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IEEE Seminar, February 6th, 5PM, EME 1151
IEEE Okanagan Subsection Presents Mr. David Mayes Faculty of Management, Global Internet Group, LLP Big Data, the Cloud, and Smart Mobile: Big Deal or Not? Time & Date: 5pm-6pm, February 6,...
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Big Data, The Cloud And Smart Mobile Are Actually One Big Thing
ToDaClo is a current buzz word of sorts for “touch-data-cloud,” (or Big Data, The Cloud and Smart Mobile) which appears to have been coined by a writer for Forbes magazine during a talk in Paris in...
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Sweden boasts the world’s fastest 4G speeds; US ranks a lowly 8th
Reblogged from GigaOM: Sweden was the first country to launch an LTE network, and it retains plenty of bragging rights. According to a study by U.K. network-testing firm OpenSignal, Sweden has the...
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Eric Schmidt Nailed It: China’s Military Is Hacking Us Silly
On the evening of February 6th, I delivered a guest lecture to the local chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). During the course of my lecture I referenced a very...
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Harlem Shake, Gangman Style May Spell End of Telecom Monopoly
Could Apple, Google and Intel Save Net Neutrality? Something potentially very important may be happening for the future of the Internet and Net Neutrality: online video broadcasting: participation...
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Why Knowing How To Code Is So Important: One Million More Jobs Than Students
As many of my colleagues and students know, student cyber skills are one of my big passions. Having been incredibly fortunate to be thrown into the whirlwind of Intel and Silicon Valley, I watched as...
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Big data is still hard, but it gets better
Reblogged from GigaOM: What's standing between your staff and big data analysis? That was the existential question posed of DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher at the GigaOM Structure:Data event today in...
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5 Ways Big Data Is Going To Blow Your Mind
“Big Data, Big Deal or Not?” Debate Continues The Gigaom Structure Data Conference has just concluded in New York City. It has added significantly to the discussion and the debate on the significance...
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Largest Cyber Attack In History Slows The Internet
The last two days have seen one of the most interesting and disturbing examples of the ongoing problems with Internet security, and the potential of contending with anonymous groups and aggressive or...
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Hans Rosling Makes Visual Sense of Big Data Analytics
I started this post to make a relative mundane point for UBC Management students about the importance of making their presentations easily understandable, particularly when they involve lots of numbers...
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Online Privacy Policy? What Online Privacy…?
A number of my students have asked me about online privacy. Many of us, not only students, have not spent the necessary time to read and research the privacy policies of the major online social media...
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Vancouver D-Wave’s Groundbreaking Quantum Computer Sale to Lockheed Martin...
D-Wave‘s Very Strange New Computing Technology Promises Great Speed and Capacity This is a very Big Deal, which also increases the likelihood that Big Data will be a very Big Deal. While the Canadian...
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Can big data raise the United States' national graduation rate?
Reblogged from PandoDaily: Collecting data and statistics is nothing new in education. Educators have been using Blackboard’s analytics software for years. But what is new is the sheer amount of...
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Google Buys a D-Wave Quantum Computer
D-Wave 512-Qubit Bonded Processor – Recent Generation Earlier this week, I was advised by a VC friend in Vancouver to expect another blockbuster announcement from D-Wave. And so it has happened. As if...
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God Speed Edward Snowden: An Ethical Dilemma of Global Proportions
I have written a number of posts on this blog about Big Data.. Big Data is in and of itself is benign. It has enormous potential to enrich our lives. Evidence the excellent new book, Big Data: A...
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More research emerges in defense of D-Wave as a quantum machine
Reblogged from GigaOM: Add another point to the D-Wave Systems scorecard. Researchers at the University of Southern California have been experimenting with the Lockheed Martin's quantum computer, (s...
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Integrated Big Data, Cloud, and Smart Mobile: Big Deal or Not?
IEEE Talk: Integrated Big Data, The Cloud, & Smart Mobile: Big Deal or Not? by David Mayes on Jul 10, 2013 This IEEE Talk discusses the three biggest trends in online technology and proposes that...
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Asiana Pilots Racist Fake Names Released by NTSB: A Connection to the...
We appear to have learned nothing from the civil rights movement of the 1960′s. Last week, Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area television station KTVU broadcast fake Asiana pilot names actually officially...
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The Internet of Things: The Promise Versus the Tower of Babbling Things
The term “Internet of Things” (IoT) is being loosely tossed around in the media. But what does it mean? It means simply that data communication, like Internet communication, but not necessarily...
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More On The Tower of Babbling Things: Honeywell Smart Thermostat
This article from Gigaom serves to further underscore The Tower of Babbling Things….Competitors battling each other over control of The Internet of Things over the means, methods and, most importantly,...
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