An Incredible Lesson in Crisis Management
(E) Nearly after a month that Captain Sully Sullenberger and his crew from US Airways Flight 1549, against all odds, successfully landed a plane in the Hudson river offshore of Manhattan, saving […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
Cloud Computing from Your Mobile
(T) We get our music from iTunes, we connect with friends through Facebook, we publish our professional bios on LinkedIn, we find our directions through Google Maps, we share our pictures on Flick , we […]
The Engineers of the Renaissance
(E) Did you know that because he was left-handed, Leonardo Da Vinci often wrote from right to left with reversed or even mirror script? Who would do such a thing? An Engineer! […]
Multifractal Model of Asset Returns
(B) The price of a stock or any other asset trading on the stock market is a multifractal process with fat tails and long-term dependency. The Multifractal Model of Asset […]
Multifractality of the Stock Market
(B) Fractal Geometry is at the heart of Financial Engineering. Pioneered in early 1960 by French American Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, a retired Professor from Yale University and an IBM Scientist and […]
The Stock Market for Dummies
(E) While the stock market is unpredictable, its patterns are very repetitive. Those patterns are the same whether the stock market behaves and investors are making money or the stock […]
Fractal Geometry Beautiful Simple and Powerful
(E) Fractal Geometry establishes the repetition of geometric patterns at different scales so common in nature around us. Stones look like rocks and rocks like mountains. Small branches look like […]
The Risk of a Black Swan in Your Portfolio
(B) Since worldwide equity markets peaked on October 2007, most market indexes and funds have lost between 40% and 60% of their values. Depending on the index and the fund, […]
Black Swans Gray Swans and White Swans
(E) Life is full of surprises. Good and bad. We all know that. What we learn over time is that a few of those surprises have sculptured the bodies of […]
The Storm the G1 or the iPhone
(T) Which one to use? The Storm from Research in Motion, the G1 first Android’s design from Google or the iPhone from Apple? Well, it simply depends on your needs. If you want an efficient e-mail, […]
YouTube on your iPhone
(T) Everyone wants to watch videos on his or her mobile device. Mobile users want to access user-generated content (UGC) from YouTube, watching news from CNBC and sharing photos and videos […]
Saving the Worldwide Financial System
(B) The US Dow Jones (DJI) has its worst week in its 112-year history down 18% just this week and, 40% lower from its peak in October 2007, having destroyed […]
The Insolvency of the US Financial System
(B) The US financial system does not have enough capital to cover its losses from the debt market in particular defaults of mortgages, trading of mortgages (mortgage-backed securities) and bets […]
Migrating to an IPv6 Internet
(T) Between the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and version 6 (IPv6), IPv5 defined in RFC 1819 was intended for streaming traffic but has never widely been used. IPv6 was designed mainly […]
Preserving Internet IPv4 Addresses
(T) Initially, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses were defined in IETF RFC 791 as a two-part object combining: a “network identifier” and a “host identifier”. The network identifiers are assigned by […]
The Internet Running Out of Addresses in 2011
(T) The Internet is running out of addresses! Each computing device connected to the Internet must have a unique worldwide Internet address. Soon, the 4.3 billion addresses that are possible […]
Product Managers are Product Innovators
(B) The birth of a product in technology originates in two ways. Either a new product (or technology) creates a new market (or application). An example is the Web that […]
The Day Life of a Product Manager
(B) The daily life of a high-tech product manager is always changing. The product manager needs to prioritize his or her time according to the key product challenges and priorities […]
NextGen Carrier Ethernet
(T) Providing higher bandwidth applications (more) at a lower cost (with less) is the main driver for the present evolution of Ethernet. But to achieve that goal some legacy limitations […]
Brilliant Ideas from Brilliant Minds
(T) Every year at the RSA Conference, I have the same feeling: that information security is not changing and at the same time somewhat changing. What is changing is obviously […]
Simple Ideas from Simple Minds
(T) Although most of us have been exposed to the basis of computation theory through the Turing Machine, fewer of us probably remembered that Alan Turing was a code breaker […]
The 45 Trillion Dollars Credit Default Swaps
(B) Earlier this year, Bill Gross from PIMCO identified in his January 2008 Investment Outlook, the emerging risks to the financial system caused by the $45 trillion credit default swaps (CDS). […]
The Collapse of the US Financial System
(B) The present crisis of the US financial system that raised its peak with Bear Stearns’ collapse last week has its roots in the US addiction to put too much […]
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