acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Blogroll


bg-corner

Drinkable Costmetics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drinkable Costmetics

In Cosmeticsdesign: Popular in Asia, "nutricosmetics" could start to make a splash in the West, trend watchers say. The beauty drinks, some of which contain antioxidants...

Analytics IQ
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics IQ

Fascinating piece on consumer financial intelligence:  Analytics-IQ launches industry's most accurate predictor of household economic profiles with "consumer financial...

Turning Data into Smart Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Turning Data into Smart Data

In Information Week:   Fundamentally agree, but it's really more about turning raw data into smarter decisions. I have not lapsed into call everything 'Smarter'...

Recipes and Components
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recipes and Components

Online grocery start up HelloFresh raises 'millions' in funding from Rocket, Kinnevik and others.  More details.   As an amateur cook I like the idea of task lists...

Delete All EMails Simplifies Communications
From The Eponymous Pickle

Delete All EMails Simplifies Communications

In ComputerWorld:   In a review of the new Blackberry phone the idea of a  'delete all' email button is mentioned.  I remember that capability when I used a Backberry...

Taleb on Accepting Uncertainty and Volatility
From The Eponymous Pickle

Taleb on Accepting Uncertainty and Volatility

Nassim Nicholas Taleb reviewing his new book on Accepting Uncertainty, Embracing Volatility  in  Knowledge@Wharton.    Over the years I have talked to many vendors...

Big Data Startup to Solve Healthcare
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Startup to Solve Healthcare

Vincent Granville looks at a way to have big data fix healthcare.  Even if Data Science does not solve the whole problem, the exercise might be valuable.  An interesting...

P&G CEO Drives Steps for Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G CEO Drives Steps for Analytics

In InformationWeek:    More from P&G's CEO on the relevance of analytics.  He gives key steps in making analytics work in the large enterprise:  Putting it at the...

Business Analytics in Retail: The Book
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Analytics in Retail: The Book

Large companies can afford the ability to use consultants who can help them understand such terms as 'Business Intelligence'. 'Predictive Analytics', "Big Data'...

Force Feedback for Smartphones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Force Feedback for Smartphones

Research ongoing to produce force feedback that could ultimately be used on a smartphone.    This opens some interesting new sensor applications, on games certainly...

Making Internal Collaboration Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Internal Collaboration Work

McKinsey Quarterly interview with Don Tapscott:   " .... The author and strategist describes why effective knowledge management within enterprises requires replacing...

An Internet for Manufacturing
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Internet for Manufacturing

In Technology Review: Each product will remember and record how it was made, and what raw material components made it.   That is a powerfully useful stream of information...

Junaio Augmented Reality on the Second Screen
From The Eponymous Pickle

Junaio Augmented Reality on the Second Screen

Recently received and of interest.   Adding Augmented reality information to the TV screen.  I hope to watch this.  Note that the TV show is in German.  Will attempt...

IBM PureSystems
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM PureSystems

Had cause to take a look at applications that could do pattern recognition and was pointed to IBM PureSystems, mentioned here.   " ... With the new PureSystemsCheck...

Digital Disruption and Engagement Relevance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Disruption and Engagement Relevance

In Adage: Digital Disruption Can Make TV Ads More, Not Less, RelevantHow An Era of Direct Relationships Will Give New Life to TV Ads  By: James McQuivey of Forrester...

Abolish the Patent System
From The Eponymous Pickle

Abolish the Patent System

Two economists argue in this paper that the patent system should be eliminated.  I agree, most of what I have seen in that system system has been garbage, and just...

Analytics Skills
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics Skills

A fairly good list of things that are useful to be a successful analytics provider. Some of these are more generally good consulting skills.  In particular, I emphasize...

Fitness Gamification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fitness Gamification

Again, what would appear to be an ideal application to embody in an engaging game.   And with an App to be taken anywhere.  And gather data. Wharton discussesFrom...

Cloud As Innovation Enabler in Consumer Goods
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cloud As Innovation Enabler in Consumer Goods

A set of observations about what is going on in Consumer Products from Smarter Planet.  Some good examples of innovations to follow from the use of the Cloud.  ...

Choosing a Pie Critique
From The Eponymous Pickle

Choosing a Pie Critique

Most of us who do data visualization know that the Pie Chart form is rarely a good choice for displaying comparative data to promote understanding.   Though I have...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account