by Neil McAllister, InfoWorld
Don’t call Wolfram Alpha a search engine. Billed by its creators at Wolfram Research as a “computational knowledge engine,” Wolfram Alpha uses mathematical techniques to cross-reference myriad specialized databases, producing unique results for each query. For example, query Wolfram Alpha for “San Francisco New York elevation” and you get back a page [...]

by Colin White
The topic of event analytics is a complex topic and may involve many different types of technologies and products. It is, therefore, very difficult to discuss this field in depth in a few hundred words. My objective in this article is to provide an overview of event analytics and to show how this [...]

by CHARLES DUHIGG New York Times
It is the hot new thing on Wall Street, a way for a handful of traders to master the stock market, peek at investors’ orders and, critics say, even subtly manipulate share prices.  It is called high-frequency trading — and it is suddenly one of the most talked-about and mysterious [...]

by Colin White, BI Research
Over the course of the nearly forty years I have been working on database systems, there have been many debates and arguments about which database technology to use for any given application. These arguments have become heated, especially when a new database technology appears that claims to be superior to anything [...]

by Manuel Garcia, Jr., Counterpunch.org
The recent loss of Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330-200, has raised many doubts among the flying public and even some aviation professionals about the safety of the newest generation of passenger airplanes. These new airliners have composite materials replacing metal for many structural elements and control surfaces, and they [...]