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UC in Top 20 of Big Data Analytics Schools
From The Eponymous Pickle

UC in Top 20 of Big Data Analytics Schools

Via Jeff Camm Dean at the OBAIS program of the University of Cincinnati who reports that   " ... our MS Business Analytics program is listed in Information Week...

Drop a Cam into the Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drop a Cam into the Network

Brought to my attention via CES: Dropcam.  A way to quickly and inexpensively drop a camera into a Wifi network.   And export the video to the cloud for recording...

Focus groups are dangerous and kill innovation
From Putting People First

Focus groups are dangerous and kill innovation

Gianfranco Zaccai is co-founder and president of the global design and innovation consultancy Continuum. And he doesn’t like focus groups very much (and neither...

Ethnographic research on vehicular design in China
From Putting People First

Ethnographic research on vehicular design in China

Zach Hyman is based in Chongqing, China on a year long ethnographic dive into creative practices of vehicular design among resource-constrained users. After four...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Back To The Past

The role of social interaction in mathematics Charlotte Simmons started her career as a pure mathematician, later moving into the history of mathematics. She is...

Denial-of-Service Attack Against Facebook
From Schneier on Security

Denial-of-Service Attack Against Facebook

Just claim the person is dead. All you need to do is fake an online obituary.

Any Good Voronoi Code Out There?
From My Biased Coin

Any Good Voronoi Code Out There?

Help! I've got a wacky idea I'd like to explore (pseudo-preliminary-pre-research stage) which will require some code, namely for Voronoi diagrams.  What I'd like...

Enterprise and Consumer IT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enterprise and Consumer IT

Report on the crossover treatment between consumer and enterprise information technology, as presented in the CES conference.  IT will have to worry about the increasingly...

Forrester on SAP Big Data Predictive Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Forrester on SAP Big Data Predictive Analytics

An SAP press release that presents their current offerings and work in the space.  " ... today announced that it has been ranked by Forrester Research Inc. as a...

Cat Smuggler
From Schneier on Security

Cat Smuggler

Not a cat burglar, a cat smuggler. Guards thought there was something suspicious about a little white cat slipping through a prison gate in northeastern Brazil...

Year of the Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Year of the Internet of Things

From  Technology Review:  Some thoughts about the internet of things.  Everything tagged and tracked.  Is that day finally here?

Library of Congress Saves Tweets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Library of Congress Saves Tweets

As mentioned previously the US Library of Congress is starting to save tweets.  Now over 500 million a day are being archived.   Researchers are already asking...

OSU, Allostatix Link to Measure Health
From The Eponymous Pickle

OSU, Allostatix Link to Measure Health

Some time ago I mentioned Allostatix, a company that has developed a means to construct an overall health measure, based on what is called the allostatic load, See...

Price Matching Online
From The Eponymous Pickle

Price Matching Online

In TheVerge: Target says they will start price-matching Amazon year round.   As an attempt in part to defer losses to to show rooming activities of mobile enabled...

White House Staff Indicates Machine-Readable Data Will Become Normal Practice; Echoes USACM Recommendations From 2009
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

White House Staff Indicates Machine-Readable Data Will Become Normal Practice; Echoes USACM Recommendations From 2009

During his appearance at a meeting of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park indicated that there...

Procedural Rhetoric and Theme in The Walking Dead
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Procedural Rhetoric and Theme in The Walking Dead

I've been thinking about procedural rhetoric and its relationship to a particular theme in a story. For example, a major theme in The Walking Dead is humanity:...

Beating A Dead FRAND
From Wild WebMink

Beating A Dead FRAND

Of course FRAND terms are incompatible with software freedom, even if you can find a project that has devised a construct to allow it to attempt to accommodate...

DHS Gets to Spy on Everyone
From Schneier on Security

DHS Gets to Spy on Everyone

This Wall Street Journal investigative piece is a month old, but well worth reading. Basically, the Total Information Awareness program is back with a different...

Reversi Sample Code
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Reversi Sample Code

One of my earliest attempts at programming a computer to play against me was a version of Reversi I attempted some30+ years ago. Reversi is a great game for this...

Cisco Seeks to Tame the Videoscape
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cisco Seeks to Tame the Videoscape

It has been a while since I have written about Cisco, despite working with them for years in the enterprise.    We actively used video in our innovation centers...
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