Category: DPL Reading List

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. What Stan Lee Knew About Managing Creative People – “Stan Lee hated to see an idle artist. The renowned comic book writer and publisher, who died this week at 95, thought idle talent was bored talent, and bored talent was easy to…

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. To Keep Pace With Moore’s Law, Chipmakers Turn to ‘Chiplets’ – “Chip chiefs say chiplets will enable their silicon architects to ship more powerful processors more quickly. One reason is that it’s quicker to mix and match modular pieces linked by short…

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics – “Data analytics is a powerful and promising source of competitive advantage. To enable such a strategy in the face of a difficult shortfall of the requisite talent in the marketplace, one…

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. How Facebook’s Messenger Got Its New Look in a New Jersey Basement – “…the key shaper of the new Messenger’s look is Christian Dalonzo, a 23-year-old who was still an undergraduate at Rowan University in New Jersey when he crafted the “bubbly”…

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Paul G. Allen, Microsoft’s Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65 – “Mr. Allen was a force at Microsoft during its first seven years, along with its co-founder, Bill Gates, as the personal computer was moving from a hobbyist curiosity to a mainstream technology,…

Here are some of the articles we found this week. Don’t Ignore Apple’s Machine-Learning Chops – “The neural engine in the A12 Bionic now has a dedicated block in the SoC, has jumped from two to eight cores, and is now capable of 5 trillion operations per second. But it all comes together in the…

Here are some of the articles we found this week. The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook – “Beyond the impact on Facebook accounts themselves, the company confirmed that breach impacted Facebook’s implementation of Single Sign-On, the practice that lets you use one account to log into others. The idea is to…

Here are some of the articles we found this week. Carnegie Mellon is Saving Old Software from Oblivion – “While perusing such vintage source code might delight hard-core programmers, most people aren’t interested in such things. What they want to do is use the software. But keeping software in ready-to-run form over long periods of…

Here are some of the articles we found this week. Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure – “In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access. But what if…

Here are some of the articles we found this week. Why Seclusion Is the Enemy of Creativity – “Don’t paint yourself into a corner. The walls we build around ourselves are prisons, not fortifications. Vulnerability is a source of strength. We earn others’ trust by extending our trust to them.” How IBM and the CDC…