Posted on July 4th, 2009 by Tim Bass
I have been troubled by CEP marketing lately. It started when I read a statement by John Davies in his post Algorithmic trading with Twitter.
In his post, John boldly wrote to Peter Lin, and the world:
Peter,
The fuzzy logic is exactly what CEP companies specialise in, ….
-John-
I could not understand how someone who [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by Tim Bass
I received an email a number of days ago from someone who was concerned that another blogger was painting me as “a negative person.” My impression was that they hoped I would comment in reply.
In thinking how to respond, or if to reply at all, I thought of the irony of the “you are being [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2009 by Tim Bass
As we have seen, one of the best ways to predict global events is by placing the possible event outcomes in the community (marketplace). Here is a (free) Event Prediction Marketplace where technical folks in a community can place their virtual (not cash) bets on technology, science and technology M&A events (or non-events) such [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2009 by Tim Bass
I thought we had seen the last of the darkest days of folly, falsehoods and hype around “complex event processing” and then I read Why does ‘complex event processing’ have to be so complex? by Joe McKendrick. Here is some of the marketing nonsense:
I recently had the opportunity to join David, along with Brenda Michelson, [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2009 by Tim Bass
Here is an excellent Google TechTalk by Dr. Majorie Shapiro (LBL & LHC ATLAS), June 18, 2007, on processing complex events at the LHC called, Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass: Exploring the Nature of the Universe Using PetaScale Data Analysis.
This is really what I would call “real-time CEP.” Bean collisions at the [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Tim Bass
Just coming off a ten day vacation, I was planning to write a few posts on a few “pure” scientific topics like string theory, complexity, and emergence. However, a few folks contacted me and asked me my opinion on TIBCO Silver; so, I thought I would at least blog on my first impressions.
TIBCO’s marketing [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by Tim Bass
Oh, how I am laughing today. FIrst, I was rolling on the floor about online salami attacks at E-Trade and Schwab, now kindred-spirt blogger Marc Adler at Citigroup has me laughing with his recent CEP marketing hype:
You know that it’s been a good week for CEP when the Times starts covering it. - Marc
Anyway, [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by Tim Bass
Here is one of my favorite news stories of the week, Guilty Plea for Man Behind Creative E-Trade Scam.
In this funny story, Michael Largent, 23, of Plumas Lake, CA, wrote a simple Internet script that opened more than 58,000 online accounts at places like E-trade and Schwab. Largent used fake names to automatically open [...]
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