Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

I recently spoke at an event organised by Building the Organisation of Tomorrow , a group created by alumni of University of Technology Sydney’s Master of Business in IT Management program. The format was very stimulating, with three 15 minute presentations, each followed by 15 minutes Q&A and then a ‘disruptive event’, including some awesome satirical musical performances and a planted heckler in the audience.

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SPF13

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing. Using tools like MapReduce, Pig and Streaming you will learn how to do analytics and ETL on large datasets with the ability to load and save data against MongoDB. With Hadoop MapReduce, Java and Scala programmers will find a native solution for using MapReduce to process their data with MongoDB.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Big Data, Big CIO Opportunity?

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Nutanix

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Big Data and Virtualization are the two biggest revolutions underway in enterprise data centers.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Pew Internet & American Life Project’s latest study on the future of the internet examines how young people will be affected by technology. The study selected 1,021 “experts” and asked them to choose between one of the following statements, with no other choices, with these results: Some 55% agreed with the statement: In 2020 the brains of multitasking teens and young adults are “wired” differently from those over age 35 and overall it yields helpful results.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

'What caused the largest IT project in history to fail? The one thing that everyone in IT has learned is to stay away from projects that we just know are going to fail , right? It turns out that over in England , they seem to have forgotten this rule. They decided to do a huge IT project to modernize their health care system and guess what, it just failed.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

[This post first appeared on the Getting Results From Crowds book website]. One of the most important issues in using service marketplaces is choosing between fixed fees and hourly rates. Click on the image for full-size pdf. Originally all the service marketplaces used fixed fees. Odesk, by introducing hourly pay supported by a provider monitoring system, grew rapidly, resulting in almost all the other service marketplaces following suit with this model.

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