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Remembering Douglas Engelbart
From The Eponymous Pickle

Remembering Douglas Engelbart

Ted Talks on his visionary work." ... One of the pioneers of the Internet and graphic user interfaces, Engelbart is perhaps best known for inventing the computer...

The Influence of Showrooming
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Influence of Showrooming

Lots of fears regarding the influence of 'showrooming' in driving place of purchase ..." ... But a study released Thursday from Columbia Business School and loyalty...

Macy's Using Data and Showing Restraint
From The Eponymous Pickle

Macy's Using Data and Showing Restraint

From the D2 Conference in Cincinnati via AdAdge:   " ... Macy's sees plenty of value in data-driven marketing and believes consumers should hear more from marketers...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Teacher Teach Yourself

How teaching helps you understand proofs Stanislav Žák is a theorist who has made important contributions to complexity theory. He was at the Institute for Computation...

Tableau 8 Guide
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tableau 8 Guide

Recently released:  Tableau 8: The Official Guide   by George Peck I am in the midst of a project that specifies this, and searched for several fairly obscure things...

Instant Entrepreneurship
From The Eponymous Pickle

Instant Entrepreneurship

From the Front End of Innovation: Is Instant Entrepreneurship the future?  More importantly, what precisely is it?   Was the first I head of it:Interview with  ...

Gmail Visualization Tool
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gmail Visualization Tool

An visual analysis of Gmail as metadata using Immersion from MIT.  Have take a quick look at this, and as the article suggests, more art than useful visual.  But...

Did I Actually Say That?
From Schneier on Security

Did I Actually Say That?

I'm quoted (also here) as using this analogy to explain how IT companies will be damaged by the news that they've been collaborating with the NSA: "How would it...

To succeed, adopt the post-industrial view
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

To succeed, adopt the post-industrial view

From time to time, students ask me wether such degree or certificate in computer science will help them get a good job. There is no shortage of studies showing...

CSTA Voice Moving to E-Distribution
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CSTA Voice Moving to E-Distribution

Like many non-profit institutions, CSTA is always looking for new, more efficient ways to do business and for ways to keep CSTA membership free of charge for individual...

Ahalogy for Content Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ahalogy for Content Marketing

Brought to my attention, formerly Pingage, now Ahalogy.  Previously I wrote about Pingage." ... We're building Ahalogy (formerly Pingage) to solve one simple problem...

Linking Small Business to Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linking Small Business to Innovation

In Innovation Excellence:  How can small business spot innovation and connect to it?  " ... Our businesses evolve and go through so many changes on a regular basis...

Experientia workshop on strategic UX design for Taiwanese businesses
From Putting People First

Experientia workshop on strategic UX design for Taiwanese businesses

Taiwan meets Italy this week, in a series of workshops and company visits hosted by Experientia for Taiwanese business people. The 15 chief customer experience...

From Computational Complexity

Cryptography and the NSA

Back at Northwestern I occasionally taught an undergraduate cryptography class since I was the local expert in the field (a statement not even remotely true atAdvanced...

Ed Felten on the NSA Disclosures
From Schneier on Security

Ed Felten on the NSA Disclosures

Ed Felten has an excellent essay on the damage caused by the NSA secretly breaking the security of Internet systems: In security, the worst case -- the thing you...

1000 Robots for An Hour of Code
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

1000 Robots for An Hour of Code

BirdBrain Technologies has announced their intention to lend out 1,000 Finch robots as their contribution to this year's Computer Science Education Week and Code...

What are users up to when they have an experience?
From Putting People First

What are users up to when they have an experience?

Understanding the experience of using an object depends on understanding the context of use, argues Jeff Doemland in UX Magazine. However, “The prevailing understanding...

Managing Customer Experience
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Customer Experience

An impressive writeup about how companies like McDonald's are attempting to manage customer experience.  Can it really be optimized, as they say, when people are...

Matthew Green Speculates on How the NSA Defeats Encryption
From Schneier on Security

Matthew Green Speculates on How the NSA Defeats Encryption

This blog post is well worth reading, and not just because Johns Hopkins University asked him to remove it, and then backed down a few hours later.

The consumer has spoken but is anyone listening?
From Putting People First

The consumer has spoken but is anyone listening?

One would expect that listening to your customers’ needs and wants is a basic prerequisite for any business active in a competitive industry. It also is understandable...
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