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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Kenneth and Laurel Appel, In Memoriam

Mapping out the landscape of a proof composite of src1, src2 Kenneth and Laurel Appel, our friend Andrew Appel’s father and sister, passed away in the past two...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Risk Perception
From Schneier on Security

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Risk Perception

From his Facebook page: An illustration of how the news are largely created, bloated and magnified by journalists. I have been in Lebanon for the past 24h, and...

Advice for Returning CEOs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advice for Returning CEOs

Knowledge @ Wharton provides a history and analysis of returning CEOs,  see my note on P&G's AG Lafley's return.    Asking if the 'Gamble' will pay off.  Instructive...

Challenges for Health in a Networked Society
From Apophenia

Challenges for Health in a Networked Society


Resurgent CDB
From Wild WebMink

Resurgent CDB

Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: What does the Woolwich murder teach us about the need for the Communications Data Bill? Nothing at all; the security...

Whats New on Lafely's List
From The Eponymous Pickle

Whats New on Lafely's List

In AdAge:  I liked the fact that his predecessor, Bob McDonald, seemed to be emphasizing the analytical in finding ways to improve business.  Yet soon found that...

Analytics Summit this Friday
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics Summit this Friday

Last chance, this Friday .... contact numbers below ... I unfortunately will be out of town, but looks to be good." ... Analytics Summit 2013  will be held on May...

Rise of Mobile Only
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rise of Mobile Only

In a look at potential C suite users for business intelligence applications we quickly discovered a large number of users that are now mobile only.   More thanThe...

From Computational Complexity

Theory Jobs 2013

Time for the annual spring jobs posts. Like last year, I set up a Google Spreadsheet that everyone can edit so we can crowd source who is going where next year....

The Politics of Security in a Democracy
From Schneier on Security

The Politics of Security in a Democracy

Terrorism causes fear, and we overreact to that fear. Our brains aren't very good at probability and risk analysis. We tend to exaggerate spectacular, strange and...

What’s In It For The Company?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

What’s In It For The Company?

Last night there was some chatter on Twitter about news that The World’s First LEGO School Set to Open in Denmark! It’s an interesting idea with a goal to include...

An Age of Smart Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Age of Smart Machines

In the Economist:  Can we, will the knowledge worker be replaced and when?   Kurt Vonnegut is invoked from his novel Piano Player.   We certainly believed this "...

Crash course in modern economics
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Crash course in modern economics

I sometimes find it difficult to understand the financial news. So I have written down some notes to help me understand commonly used terms: Austerity: When a government...

Information Insertion at Point of Need
From The Eponymous Pickle

Information Insertion at Point of Need

From the BBC: What a good ridiculously simple idea, a sticker applied to Mercedes vehicles that contains a QR code, which directs first responders to rescue methods...

Designer Storytelling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designer Storytelling

Artifacts and more in storytelling.    You would think that today the universality of information technology would always bring it to the forefront as a required...

BBC on exploring and enhancing the TV user experience
From Putting People First

BBC on exploring and enhancing the TV user experience

The BBC’s R&D department has been working on how to exploit the interactive functionality now available through connected televisions through a number of projects...

Social networks of mobile money in Kenya
From Putting People First

Social networks of mobile money in Kenya

Social networks of mobile money in Kenya Sibel Kusimba, Harpieth Chaggar, Elizabeth Gross, & Gabriel Kunyu Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion...

A selection from academia.edu
From Putting People First

A selection from academia.edu

Academia.edu, the platform for academics to share research papers, contains quite a few documents from fields such as design research, experience design and interaction...

Interesting Links 27 May 2013
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 27 May 2013

Memorial Day in the US today. Today we remember the men and women who have fallen in battle serving their county in the military. My Dad didn’t die in battle though...

Fragility and Convexity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fragility and Convexity

Long on my reading list, this essay by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.   Some fascinating thoughts:   " ... The point we will be making here is that logically, neither trial...
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