what is big data?
Svetlana Sicular (@Sve_Sic), Gartner Research Director, offers a Big Data roadmap (via rww article). One of the delightful surprises in her report is a definition of a data-driven enterprise that...
View Articlewhy more women conference speakers?
In 1997, I attended the Grace Hopper Conference for the first time. I was already quite accomplished in my career. My first startup had been acquired. I had worked as a software developer on both After...
View Articleinspiring student films
Last week I watched the first ever White House film festival. A couple months ago, students all across the country were invited to make short films about the technology in their classrooms or how they...
View Articlea first conference talk pitch
Interview with Valerie Liberty of Balsamiq who recently submitted her first talk proposal. Val: My name is Valerie Liberty and I work for a small bootstrapped startup called Balsamiq Studios. Sarah: I...
View Articlelinking people through history
Many museums, archives and libraries are exploring Linked Open Data to make their online collections more meaningful to researchers and to the public at large. From the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands...
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