Algebraix Data Corporation announced its SPARQL Server RDF database successfully executed all 17 of its queries on the SP2 benchmark up to one billion triples on one computer node. This computationally complex testing exceeds all others before it.
Tonight I was doing laundry while my husband was watching television in the other room. I am used to hearing words like military, marcupial, or wooly mammoth coming from his preferred viewing channels -- History, Discovery, or PBS. It took me a few minutes to realize what I was hearing sounded way too familiar to my world. Words like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and semantic technology came wafting through the house. I soon discovered the program was a NOVA feature, "Smartest Machine on Earth" on our local PBS channel.
Big data continues to change the landscape of IT, in software, hardware, and personnel. Information architecture reaches beyond the actual nuts and bolts of IT, it involves vision about the overall. Big picture, some would say.
Once the world was slow moving and you could anticipate the next year to be much like the current. This world is no longer slow moving, in fact it is on warp speed as technology drives more connectivity in the moment. The Internet provides access to all. Librarians are no longer the gatekeepers of information. The entire business model of information has changed. "We are doing business at the speed of thoughts," says Margie Hlava, President and CEO of Access Innovations. During her keynote presentation at the 9th Annual Data Harmony Users Group this week, Hlava looked back at where we've been while looking forward at how Access Innovations is responding to the new industries and challenges technology has brought us.
Along with everything else in the world, technology is changing at a rapid rate. This has affected all industries and all types of technology, but especially enterprise technology. This has resulted in a new generation of information architecture: event-driven.
The Internet has changed the way we communicate, connect, and do business. The new technologies stemming from the Internet continue to appear every day. One industry that has embraced that technology growth is the hospitality industry. With hotel e-commerce, the industry has forever changed.
KMWorld Magazine’s judging panel has chosen its “KM Promise and Reality” award winners from among the many nominations they received.
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Jim Hendler has been honored with an inaugural Strata Data Innovation Award. The honoree is the head of the Department of Computer Science and senior constellation professor in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The award is given to individuals who have made significant innovations in the data field.
National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) members may be interested in a report stemming from a survey of 19,000 individuals conducted by Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger. The report came from a 6-month research project and has the backing of leading publishers within International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), Humanities and Social Science. It compares the changing reader behaviour between 2005 and 2012 and as a result looks at the impact on publisher and library web site design and function.
Harnessing the power of art, the Public Art Program of Albuquerque, New Mexico has been funding city-wide art on fire stations, libraries, and parks, with more […]