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- Web 2.0 again: Prediction markets
- I just ran across an article in the Wikipedia on prediction markets, of which I've long been a fan. Prediction markets' basic idea is to turn predictions ("Obama will win" and "McCain will win," for example) into stocks, then have participants buy and sell the two stocks on an exchange....
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Stock, Prediction Market, Investment, Finance, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- More on wikipedia abuse
- More on wikipedia abuseThanks!That's an interesting report - if the research stands up, the method used could form the basis for a more general approach. Thanks for pointing it out.RE: More on wikipedia abuseReaders might be interested in seeing a study on vandalism of US senator's WP articles here :...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2008-10-04
- Iowa Electronic Markets pick Clinton, Romney
- If Barack Obama lands a No. 1 finish in the Iowa caucuses tonight, it will be a stunning political upset, but the odds are almost 3-1 that the Democratic nominee will be Hillary Clinton. An even greater upset would be Iowans' selection of Mike Huckabee as the candidate. But ...
- Tags: Candidate, Romney, IEM 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Markets, Investment, Spam, Finance, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Heartland Technology Solutions Implements AMD-Based Presentation Virtualization Solution to Reduce Costs Internally, Drive Revenue Externally
- Heartland Technology Solutions HTS is a regional technology solution provider headquartered in Harlan, Iowa. There are currently seven offices in five states with 80 employees, providing solutions in networking, document imaging, web hosting and design, electronic marketing, GPS, wireless, telephony and many other technologies. It was growing two-fold annually and...
- Tags: Revenue, Solution, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Heartland Technology Solutions, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies 2007-12-05
- Finding leaks in a spacecraft
- With financial support from NASA, Iowa State University ISU engineers have developed a sensor to quickly find leaks in a spacecraft. This sensor locates an air leak by listening to the noise generated by the air rushing out of the leak and includes an array of 64 elements that detects...
- Tags: Leak, Spacecraft, Iowa State University, NASA, Sensor, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- An iPod tax? Iowa Republicans can't believe their ears
- If the powerful trade group the Recording Industry Association of America has trouble tracking down thousands of people who illegally download audio files from the Internet, no one told the Iowa state legislature. The Quad City Times reports that the Iowa Senate recently approved an "iPod tax," which would...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- ID wants new crimes to punish indecent webcam exposure to kids
- An age-old crime goes high tech. It didnt take long for people who have a predilection to expose themselves to figure out that Web cameras could be used for exchanging sexual images or to do live sexual touching or masturbation in view of a digital camera. Iowan lawmakers worry...
- Tags: Law enforcement, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Prediction: Predictive markets will be a next big thing
- Prediction markets may be the next big thing. Maybe. At an evening “confab” at Yahoo a number of experts in the prediction market field talked about the value to corporations of tapping into collective intelligence . The author of popular book, The Wisdom of the Crowds, James Surowiecki moderated...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Education
- EducationIt's all about the apps murphThere are many, many, many other reasons why most schools use PCs with Windows, but by far, *the* most important one is that 99.9% of Educational apps are written for Windows.Going to anger many with this post.I've worked closely with our local rural school system...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Operating systems, Recruitment & Selection, UNIX, computer, education, PC, Microsoft Windows, Sun Ray
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- Mac users out in the cold again
- Once again, Mac users are left out in the cold on a government database aimed at a heavy-Mac using population, the Washington Post reports. Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services -- a central manager of the Grants.gov system -- promised that by November the system...
- Tags: Grants.gov, NIH
- Blog posts 2006-09-13
- Taxing Problems
- The Wall Street Journal reports subscription required that $2-300 million of fraudulent US tax refunds were paid due to an IT project screw-up. From the article: The management efforts of both the IRS and its contractor to improve our automated-refund fraud-detection system were insufficient and are unacceptable, IRS Commissioner Mark Everson...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- Minnesota's election will be all digital
- Minnesota voters will cast their votes electronically for this year's primary and general elections, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. While that's a dicey move, electronic voting critic David Dill concedes Minnesota's system is the best out there - for what that's worth. Dill and other experts agree ... Minnesota's...
- Tags: David Dill
- Blog posts 2006-08-21
- On the shoulders of genius
- George Boole was born in Lincoln, England in 1815 and published The Calculus of Logic in 1848 - almost exactly 100 years after Euler's Introductio in analysin infinitorum Nothing in modern, science based, computing originated in either publication, but the two set in stone the roots of the research behind...
- Tags: Enterprise software, George Boole, Neumann
- Blog posts 2006-06-30
- Don't think portable electronic devices are a risk to flight? Think again
- I remember one transcontinental flight that I took back in 2004. We were at 35,000 feet, somewhere over Iowa, and we were approaching a fearsome thundercloud. So I am thinking maybe the captain is on the radio talking to Minneapolis or Chicago flight control, trying to figure a way...
- Tags: Handhelds, electronic device, portable electronic device, cell phone
- Blog posts 2006-04-10
- ENIAC: First computer makes history
- ENIAC: First computer makes historyIf only my XP box worked that well!*sigh*ABACUS Makes Mind Stronger.ABACUS is simple Counting Frame, Where YOU DO mechanical operations from your OWN minds trained method, counting up result at end. It wasn't until early 1960s' that computing machine could calculate faster than ABACUS. ABACUS operator...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, ENIAC, computer, Abacus
- Discussion threads 2006-02-13
- How to monetise open source
- Some time ago I got asked, by a guy who introduced himself as head of a hedge fund, how to monetise open source. He didn't really care, he said, about which companies or technologies won or lost, what he wanted was a way to be bet on such outcomes. ...
- Tags: open source
- Blog posts 2005-07-14
- IT industry watches Iowa
- IT industry watches IowaViews on MS even more important..I am watching the race as well, looking for clues that any of these candidates truly understands the importance of Microsoft technologies in today's modern age. Some quotes I found to be quite disturbing from some of the candidates, especially around reversing...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Diebold Inc., ITAA, American Worker, tech industry, IT industry
- Discussion threads 2004-01-19
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