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To that Big Data is becoming Bigger Data room without spending millions of dol- listen to the vendors and the at an increasing rate. lars for the privilege. Apache Hadoop faithful, Big Data is Is Big Data really about gleaning all So Big Data, step one, is about put- the latest and greatest buzzword that that juicy information from transaction ting your information into Hadoop. The will save your company from wasteful logs, enterprise databases and unstruc- second step, which is where we expect spending, ineffective marketing cam- tured data sources? Not quite. Right most data-rich enterprises to be by the paigns, and customer bleeding. now, Big Data is mostly about just hav- end of this year and into 2013, is to Part of the challenge with Big Data, ing a place to put all your data so you can begin to actually ask that data ques- of course, is determining exactly what it actually perform calculations across it. tions. That’s where analytics tools come is. It’s the best of Business Intelligence, And that’s why, while Big Data isn’t into the picture. Business Analytics, Data Mining, and a just about Hadoop, we believe that And as you can see in our Big-Data whole lot more, tied up with a ribbon. right now, Big Data is mostly about story this month, that’s also where a lot Or, to paraphrase Wikipedia’s defini- Hadoop. That’s because Hadoop is of companies are hoping to make a big tion, Big Data is a term applied to data today’s best general solution for cost- impact. But until enterprises get their sets whose size is beyond the ability of effectively storing huge chunks of data data into a Hadoop cluster (or any alter- commonly used software tools to cap- and then performing computation native platforms that spring up—and ture, manage, and process the data across that data. they will), all the analytics software in within a tolerable elapsed time. Yes, there are dozens of companies the world won’t matter. A petabyte of How big is Big Data? It might be that will sell you expensive solutions to data is just a concept unless you’ve got terabytes, or petabytes, or even more, do just this, but in most cases, Hadoop a place to put it before you can begin to in a single data set. What we know is is the best way to get in the Big-Data analyze it. z In memory of Alan Turing Alan Turing, the British mathemati- it would not halt and would keep run- castration as the only alternative to cian and computer scientist, was ning forever, meaning the problem imprisonment for violating Britain’s born on June 23, 1912—one hundred could not be solved. decency laws, the brilliant mathemati- years ago this month. Turing worked hard on the halting cian committed suicide at age of 41. To computer scientists and histori- problem, which is fundamental to the The Association for Computing ans, Alan Turing is most famous for his study of modern computer science and Machinery created the A.M. Turing work at Bletchley Park, England, dur- the practice of designing, testing, opti- Award in 1966 to recognize lasting and ing World War II. His algorithms were mizing and implementing algorithms major technical contributions to the critical to breaking German codes, and that are deterministic. Without that, we field of computer science. for his involvement in the construction don’t have any real-time embedded sys- In this issue, several A.M. Turing of computers (called bombes) that tems, to choose but one example. Award recipients (including this year’s helped automate the decryption And of course, there is the Turing winner, Judea Pearl) share what Turing process. His name is synonymous with Test, his thought experiment that said meant to their own interest in comput- the Enigma, the German navy’s that if a computer could trick a human er science. fiendishly complicated code machine. into thinking that he or she was con- At the centenary of his birth, we Turing is also known for his work on versing with another human, then the dedicate the 10th anniversary of the what we call the Turing Machine, a the- computer could be said to be thinking. SD Times 100 in memory of Alan oretical device that he envisioned could Through the Turing Test and other Mathison Turing, Order of the British solve any computer algorithm that works, Alan Turing is one of the fathers Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, could be described on paper tape. Well, of artificial intelligence. for his extraordinary contributions to it could solve almost any algorithm. Sadly, the homosexual Turing was a computer science, mathematics, cryp- Sometimes the Turing Machine would victim of that era’s intense prejudice. tography, artificial intelligence and, halt and present a solution. Sometimes After being forced to endure chemical posthumously, human rights. z SDT278 Ads page 2-39_Layout 1 5/21/12 12:38 PM Page 9 Scale Agile Global Knowledge Mobile DevSuite 9.0 ALM that’s Always the Right Size New features of DevTrack 9.0 • Multi-site support for global distributed development • Integration with Microsoft Word • Full traceability throughout the application lifecycle • Brand-new GUI to simplify issue management • Innovative capabilities to facilitate sprint planning • iPad and Android support • Fully integrated knowledge base www.techexcel.com 1.800.439.7789 SDT278 page 10_Layout 1 5/22/12 5:02 PM Page 10 OPINION 10 SD Times June 2012 www.sdtimes.com FFEEEEDDBBAACCKK Whom are you have to learn a whole new approach. Fight back against That’s the nature of the problem, not calling a snob?? brogrammers! “smugness” on the part of the people who’ve solved it. I think you have it backward (it being Scott Brickner As an educator, a computing profes- “Functional programming’s smug United States sional and a woman, I am disturbed by cloud,” May 2012, p. 69). Every exam- the term “brogrammer.” (re: “Zeichick’s ple of “smugness” you give is an exam- Take: Fight back against the ugly ‘bro- The Obi-Wan ple where you’re using concepts heavi- grammer’ trend,” sdt.bz/36614). Many ly embedded in the procedural defense for Haskell colleges and universities work diligent- paradigm and asking how they apply in ly and purposefully to attract girls and the functional world. You’re not even I understand that there can be some women to our profession. How discour- speaking the same language. very vocal advocates who can come off aging to see/hear the attention being But, what you forget is that these as smug, (re: “Functional program- given to this stereotype! “smug” functional folks aren’t knock- ming’s smug cloud,” May 2012, p. 69). Like you, I have long admired Grace ing on your door trying to sell you but that is something you can find in Hopper, even heard her speak! And something; if they were, they’d have to any area of the software industry (espe- there is another woman to admire: Maria speak your language. Instead, you’re cially when people want a panacea). In Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd Col- knocking on their door, pleading with fact it is a matter of life that you will lege. When she was still at the University them to help you solve problems that always find people like that. of British Columbia, I was impressed your procedural paradigm has failed to I’m pretty new to the Haskell com- with her efforts to reach out to girls and solve. You know they have the answers, munity, but the interactions I have had help them to overcome the old sexist but now you’re whining because they with them so far have been very warm. stereotypes in sciences and computing. expect you to learn their way of think- “This is my message to today’s function- Rita Williams ing rather than having their successful al programmers: You can either change Canada model broken by conforming to yours. the industry or you can be smugly elite. Letters to SD Times should include the So, watch it with the “smug.” The Choose one.” writer’s name, company affiliation and Haskell community is one of the “Only a Sith deals in absolutes.” contact information. Letters become the friendliest out there. Yes, figuring out Matthew Brunelle property of BZ Media and may be edited. monads is difficult; you’re going to United States Send to [email protected]. ON THE WEB www.sdtimes.com >Commitment leads to quality >David Gerrold vs. The Griefers J.D. Hildebrand has heard a lot about self- David has a problem with the behavior of certain netizens... improvement for software developers: What I don’t like about multiplayer games is that some I’m the last person to disparage these con- players behave badly. Apparently, the anonymity of the Inter- duits to learning. Although it is commonplace to net is an incentive for some people to let out their inner bully. dismiss these teachers as principle-free cynics Some players act as if trash-talking an opponent gives them who craft their messages to the marketplace, my experience is some advantage. Actually, the reverse is true. Trash-talking an that authors, consultants and conference speakers believe in opponent increases his desire to beat the excrement out of their messages, very often passionately. In general, the money you on the playing field. you spend on this kind of information is money well-spent. Speaking for myself, I like it when someone on the other But when I say “become a better developer,” I’m not talk- team puts on an attitude, because that makes the endgame ing about picking up the basics of a new programming lan- even more fun as my gleaming void rays slash away at his guage, or learning how to manipulate a new set of APIs, or last base, and when it finally explodes into a pile of glittering grokking how to craft code for a new platform, or seeing how rubble, I get to taunt, “Where’s your attitude to translate the principles of a development method into prac- now, Earth-boy?!” tice. Those are all examples of skill acquisition, and skill acqui- Is it worth it for a company to censor and sition is a fine thing. But it doesn’t transform you. punish those who set out to disrupt other peo- Is he on to something? Read the rest of his thoughts at ple’s use of its service? You can read more at www.sdtimes.com/blog/2010. sdt.bz/36628. z