It’s all too easy for a techie to see dashboards and graphs as a fluffy executive toy but the fact is visualisation is the key to insight for many people. All the old clichés apply a picture speaking a 1,000 words et cetera, etc. For the numerate executive the are the control panel – the [...]
By Every year IBM make 5 predictions of 5 technologies that will change our lives in the next 5 years. http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibm_predictions_for_future/overview/index.html. It’s always a good read and my favorite prediction this year is the 3-D hologram webcam. I can’t wait to get the mrs dressed up as princess Leia and to have her repeat “help me Obi Wan Kenobi” [...]
Know any kids you think might fancy a career in IT?
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 11 March
It's The Ruddy Future from Stephen Levin on Vimeo. Made me titter a little. A contact of mine at IBM, Jacqueline Davey, recently gave me some info following a discussion we had about widening the demographic of folks making it into blue chip technology companies. A subject close to my heart as my science savy [...]
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Another dreary winter in Scotland has me feeling a little SAD. I wonder if highly efficient Vitamin D generators (milk bottle skin-tone!) like myself are more prevalent among sufferers?
The Wolfram is at the Door – and he is stimulating all my senses
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 19 May
Having had a look at Wolfram-Alpha it seems like Stephen and friends have been busy little bunnies. I've been a fan since the first time I got my mitts on a copy of Mathematica way back when and it just did EVERYTHING better. Of course other stuff has come along to fill little niches and [...]
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