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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining SAP's Lumira
During the early phases of Data Visualization we took a look at a number of solutions. SAP was the ERP solution for the enterprise, so we looked at their Business...
From Putting People First
Bruce Sterling on the value of design fiction (and some example videos)
Bruce Sterling’s Wired UK article on the value of design fiction is very much worth a read, as it defines the field so well: “A formal definition exists: “Design...
From Putting People First
An ethnographic study of UK policy making
Professor Alex Stevens of the University of Kent, did quite an unusual ethnographic study – focused on understanding how UK civil servants use evidence in policy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDs 3D Printing in Store
McDonalds Doing 3D Printing in its stores? " ... Fast food chain is also mulling tablets and touchscreen ordering kiosks FAST FOOD CHAIN McDonalds has saidSpeaking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of the Workplace
An ethnographers look: We did a similar investigation. Video. " ... What will the workplace of the future look like? Will it even exist as a physical space?...
From Putting People First
The future of the workplace: through an ethnographer’s eyes
What will the workplace of the future look like? Will it even exist as a physical space? Ever since networked computers first became widespread the idea of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Gathering and Sharing
A very basic but useful idea. " ...Information technology security, big data analysis and interoperability are three of the hottest topics today, particularly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Postmaster Shipping API
Nice to see this development for a government service that is often seen as behind the times. In TechCrunch. Supply chain activities continue to be aided by analytics...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Getting the Most from Conferences
As you may already know, the 2014 CSTA conference on K-12 computer science education will take place July 14 and 15 at the beautiful Pheasant Run resort in St....
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Magnapinna Squid Photo
Neat photo. Video, too. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Opportunity Matters
I was having a conversation with my friend Ken Royal today. I was sharing with him some of the experiences I was able to have over the last couple of years meeting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Thinking from One Observation
In The HBR: Think like anthropologist to understand consumer data. " ... It was hardly what you’d call an “adequate sample size” for market research, but the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: Proposals for Visioning Activities due December 1
In September, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) put out a call for visioning proposals for workshops that will create exciting visions and agendas for research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Pioneer Auction at Sothebys
Of interest, Includes Apple's SVP of Design, today at 7 PM EST:" ... Two of the world’s foremost design pioneers, Sir Jonathan Ive, KBE, and Marc Newson, CBE, have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Software as Reorganizing the World
Some provocative views on software and internet influence on the organization of the world. Over reaching I think, but interesting. Will countries eventually...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Updates Search
This change happened a month plus ago, but it is worth thinking about. Have you seen substantial changes in your space?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search, Past and Future and Semantic
In GigaOM: the future of search: " ... As consumers look for the answers to complicated questions via search query, with the help of semantic technology, marketers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Tableau with Boxplots and R
Have used the Tableau Systems data visualization, we looked at it before it came out of Stanford University around 2002. I continue to use it, among other visualization...
From The Eponymous Pickle