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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata and Fuzzy Logix
Have had a number of conversations with Teradata recently. And I came rather late to this press release about how they were working with a company I had previously...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Books on Big Data Science
Recently sent out to a requesting correspondent:A very readable, up to date book: Big Data: A Revolution that will transform ... by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Entrepreneurial State
Schumpeter: The entrepreneurial state in System Growth Consulting" ... Advanced economies have become near-obsessed with stimulating innovation in their economies...
From Writing
Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js, JavaScript, and Socket.io
The Play Framework takes a functional programming approach to stream processing (e.g. Comet, chunked responses, WebSockets) by using abstractions called Iteratees...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Wonderlabs
Happened to be in an Apple Store today that was packed with people and it seems as many consultants. This is a growing development. In CWorld:Google wants youComputerworld...![[Book] Public and Collaborative](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Public and Collaborative
Public and Collaborative Exploring the intersection of design, social innovation and public policy Ezio Manzini and Eduardo Staszowski (Editors) New York, September...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining SAP's Lumira
During the early phases of Data Visualization we took a look at a number of solutions. SAP was the ERP solution for the enterprise, so we looked at their Business...
From Putting People First
Bruce Sterling on the value of design fiction (and some example videos)
Bruce Sterling’s Wired UK article on the value of design fiction is very much worth a read, as it defines the field so well: “A formal definition exists: “Design...
From Putting People First
An ethnographic study of UK policy making
Professor Alex Stevens of the University of Kent, did quite an unusual ethnographic study – focused on understanding how UK civil servants use evidence in policy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDs 3D Printing in Store
McDonalds Doing 3D Printing in its stores? " ... Fast food chain is also mulling tablets and touchscreen ordering kiosks FAST FOOD CHAIN McDonalds has saidSpeaking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of the Workplace
An ethnographers look: We did a similar investigation. Video. " ... What will the workplace of the future look like? Will it even exist as a physical space?...
From Putting People First
The future of the workplace: through an ethnographer’s eyes
What will the workplace of the future look like? Will it even exist as a physical space? Ever since networked computers first became widespread the idea of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Gathering and Sharing
A very basic but useful idea. " ...Information technology security, big data analysis and interoperability are three of the hottest topics today, particularly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Postmaster Shipping API
Nice to see this development for a government service that is often seen as behind the times. In TechCrunch. Supply chain activities continue to be aided by analytics...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Getting the Most from Conferences
As you may already know, the 2014 CSTA conference on K-12 computer science education will take place July 14 and 15 at the beautiful Pheasant Run resort in St....
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Magnapinna Squid Photo
Neat photo. Video, too. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Opportunity Matters
I was having a conversation with my friend Ken Royal today. I was sharing with him some of the experiences I was able to have over the last couple of years meeting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Thinking from One Observation
In The HBR: Think like anthropologist to understand consumer data. " ... It was hardly what you’d call an “adequate sample size” for market research, but the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog