Category Archives: Advanced Computing

Data Mining Book

From Vincent Granville, who sponsors analytic bridge blog.

Data Science e-book: first draft available for download – AnalyticBridge

Zeitgeist

My colleague Erran Carmel called attention to this new approach to learning that would seem to work well in the modern age.  UC Santa Cruz has an evening school in silicon valley with a few of these attributes, though I do not think it is as fast-moving as these Erran points to.  How could we embed this in a new business school environment?

General Assembly Provides Entrepreneurial Skills To A Chosen Few | Fast Company

Google File System

Google has designed a very large distributed file system with certain capabilities. This document outlines the strengths and architecture.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/labs.google.com/en/us/papers/gfs-sosp2003.pdf