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First paper I know of that seems to confirm what we see with our daughters since they are born ... Would this also be observable with astronauts? We should have some data from the ISS it seems to me...

Relevant to our recent discussion on big data at ESA?

relevant yes, though the article gives little information on the "how"

Artes-20 embracing crowdsourcing and putting substantial money into it - at least its first step

The Earth Monitoring Competition is annually awarding prizes to innovative solutions for business and society based on Earth observation data.

Thousands of cycling accidents were re-enacted using stunt riders and crash-test dummies to collect the specific movement patterns of cyclists in accidents. In parallel, normal cycling data has been collected using test cyclists wearing Hövding in everyday cycling. Based on this collected data, they have developed an algorithm that can distinguish normal cycling from accidents. As you don't want the 399GBP device to inflate when taking a sharp corner...

UK researchers say they have achieved data transmission speeds of 10Gbit/s via "li-fi" - wireless internet connectivity using light. The researchers used a micro-LED light bulb to transmit 3.5Gbit/s via each of the three primary colours - red, green, blue - that make up white light. This means over 10Gbit/s is possible.

Seems like astrologists were somehow right... Ptolemy would be proud.

Greetings from July :-) On an unrelated note... this chart made me suddenly realise I've been always thinking of the year as passing counter-clockwise and starting at the bottom. Very strongly. Seems like some tempo-spatial association. Anybody has a similar feeling?

interesting post on data and knowledge management ;)

hehe, a nice controversy? or completely overinterpreted results...?

what the heck is this? sounds strange to me ... would I understand the original paper?

launch of satellite to collect data for improvement of ocean models, weather predictions and hurricane forecasts

Francesco pointed out this research one year ago, we dropped it as noone was really considering it ... but in space a low CPU power consumption is crucial!! Maybe we should look back into this?

I don't remember what is the speed factor, but I guess this might do it! Although, I remember when using an IMU that you cannot have the data above a given rate (e.g. 20Hz even though the ADC samples the sensor at a little faster rate), so somehow it is not just the CPU that must be re-thought. When I say qualification I also imply the "hardened" phase.

I don't know if the (promised) one-order-of-magnitude improvements in power efficiency and performance are enough to justify looking into this. For once, it is not clear to me what embracing this technology would mean from an engineering point of view: does this technology need an entirely new software/hardware stack? If that were the case, in my opinion any potential benefit would be nullified. Also, is it realistic to build an entire self-sufficient chip on this technology? While the precision of floating point computations may be degraded and still be useful, how does all this play with integer arithmetic? Keep in mind that, e.g., in the Linux kernel code floating-point calculations are not even allowed/available... It is probably possible to integrate an "accelerated" low-accuracy floating-point unit together with a traditional CPU, but then again you have more implementation overhead creeping in. Finally, recent processors by Intel (e.g., the Atom) and especially ARM boast really low power-consumption levels, at the same time offering performance-boosting features such as multi-core and vectorization capabilities. Don't such efforts have more potential, if anything because of economical/industrial inertia?

nice paper: like especially: To our knowledge, our model provides the first unified explanation of high-frequency, intra-conflict data across human insurgencies. Other explanations of human insurgency are possible, though any competing theory would also need to replicate the results of Figs 1, 2, 3. Our model's specific mechanisms challenge traditional ideas of insurgency based on rigid hierarchies and networks, whereas its striking similarity to multi-agent financial market models24, 25, 26 hints at a possible link between collective human dynamics in violent and non-violent settings1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Top of page

There was also this paper ... Power Law Explains Insurgent Violence (http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1216/1?rss=1)

Juxi are you following this one? any idea on its purpose?

Not that I'm an expert in the field in any way, but there are two things I could think of: 1) possibility of bringing the payload back means that it can collect huge amounts of data which wouldn't be possible to be transferred via radio in reasonable time and/or you can bring back data you don't want to be intercepted by enemy 2) I remember reading somewhere that possibility of re-entry from orbit means you can strike any country without violating the airspace of the neighbouring countries. As the project is now managed by military, a purely civil purpose can be safely ruled out in my opinion.

nice idea to bring some structure to the list of IT novelties ...

also interesting is this article quote: "How big can the cloud get before it starts to rain?" http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/30/0152200/Amazons-Cloud-May-Provision-50000-VMs-a-Day

Learn about how Google Flu Trends uses aggregated search query data to accurately estimate current flu activity in several countries. - Lead to a Nature paper as well

An interesting aspect of global warming..Was thinking of that today and apparently there are some studies but very limited.Involves a lot of satellite data to measure also moisture etc. in the atmoshpere

fantastic step forward! does anybody know how much they actually sell/sold the launch? I could not find good data. The only phrase in the article that I doubt is this one "Satellite launches are a lucrative business" ...