Via Business Week By building mathematical models of its own employees, IBM aims to improve productivity and automate management
by Stephen Baker
BusinessWeek’s 2006 Cover Story, “Math Will Rock Your World,” announced a new age of numbers. With the rise of new networks, the story argued, all of us were channeling the details of our lives into vast databases. Every credit-card purchase, every cell-phone call, every click on the computer mouse fed these digital troves. Those with the tools and skills to make sense of them could begin to decipher our movements, desires, diseases, and shopping habits—and predict our behavior. This promised to transform business and society. In a book expanding upon this Cover Story, The Numerati, Senior Writer Stephen Baker introduces us to the mathematical wizards who are digging through our data to decode us as patients, shoppers, voters, potential terrorists—even lovers.
One of the mos...
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So what’s the least desired electronic gadget this holiday season?
Well, flat-screen TVs and mobile phones are still in, but cash-strapped shoppers are likely to shun anything closely linked to entertainment in the home or car because such electronics are seen as dispensable in an economic crisis.
That includes audio speakers and desktop computers and even GPS navigation systems made by companies such as TomTom NV and Garmin Ltd.
A popular item as recently as last year, GPS... more
No sh*t Shylock! From: broadstuff.com Post Date: 2008-11-26 21:19:49
From the My God thats so Profound Dept:
The WSJ today informed us that Tech shares may fall further .
Who woulda thunk it, eh? But the analysts are as perceptive as ever:
"The big guys of today are now hunkering down, looking at where they've been, and the winners are spending their time building on that," said NPD Group analyst Stephen Baker. "When the market finally comes up, they'll be ready."
Talk about a paradigm shift - better get their ducks in a row so... more
What the data miners are digging up about you
In today’s technological world we leave electronic traces wherever we go, whether shopping online or on the high street, at work or at play. That data is the raw material for a new industry of number crunchers trying to explain and influence human behaviour, as Stephen Baker [...]... more
In this episode of Cover Story, meet science fiction illustrator Stephen Youll — a man with out-of-this world talents.
For more great book-centric videos, go to bn/studio.... more
COVER STORY: Not just for spiders, silk threads could be used to make bulletproof vests and scaffolding for growing cartilage, among other materials.... more
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Honda is recalling 273,000 2004-’08 Acura TL sedans to fix potential fires under the hood due to a power steering hose that can crack and leak power steering fluid. In a separate recall, the Japanese automaker is recalling 129,600 TLs from the 2004-’05 model years to correct a potential failure of the circuit breaker inside the windshield wiper motor.
In its recall summary concerning the TL’s power steering hose problem, the National Highway Traffic ... more
Your Subaru is the best choice you can make when it comes to “what to drive in the snow”. All-Wheel Drive is a superior method of traction and there is no better example of this than driving the Subie up the pass to go skiing or snow boarding. We get a lot of questions about tires and chains so I thought I would provide some tips.
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Via NY Times
By BILL VLASIC
WOODHAVEN, Mich. — The Ford Motor Company is applying the hard sell these days — piling on incentives, doling out marketing DVDs and brochures, and making offers it hopes are too good to pass up.
But Ford’s big new push is not to sell cars. Instead, it is trying to sign up thousands of workers to take buyouts, partly by convincing them that their brightest future lies outside the company that long offered middle-class wage... more
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