In his latest talk about SAT solvers at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Computer Science pioneer Donald E. Knuth gave a deep and quite emotional insight about his life-long, epic work on the book ‘The Art of Computer Programming’. The Art of Computer Programming, aka TAOCP represents the one and only global reference on algorithms, their […]
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Book Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Ready Player One, a science fiction novel written by Ernest Cline, is set in the year 2044 after a global energy breakdown and economic recession. As resources are rare these days, the remaining people live under poor conditions in crowded megacities, where they spend their time working and living in a virtual world called OASIS. OASIS […]
Book – The Human Face of Big Data
Did you ever wondered what the Big Data Hype means to us in reality? Information and communication technology, advanced network bandwidth and intelligent data analysis and prognosis enable fantastic insights into our modern society. No matter if you are collecting data within urban areas, such as the different ways Pizza delivery is taking in Manhattan […]
A Maker’s Dream: Unboxing the new Arduino Education Starter Kit
Today, i received one of the first samples of the new Arduino Educational Starter Kits by RS and i have to admit that beside it’s cool design this educational starter kit is one of the most exiting collections of electronics i have ever tested. It comes in combination with an Arduino Projects Book that gives […]
Book Review: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card in 1985, for me belongs to the top 10 in modern science-fiction stories, due to a fantastic story that deals with computer games and human intelligence. The book, which is based on a initial short story, won several awards, such as the Hugo and the Nebula awards. Andrew ‘Ender’ […]
Book Review: Daniel Suarez, author of Daemon, Freedom and Kill Decision
Daniel Suarez became one of my favourite tech authors within the last years. Daniel Suarez, who was born on 21. Dezember 1964, is a US software developer, system consultant and primarily an amazingly cool science-fiction author. He started to write under an anonym Leinad Zeraus, before he wrote his three best selling thrillers Deamon in 2006, […]
Visual Internet Maps
Here is another nice example for a visual Internet map by Ruslan Enikeev, who visualizes the Internet nodes of different countries and regions as galaxies of stars. The distance between these stars, model a bi-dimensional presentation of links between websites on the Internet. Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is determined by […]
Book Review: The 100$ Startup
The 100$ Startup by Chris Guillebeau is dedicated to low budget startup companies, that are run by individuals without large teams. These startup companies very much differ from the actual hype around seed funding and pitching large and potent investors. The typical Silicon Valley entrepreneurs try to set up startups with the goal to sell them […]
Book Review: The Wisdom of Crowds
With the book The Wisdom of Crowds James Surowiecki wrote a fantastic book on the topic why crowds of people can come to interesting decisions in certain situations. Recently crowd reviews, also known as collaborative filtering got quite popular with the appearance of recommendation engines that support customers in deciding which product to choose. Surowiecki […]
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is a really good science-fiction novel with a fresh and innovative story, compared to other books i read in the last month. The story plays in a nation called Panem, which was founded after the country formerly known as North America fell in a catastrophic war against each other. Out […]