Watson Goes to Work in the Hospital
Designed to answer Jeopardy! questions, IBM’s Watson is of little use beyond the game show’s set. But some of the techniques that helped the computer defeat two human Jeopardy! champions in February are showing promise in a new context: the hospital. Researchers in Canada are using analytics like those that helped the computer decipher the language of clues to provide an early warning when babies in an intensive care unit acquire a hospital-borne infection.
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Data management ‘can affect business performance’
Firms may wish to take the advice of one expert on board and tailor their data management software to ensure the best results.
Daniel Teachey, writing for Information Management magazine, said such technology can have a significant bearing on the performance of a company.
Especially in times like these, when the global economy is uncertain, organisations should spend money in areas that are sure to provide the biggest returns.
Many do not place data management within this bracket, although the author suggested it perhaps should be.
Node.js and the JavaScript Age
Three months ago, we decided to tear down the framework we were using for our dashboard, Python’s Django, and rebuild it entirely in server-side Javascript, using node.js. (If there is ever a time in a start-ups life to remodel parts of your infrastructure, it’s early on, when your range of motion is highest.)
This decision was driven by a realization: the LAMP stack is dead. In the two decades since its birth, there have been fundamental shifts in the web’s make-up of content, protocols, servers, and clients. Together, these mark three ages of the web:
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Many chief information officers are really CIOs in name only. Far too many of them spend most of their time managing infrastructure rather than actual business information. In effect, the CIO is really the chief "infrastructure" officer.
In Search of a More App-friendly Cloud
When you get right down to it, the cloud isn’t about speed or flexibility or scalability or any of those infrastructure functions that IT worries about. It’s about applications.