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From Putting People First

Human-centred design for sustainable development on an urban scale

The built environment is now the largest negative factor in the stability of ecosystems and the climate. As populations become increasingly urbanized, the evolution... Experientia
From Putting People First | May 12, 2009 at 04:44 PM

From Putting People First

Johanna Brewer about ethnography and design

Nicolas Nova reports on a lecture by Johanna Brewer about “What can ethnography do for technology?” Brewer, who is a PhD candidate in the Informatics department... Experientia
From Putting People First | May 12, 2009 at 04:34 PM

From Putting People First

Business Innovation Factory launches Student Experience Lab

The non-profit Business Innovation Factory (BIF) yesterday launched a new laboratory to enable innovation in higher education. The lab will support the design of... Experientia
From Putting People First | May 12, 2009 at 03:29 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-05-12

Open Participation Software for Java "OPS4J stands for Open Participation Software for Java, and this community is trying to build... webmink
From Wild WebMink | May 12, 2009 at 02:30 PM

From insideHPC

Cambridge builds supercomputer cloud for SMB,

Found at ITPro, an article on U of Cambridge (UK) plans to open up its supercomputing infrastructure for small businesses and other universities that need excess... John West
From insideHPC | May 12, 2009 at 02:29 PM

From insideHPC

The winner of the first week’s prize in the “Bribery is Fair Play” survey contest, that is. The winner was long time reader Kevin Buterbaugh. He is already the... John West
From insideHPC | May 12, 2009 at 02:16 PM

From insideHPC

Argonne researchers receive award for MPI performance

This just in via email, news that a research team from Argonne National Lab has been selected as one of the award winners at this year’s John West
From insideHPC | May 12, 2009 at 02:02 PM

From insideHPC

Penguin Powers U of Florida HPC Phase

Penguin Computing, today, announced details that the University of Florida’s High Performance Computing Center Phase III installation will be a Penguin integrated... John Leidel
From insideHPC | May 12, 2009 at 01:56 PM

From insideHPC

HLRS Deploys NEC/QDR

Voltaire Ltd, popular Infiniband vendor, has announced that the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart [HLRS] has deployed a new cluster based on their quad... John Leidel
From insideHPC | May 12, 2009 at 01:47 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Earned Media

Jonah Bloom on public relations and 'earned media'. Includes a number of principles that are well worth considering. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 12, 2009 at 01:37 PM

From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Two Projects in the PipelineAmbassador: Catherine Lang, Australia

The Australian ACM-W Ambassador has two exciting projects in the pipeline this year. The first, Digital Divas targets junior secondary school students. It is a... ACMW
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing | May 12, 2009 at 11:00 AM

From Putting People First

Bringing the everyday life of people into design

“Bringing the everyday life of people into design” is the title of a doctoral dissertation that Froukje Sleeswijk Visser is defending today to obtain her doctoral... Experientia
From Putting People First | May 12, 2009 at 10:51 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Announcing: The Shopper Marketing Lab

A radical and valuable idea, from Dave Katz, more details as they emerge:CLIENTONE INTRODUCES SHOPPER MARKETING 2.0 THE SHOPPER MARKETING LAB SHOPPER DATA SETSATLANTA... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 12, 2009 at 04:17 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

SAP Expands BI Strategy

At the current Sapphire meeting SAP has announced a number of expansions of its business intelligence capabilities. These appear to be quite innovative in their... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 12, 2009 at 12:38 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Customer Loyalty a Bad Thing?

Provocative thought, Many efforts underway to promote loyalty. Is is always a good thing? From Harvard Business Publishing: ... It might be tempting to pamper... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 11, 2009 at 08:29 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Catching Up With Hunch

Last week, I stopped by the Hunch office to learn more about what they’re doing, as well as to contribute my own thoughts about socially enhanced decision making... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 11, 2009 at 06:14 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Catching Up With Hunch

Last week, I stopped by the Hunch office to learn more about what they’re doing, as well as to contribute my own thoughts about socially enhanced decision making... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 11, 2009 at 06:14 PM

From insideHPC

ANL

The NSF.gov site is running a video interview with Kate Keahey of the Nimbus project, a cloud computing infrastructure developed at Argonne National Lab. Nimbus... John West
From insideHPC | May 11, 2009 at 02:53 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-05-11

Linux Breaking Through The Microsoft Monopoly Excellent and encouraging analysis from Robin here. Scott McNealy has been saying... webmink
From Wild WebMink | May 11, 2009 at 02:30 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

MySears Community

Recently I took a look at Sears new IPhone application. Not very exciting, but it works well. They are continuing with a social networking called MySears. The... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 11, 2009 at 02:19 PM