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DavidAlber

  1. Potential breakthrough in pancreatic cancer treatment j.mp/IdXkag
  2. My dissertation defense occurred five years ago on this date -- April 13. That was also a Friday.
  3. Today's my last day at Microsoft davidalber.net/blog?p=2353
  4. Yahoo To Spin Off Apache Hadoop Unit As Hortonworks blogs.forbes.com/ericsavitz/201… via @forbes
  5. Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS): pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu.
  6. "Incoming house-sized asteroid will skim past Earth". newscientist.com/blogs/shortsha…. Is the notable part that we noticed?
  7. Disco: data analysis platform with MapReduce, implemented in Erlang. Jobs are written in any language (often Python). discoproject.org
  8. Link to HPCC Systems: hpccsystems.com
  9. "LexisNexis Takes On Hadoop With Open Source HPCC". informationweek.com/news/developme…
  10. "Connecting to Kinect from Sho". bit.ly/mc4kPt