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Design Pioneer Auction at Sothebys
From The Eponymous Pickle

Design Pioneer Auction at Sothebys

Of interest, Includes Apple's SVP of Design, today at 7 PM EST:" ... Two of the world’s foremost design pioneers, Sir Jonathan Ive, KBE, and Marc Newson, CBE, have...

Software as Reorganizing the World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Software as Reorganizing the World

Some provocative views on software and internet influence on  the organization of the world.  Over reaching I think, but interesting.    Will countries eventually...

Google Updates Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Updates Search

This change happened a month plus  ago, but it is worth thinking about.  Have you seen substantial changes in your space?

Search,  Past and Future and Semantic
From The Eponymous Pickle

Search, Past and Future and Semantic

In GigaOM:  the future of search:  " ... As consumers look for the answers to complicated questions via search query, with the help of semantic technology, marketers...

New Tableau with Boxplots and R
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Tableau with Boxplots and R

Have used the Tableau Systems data visualization, we looked at it before it came out of Stanford University around 2002.   I continue to use it, among other visualization...

Big Data and Big Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data and Big Science

In CACM:  About the integration of high performance computing (HPC) and Big Data.  As the article suggests,   the result of this is to create more data.   And I...

Rerouting Internet Traffic by Attacking BGP
From Schneier on Security

Rerouting Internet Traffic by Attacking BGP

Renesys is reporting that Internet traffic is being manipulatively rerouted, presumably for eavesdropping purposes. The attacks exploit flaws in the Border Gateway...

Consortium Forming an Industrial Internet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consortium Forming an Industrial Internet

Via colleague Shoumen Datta:US Consortium Forming an Industrial InternetSAN JOSE, Calif. – As many as ten companies including AT&T, Cisco Systems, GE, IBM, andAnd...

Analytics e-News Newsletter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics e-News Newsletter

Another good resource, and links to papers from Informs, the authoritative resource for modeling and business systems improvement.   Always worth reading.

Big Data and HR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data and HR

In the Atlantic:  Good general, non technical piece.  True as the article says, they are watching you at work.  They are also watching you as you work in your social...

Chocolate Martini Redux
From Wild WebMink

Chocolate Martini Redux

Almost ten years ago I posted a recipe for a very different style of chocolate martini. Most of the variants of this drink I have tried have had a chocolate taste...

Questions for the C-Suite
From The Eponymous Pickle

Questions for the C-Suite

The earliest experiences I had with the global enterprise were working directly with the CEO.   He had built a system that ran on an early desktop, I helped with...

The changing nature of service and experience design
From Putting People First

The changing nature of service and experience design

The ubiquitous nature of smart products and smart systems underscores the fact that the definitions of “service design” and “experience design” are becoming moving...

The intersection of UX, CX & corporate strategy: The holy grail for 21st century business?
From Putting People First

The intersection of UX, CX & corporate strategy: The holy grail for 21st century business?

Chris Allen (CUA – HFI US Sales Director Eastern Region; Global Accounts Director) went to the UX STRAT Conference in Atlanta and came back with one big question...

CSEdWeek poster featuring Susan Wojcicki, Google
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CSEdWeek poster featuring Susan Wojcicki, Google

Passing this along from the CSTA announcement mailing list. It surprises me that women in the computer field were not more willing to take part in this effort by...

iBeacon for Retailers at Macy's
From The Eponymous Pickle

iBeacon for Retailers at Macy's

In TechCrunch: I Had known that Macy's had been doing work with Shopkick for some time.   I have the App on my iPhone.  A favorite experimental topic in our innovation...

PR Firms and the Wikipedia
From The Eponymous Pickle

PR Firms and the Wikipedia

In CIO Today:  I remember being part of a team to decide how we should react to the Wikipedia.  Issue warnings to our employees not to edit it?  When 'public interest'...

Impact of Simulation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Impact of Simulation

Using Simulation:   Well yes, based upon my background I am a big believer.  It is an essential approach of business analytics.   It was the first analytical technique...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Finding Patterns In Ancient Objects

Ancient mathematical objects can still contain secrets Recreational Mathematics source David Singmaster is a mathematician who is now retired from London South...

Update: Acquisti speaking at Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Update: Acquisti speaking at Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour

On Monday, November 25, 2013, Alessandro Acquisti from Carnegie Mellon University will present at the next Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour (WATCH), a...
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