Graphic: US Intelligence Budget Visualized — All Collection and Overhead, Almost No Processing and Analysis
Source Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman
JZ Liszkiewics: Food Chains — Slavery & Abuse in America’s Food Production & Processing
In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States. Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of …
Stephen E. Arnold: Elastisearch Open Source Rules Search — Bulldozing Content Processing
Elasticsearch: Bulldozing Content Processing When I left the intelligence conference in Prague, there were a number of companies in my graphic about open source search. When I got off the airplane, I edited my slide. Looks to me as if Elasticsearch has just bulldozed the search and content sector, commercialized open source group. I would …
Stephen E. Arnold: US Government Content Processing – A Case Study
US Government Content Processing: A Case Study I know that the article “Sinkhole of Bureaucracy” is an example of a single case example. Nevertheless, the write up tickled my funny bone. With fancy technology, USA.gov, and the hyper modern content processing systems used in many Federal agencies, reality is stranger than science fiction. This passage …
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Review (Guest): Scripting Intelligence – Web 3.0 Information Gathering and Processing
Mark Watson 4.0 out of 5 stars Ruby-centric tutorials on Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing, and Large-Scale Data Storage and Processing Technologies July 4, 2009 ByTechie Evan This four-part book is focused on programming techniques and technologies that in the author’s opinion can help next generation web applications handle data more “intelligently”. The code samples …
SmartPlanet: Google Planning to Dominate Ubiquitous Sensor Processing
Why Google bought robot-maker Boston Dynamics Google has bought Boston Dynamics, the maker of futuristic military-grade robots including the galloping “WildCat” and the Sandflea, which can jump more than nine metres into the air. Boston Dynamics is the eighth robotics company Google has purchased in the past six months. CBC business commentator Kevin O’Leary, chair …
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Stephen E. Arnold: Content Processing SUCKS
Next Generation Content Processing: Tail Fins and Big Data Posted: 18 Aug 2013 03:11 PM PDT Note: I wrote this for Homeland Security Today. It will appear when the site works out its production problems. As background, check out “The Defense Department Thinks Troves of Personal Data Pose a National Security Threat.” If the Big …
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