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From The Eponymous Pickle

Oracle Mobile Client for Supply Chain

New on Oracle and Supply Chains. I like that these systems are being delivered for mobile use. Linking to sensors and other real time connections makes sense... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 16, 2011 at 03:57 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Building Bosses

Google, using analytical methods, discovers that it is listening and asking good questions that are better qualities of a manager than having deep technical experise... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 16, 2011 at 03:23 PM

From Computational Complexity

TAMC conference accepts are out/What does a name tell you about a general theory conference?

The TAMC conference list-of-accepts is posted here. TAMC stands for Theory and Application of Models of Computation. For general theory conferences does theFoundations... GASARCH
From Computational Complexity | March 16, 2011 at 02:28 PM

From Putting People First

Faculty openings in design & human engineering at UNIST in Korea

In December Experientia signed a five-year research and education collaboration agreement with the Design and Human Engineering School (DHE) of the Ulsan National... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 16, 2011 at 01:35 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-03-16

GNU Free Call Announced This looks like an excellent initiative to create a decentralised voice-over-Internet service. Timely and necessary. (tags: Telephony FOSS... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | March 16, 2011 at 01:03 PM

From Schneier on Security

Hacking Cars with MP3 Files

Impressive research: By adding extra code to a digital music file, they were able to turn a song burned to CD into a Trojan horse. When played on the car's stereo... schneier
From Schneier on Security | March 16, 2011 at 11:14 AM

From Putting People First

Why user experience cannot be designed

Helge Fredheim wrote a smart article in Smashing Magazine to clarify why UX cannot be designed. “Several models of UX have been suggested, some of which are based... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 16, 2011 at 10:10 AM

From Putting People First

How honest should smart devices be?

David Sherwin reflects on the frog design blog about the SXSW conference, starting from the questions raised in the contribution by Genevieve Bell (director of... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 16, 2011 at 09:53 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Rebirth of DIY Software Development

In the heady, exciting, almost wild West atmosphere of the early days of PCs it seemed like almost everyone I knew was writing software in hopes of making a little... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 16, 2011 at 08:53 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Mobile Updated

I see that the Google mobile App for the IPhone and iPad have been updated to include a much easier to use interface. More here. Works particularly well for searching... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 16, 2011 at 03:09 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

The Honesty of Smart Devices

How Honest should a smart device be? In Design Mind. Cultural anthropologists look at the interaction of devices, data and the expectations of human behavior... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 16, 2011 at 02:11 AM

From Putting People First

Tough Sell: Selling User Experience

Misha W. Vaughan, architect of applications user experience at Oracle USA, reflects in this interesting, small article for the February 2011 issue of the Journal... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 15, 2011 at 05:51 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Testing Phone-as-Wallet

Some reports via Ars Technica about Google testing the NFC short range capability for SmartPhones. There were rumors about the IPhone including NFC this year,... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 15, 2011 at 04:39 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Bringing R to the Data Warehouse

Given the increasing use of R in academia, this makes much sense. Increasingly people come out of school with knowledge of the Open Source package and its application... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 15, 2011 at 04:34 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

The Moving Value of an Impression

Good recent piece in AdAge Digital. As I sit in a restaurant watching a number of people heads-down on smartphones. The attention budget we have is clearly now... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 15, 2011 at 04:23 PM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

My Great Canadian Appathon Experience

This past weekend was the Great Canadian Appathon, a 48-hour game design and development competition. I was on Team Harmony with some of the guys who helped out... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | March 15, 2011 at 03:19 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-03-15

Open Source Software Hits a Strategic Tipping Point – Laurie Wurster – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review It is confirmed; open source has hit the top of... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | March 15, 2011 at 01:01 PM

From Putting People First

Experientia intern wins UNICEF 2010 INDEX design challenge

Experientia intern, Ane Eguiguren, together with her team partner Fran Experientia
From Putting People First | March 15, 2011 at 12:20 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Heuristics

How do we learn? How do we develop strategy in games, in work, in our daily lives? We store information and we use information from the past to decide what will... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 15, 2011 at 09:33 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

KMart Tests AT&T Geolocated ShopAlerts

A not unexpected next step. The use of geo-fencing to understand location and react to it with push marketing. Most interesting will be how consumers buy into... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 15, 2011 at 03:15 AM