Interesting background on Ayasdi (literally, “to seek,” in Cherokee, perhaps sparking the newest trend in startup names deriving from indigenous languages) and

Interesting background on Ayasdi (literally, “to seek,” in Cherokee, perhaps sparking the newest trend in startup names deriving from indigenous languages) and its DARPA roots: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/ayasdi-a-big-data-start-up-with-a-long-history/?_r=0 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/ayasdi-a-big-data-s... And a link to founder and Stanford Math Prof. Gunnar Carlsson's seminal AMS paper on "Topology and Data": http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2009-46-02/S0273-0979-09-01249-X/ http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2009-46-02/S0273-0979-09-01...