Kurt Cagle is the former contributing editor for Data Science Central. Kurt is a published author with more than twenty books to his credit, and has been working as a technology editor for years, writing for Forbes, O'Reilly Media, IDC and others. He has also been a consulting information architect and ontologist with more than twenty years experience working with Fortune 100 companies and US and European agencies, and is a frequent speaker at conferences on data technologies.
Tim Berners-Lee has an interesting habit of coming up with ideas that seem hard to explain at the outset, remain all hard to understand even… Read More »How Solid Pods May End Up Becoming the Building Blocks of the Metaverse
Over the last thirty years, there have been two camps that have emerged (I’m not sure that calling them schools of thought is even warranted)… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest for 25, 2022: They’re Coming To Take My Job Away!
I bought my daughter a new computer recently for school. We took the laptop home, then watched, increasingly horrified as out of the box the… Read More »Is the GPU the new CPU?
A few weeks ago, we flipped the switch here at Tech Target, retiring our existing Ning-based content management system and debuting our new WordPress environment.… Read More »Notes to New and Returning DSC Writers
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In the last few years, a very interesting concept has emerged from the realm of semantics: data shapes. This idea has been touched upon elsewhere… Read More »The Shape of Data
Microsoft announced today the purchase of Activision / Blizzard, creators of such game titles as World of Warcraft, Diablo, Spyro, Call of Duty, and many… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest for January 18, 2022: Web 3 Isn’t About Blockchain … It’s About Gaming
If you are a long-time reader of Data Science Central, you may notice, the next time you visit, that things look a bit … different… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 11 January 2022: Houston, We Have Lift-off
Newsfeeds are some of the more useful features of many websites, albeit frequently underappreciated by those who see feeds as just an odd-ball bit of text. A typical newsfeed contains a wealth of information about a site and the articles on it.
It’s the last week of the year. The gifts have been opened (well, the ones that aren’t currently still sitting in a dock in Los… Read More »Trends Towards 2022
