologies I do believe that the learning experience could dramatically change. The main problem is having a batch of students receiving the same educational [...]

Video: Evolution of A New Architecture SAP HANA

Evolution of SAP HANA and in-memory Computing !

What is SAP HANA? Why is SAP HANA a Game Changer? What Drives in-memory Computing?

Why is SAP HANA a game changer?

What is Information?

  This is a short film by MAYA Design about information. Although most of us think we know what we mean when we say “information,” we sometimes confuse the medium with the message. This is a companion piece to our film about architecture.

What is Architecture?

What is Architecture I was in search for a good definition for a software architecture. I had noticed this fantastic video about “what achitecture is”. This is a short film by MAYA Design about architecture in its broadest sense. This film is a companion piece to our film about information. I really appreciated the ease [...]

Home Made Super Computer

Integrating CUDA into a Large-Scale Commercial Database Management System Richard Wilton, Tamas Budavari, Alex Szalay - The Johns Hopkins University In a large-scale database installation where data tables are distributed across multiple servers, computational throughput can be optimized by using GPUs on each server and integrating database management with GPU resources. In the Department of Physics and [...]

What is Next for CPU?

Power Wall+ Memory Wall + ILP (Instruction level parallelism) Wall= Brick Wall There are two ways to scale speed by a factor x. Scale the number of (running) cores by x Power will scale by the same factor x Scale the clock frequency f and voltage V by x Dynamic power will scale by x to the [...]

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