The Silver Lining: Turning Hardship into Opportunity

The Silver Lining of Cloud Computing

“Due to decades of technology acquisitions to fuel growing businesses, enterprises are now facing a breaking point with their IT systems. Some systems can’t share information and workloads, servers are highly underutilized and the cost of energy is becoming greater than the value of the systems the energy powers. In some cases, nearly 70 percent of companies’ IT budgets can be devoted to managi...

The Silver Lining Around Fearful Living

This paper discusses in layperson’s terms human and computational studies of the impact of threat and fear on exploration and creativity. A first study showed that both killifish from a lake with predators and from a lake without predators explore a new environment to the same degree and plotting number of new spaces covered over time generates a hump-shaped curve. However, for the fish from th...

Every silver lining has a cloud.

When the Blood Glucose and the HbA1c Don’t Match: Turning Uncertainty Into Opportunity

A central principle in science and medicine is that the more independent pieces of evidence there are that agree, the more convincing it is that a hypothesis—or diagnosis—is valid. The opposite is also true: discordant information leads to uncertainty. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for clinicians caring for people with diabetes to encounter individuals in whom HbA1c and blood glucose simply...

Visual analytics: A grand challenge in science - turning information overload into the opportunity of the decade

We are in the midst of a major change in the requirements for visualization technologies. The issues posed by information overload goes beyond what is provided by traditional scientific and information visualization. These new requirements will drive a emerging research and development agenda including aspects from both scientific and information visualization with a published starting point de...