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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
Disruptive Technologies from McKinsey
McKinsey looks at disruptive technologies. " ... Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy, a report from the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Big Data Means
Bob Inmon provides a useful Venn diagram to describe what Big Data is and how it relates to other kinds of data. Text is certainly the most important part of unstructured...
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Collaboration with Lists and Search
In CWorld: Short view on the continued evolution of collaboration software. Its acceptance within the enterprise. As they say there, this started with a very...
From Putting People First
Participatory design in healthcare
Participatory Design in Healthcare: Patients and doctors can bridge critical information gaps is the title of a UX Magazine article by Andrii Glushko, a UX designer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gary Cokins on EPM Analytics
A piece that overviews some of Gary Cokin's view on analytics. Have read and passed a few of his columns. Well done. He talks about Enterprise Performance Management...
From Putting People First
Technology puts power in the hands of the Millennial Generation
This week the Financial Times has run two reports on the Millennial Generation. Part Two (pdf) came out today, whereas Part One is from June 3. Part Two’s leading...
From Putting People First
The future of human-centered design
“Throughout my career, and especially as a designer at IDEO,” writes Nathan Waterhouse, “I’ve been a passionate believer of the value of placing people first, of...
From Schneier on Security
The Cost of Terrorism in Pakistan
This study claims "terrorism has cost Pakistan around 33.02% of its real national income" between the years 1973 and 2008, or about 1% per year. The St. Louis$100...
From Putting People First
Experientia presentation at EPIC London
EPIC, the premier international gathering on the current and future practice of ethnography in the business world, just announced the program of its upcoming conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Indoor Positioning and Navigation
An important approach for retail navigation applications. We studied this for a number of inventory and checkout applications. Also in conjunction with tagging...
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Wisee Body Gesture Recognition
A UK correspondent sends along a BBC article on the use of Wifi for gesture recognition. We explored how gestures might be used in the store aisle. The simpler...
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FTC Looks at Internet of Things
An upcoming FTC workshop that looks to be of interest. The emphasis in consumer applications: " ... The workshop aims to help the FTC get to grips with this...
From Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2013)
I'm at the Sixth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2013). This year we're in Los Angeles, at USC -- hosted by CREATE. My description...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Video: Hello World in TouchDevelop
I’ve decided that a tool as visual and touch enabled as TouchDevelop lends itself to video instructions more than text based ones even with a lot of pictures. So...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House Task Force on High-Tech Patent Issues: Legislative Priorities and Executive Actions
The White House today released a report on the impact of patent trolls on innovation and announced five executive actions the USPTO and the U.S. Intellectual Property...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Challenge of Teaching Computer Science (in Brazil)
I just got back from a week in Brazil. My Portuguese isn't very good (I need to take a Portuguese word, figure out its Spanish equivalent, and then try to translate...
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On Exiting Unprofitable Businesses
In the HBR: A video. This is fundamental. I would further ask: How can your predict when a business is declining fundamentally? " ... Rita Gunther McGrath...
From Apophenia
Taking a vacation? Take an email sabbatical!
This post was originally written for LinkedIn; see comments there. Have you ever returned from vacation more stressed out than when you left? Is the reason because...
From The Eponymous Pickle