Communications of the ACM
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September 2011
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bob Herbold's New Book and Blog
I have noted this before, but my boss at Procter & Gamble, Bob Herbold, was our SVP and later spent seven years as the Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft. He has a blog and has just published a book called: What's Holding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Health Problems
As we gather more data about health conditions, it is natural to look at the relationship over time between these sensory readings and conditions. And also the connection between seemingly unrelated conditions. The basic idea…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Based Brain Scanning
Another interesting sensory application: " A team of researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have developed a portable EEG system powered by a Nokia N900 smartphone. In addition to the phone, the portable EEG…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
This month’s
From Schneier on Security
Making Fake ATMs Using 3D Printers
One group stole $400K.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Fish Fly
How excited am I about the Partners in Learning Global Forum? I
From Wild WebMink
Think Before You Give!
Should You Donate To Open Source Projects? Donating money to your favourite open source project may not be the first thing you should do. Support the sources of income for the co-developers first. Read more on ComputerWorldUK……
From My Biased Coin
Set Competition
As an applied probability exercise, I had my class compute empirically the probability of a game failing on the nth round for the game of Set. (See my previous post about this; here failure means there's no set on the nth round…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Games as a Great Starting Point
I'm always looking for new ways to start off my computer science and robotics classes. It used to be that every intro class started off with a "Hello World" program. It was the quickest way to have students see a result on …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablets Likely to Come Out After Dark
New statistics reported on tablet use. I would agree, I often use tablets as a 'second screen' as an auxiliary information device for TV or Radio. Can that fact be used to leverage new methods of marketing?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation by Embracing Failure
In the WSJ: A friend sends me a good article on how companies are addressing risk aversion in edgy economic times. Includes mention of outright rewards for disclosed failure by Gray Advertising and Procter & Gamble's Future…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Analytics for Legacy BI
Always interesting Doug Lautzenheiser discusses in his business intelligence blog the use of text analytics techniques to search code libraries in enterprises for modernizing their function. A novel approach that can greatly…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Fish Fly
How excited am I about the Partners in Learning Global Forum? I’m seriously thinking of taking vacation days and paying my own way to Washington DC to see if I can “crash” it. I had a great time and learned a lot judging theInnovative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hotels Becoming More Social
As frequent travelers we participated in brainstorming sessions for several large hotel chains five years ago. We leveraged our expertise in in-context innovation to help. Part of what we proposed then was a 'social module'…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will Gaming and Advertising Overlap?
A response by two young CEOs in FastCompany. It has become a point of contention recently. My answer: In a way that they will produce value for companies.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Among Presidential Early Career Awardees
Yesterday, the White House named
From Schneier on Security
Problems with Mac OS X Lion Passwords
Seems like some dumb mistakes.
News article.
From Putting People First
Low2No Camp: entrepreneurial ideas to activate Low2No vision
Article by Experientia collaborator Irene Cassarino, with additional input from Jan-Christoph Zoels. How do you create community services and business models for a carbon neutral building block before the buildings stand? Thirty…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Robotics @ Home Competition
The Microsoft Robotics team has released a new software stack for controlling robots
From Putting People First
From mass consumerism to mass change: Hope for sustainable consumption
In an article for Shareable, Caren Holzman presents trends that signal “a reversal in the way that consumers value and use products and services”: “A global culture of consumerism has firmly taken hold
From Putting People First
Invigorating education with technology
Techcrunch reports on a recent set of rapid-fire presentations from Imagine K12, an incubator for education-related startups. On the one hand, the innovation taking place in the educational world is fascinating and possibly greatly…
From Putting People First
The end of motoring
Highly recommended read in The Guardian on the end of the golden age of motoring (or for non-Brits: car travel): “The most radical change [according to German entrepreneur Stefan Liske] is that “in big societies, there is a huge…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interdisciplinary Computing
Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk writes the Interdisciplinary computing blog. I have mentioned this effort before, but have just revisited it before meeting with her. The concept is important, but often forgotten. She writes" ... I am…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Data Mining for Global Change: Furthering Science, Knowledge
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Karsten
From The Eponymous Pickle
My Apps Floweth Over
I have noticed it happen. Every possible publication, newsletter, alert, actual application, search notification, political group, neighborhood group, conference, NGO, charitable group and game now has its own App. I downloaded…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Analytics
TDWI report on big data analytics. " ... Big data analytics is the intersection of two technical entities that have come together. First, there
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brandwashed Review
Good balanced review of Martin Lindstrom's just published Brandwashed book. Emphasizes Lindstrom's insider view of the marketing world. I have mentioned his book here a number of times, including some example videos. Good…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Launching a New Product on Facebook
In Mashable: Good piece on using Facebook commercially. I have my doubts that it has a great influence specifically in new product launches. But where ever millions of people gather, marketers should be there as well. Certainly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ZuluTime and Shopper Location
More on what the location based interaction innovator Zulutime is doing in retail. I am continuing to follow their work and will post my findings here. " ... The ZuluTime
From Computational Complexity
Moneyball
I saw Moneyball over the weekend. This movie gives a fictionalized account of the how the general manager of the 2002 Oakland A's used the right kind of statistics to build a strong team with a low budget. This article on the…