Roger Schank, CEO of Socratic Arts (and a life long academic/educator) is of the opinion that IBM’s Watson is making much bolder claims about AI than it should. He argues, Watson isn’t doing “cognitive computing.” Must read of the day. [Roger Schank]
Industry needs to come up with more accurate metrics in order to tell the real story of the cloud. Will the big cloud providers step up? Continue reading Open Letter: Why Cloud Business Needs Better Metrics
IBM revenues have been down for 14 straight quarters. And if that wasn’t enough, IBM says SEC is investigating its practices, something it had known for nearly a month. This is going to get ugly. [WolfStreet]
Robert Cringley starts with H1-B and goes on to offer his reasons as to why US computer industry (as we have known it) is dying. He picks on IBM and HP as his targets. I had to gulp a few times to read through this. However, I didn’t feel cheated by the headline as I do with big publications such as Fortune or by the writer who isn’t really my favorite, but has a strong and clear point of view. [I, Cringley]
URLs are the ingredient of the free web. [Mark Boulton] Pervasive Monitoring is an attack on free Internet. [Tim Bray] The NEW ten most annoying questions in Quantum Computing. [Scott Aaronson] [NY Times’ new fashion editor] Vanessa Friedman’s Fashion Manifesto. H.R. Giger, Surrealist Artist and “Alien” designer is dead at 74. [Rolling Stone] What do … Continue reading What I am reading today
How Technology killed the future. [Douglas Rushkoff] Can the global Internet survive realism about surveillance. [Matthew Yglesias] Is search changing? [Mark Cuban] Beats can’t save the music industry, but this new business model could. [Tyler Hayes] Move to Dubuque, not San Francisco. [Jim Russell] Why new features usually flop. [Des Traynor] Writing is thinking. [Sally … Continue reading What I am reading today
