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Updating the Shopping Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

Updating the Shopping Center

They seem to be dying.  Yet they still work in much more focused applications as places to display and buy.  In Shopperception.  " ... Despite the rising numbers...

Interesting Links 2 September 2013
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 2 September 2013

It’s Labor Day in the US and schools are closed here. It’s actually the fourth day in a four day weekend for my school. Some how it always feels like this letsThe...

Top Data Science Languages
From The Eponymous Pickle

Top Data Science Languages

Vincent Granville usefully summarizes a survey of language use. Top Languages for analytics, data mining, data science:Very interesting study published by KDNuggets...

Ericsson Report: Identifying the needs of tomorrow’s video consumers
From Putting People First

Ericsson Report: Identifying the needs of tomorrow’s video consumers

The Ericsson ConsumerLab TV & Media 2013 report (presentation) looks at how the explosion of connected mobile devices in the home has opened a whole new world of...

Consulting Excellence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consulting Excellence

Former colleague Ed Peak's consulting blog site.  We met last week and he has an impressive portfolio.   ' ... Leveraging Information Technology ... Improving your...

BBC R&D launched the UX Research Partnership
From Putting People First

BBC R&D launched the UX Research Partnership

Some weeks ago the BBC announced the BBC User Experience Research Partnership, a long-term collaboration project between BBC Research and Development (BBC R&D)...

1983 Article on the NSA
From Schneier on Security

1983 Article on the NSA

The moral is that NSA surveillance overreach has been going on for a long, long time.

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

More on the Diagonal

A different angle on the Halting Problem src Rudolf Carnap was a German-born philosopher who became a mainstay of the famous “Vienna Circle.” Kurt Gödel often visited...

How Google Glass Disrupts The Sports Image Monopoly
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How Google Glass Disrupts The Sports Image Monopoly

I was attending a golf tournament this weekend. So naturally my thoughts turned to technology. Yes it was everywhere. But the most disruptive technology was inDeutsche...

How Should History Affect Funding Decisions?
From My Biased Coin

How Should History Affect Funding Decisions?

As I go through the reviews from my latest NSF proposal, there are general high-level comments related to my past work.  This leads to an interesting and perhaps...

Rexamining Excel 2013
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rexamining Excel 2013

In preparation for a conversion to a more generalized data visualization system I have been exploring Excel 2013 use for visualization.   It is commonly used in...

Transition to Mobile Devices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Transition to Mobile Devices

Considering the issues with transitioning to mobile devices.  Much talked these days. " ... The post-PC era is not marked by the extinction of personal computers...

How we do user research in agile teams
From Putting People First

How we do user research in agile teams

Getting user research into agile teams in a way that is timely, relevant and actionable is a challenge that teams the world over are tackling. Working effectively...

Googling yourself takes on a whole new meaning
From Putting People First

Googling yourself takes on a whole new meaning

CLive Thompson used Google Glass for six weeks. He discusses the latest in high-tech eyewear in the New York Times Magazine. “With Glass, I eventually settled upon...

The web giants pumping us for data
From Putting People First

The web giants pumping us for data

As society becomes more networked, the information available to the Googles, Amazons and Facebooks of this world will increase exponentially. “As society becomes...

Abraham Maslow and the pyramid that beguiled business
From Putting People First

Abraham Maslow and the pyramid that beguiled business

The psychologist Abraham Maslow’s theory of human motivation is 70 years old but continues to have a strong influence on the world of business. What is it, and...

XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students - The Complexities of Privacy and Anonymity Volume 20 Issue 1, Fall 2013
From XRDS

XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students - The Complexities of Privacy and Anonymity Volume 20 Issue 1, Fall 2013


Equip Yourself for Creativity
From XRDS

Equip Yourself for Creativity

Peter Kinnaird, Inbal Talgam-Cohen

Inbox
From XRDS

Inbox

XRDS Staff

Keeping Your Little Back Shop
From XRDS

Keeping Your Little Back Shop

Maire Byrne-Evans, Christine Task
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