Ann Blair, Too Much to Know
Kimberly Benoy, Taking Account
Inside Google
Large Hardon Collider
Private-public rivals; Craig Venter, Celera Genetics.
Ventner's method
Arthur Miller
The new information technologies seem to have given birth to a new social virus – ‘data mania.’ It symptoms are shortness of breath and heart palpitations when contemplating a new computer application, a feeling of possessiveness about information and a deep resentment toward those who won’t yield it, a delusion that all information handlers can walk on water, and a highly advanced case of astigmatism that prevents the affected victim from perceiving anything but the intrinsic value of data.
Source-Adam Kucharski, www.sbs.com.au
Netflix Prize
Netflix's goal, c. 2014
For DVDs our goal is to help people fill their queue with titles to receive in the mail over the coming days and weeks; selection is distant in time from viewing, people select carefully because exchanging a DVD for another takes more than a day, and we get no feedback during viewing. For streaming members are looking for something great to watch right now; they can sample a few videos before settling on one, they can consume several in one session, and we can observe viewing statistics such as whether a video was watched fully or only partially.
Human Genome Project
http://ai.stanford.edu/~ang/papers/icml12-HighLevelFeaturesUsingUnsupervisedLearning.pdf
Describing Historical Financial Records
Frederick Taylor
The Desk Set
MIT technology review, June 2013
Your Language:
People's computer company.