Data & AI

From recent consulting projects, I have learned that analyzing data in Microsoft Office enables unique and valuable business insights across an organization.  In particular, these projects were based on ODBC connectivity to Excel/Access from applications such as SAS (SAS/Access interface to ODBC),...

Getting ready for a panel I was moderating at MarkLogic’s Big Data Summit in New York last month, I was doing research on the history of Agile Development. My two guest speakers, Tim Dunnington of ICA and Richard Winslow of Zynx Health, were going to be talking “agile.” It turned out to be a great […]

Here’s a song we heard at a customer’s office last week… The Twelve Days of Big Data On the first data of Big Data my VP gave to me A deadline and guidelines budgetary On the second data of Big Data my Manager gave to me The goals and objectivity On the third data of […]

A recent article in the NY Times profiled Peter Neumann (Noy-man), computer scientist, musician, veteran of Bell Labs, and computer security pioneer/tireless evangelist. He cites a breakfast meeting he had with Albert Einstein in 1952, when he heard the first-hand utterance of Einstein’s “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler,” as […]