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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 Putting People First
She’s not talking about it, but Siri is plotting world domination
Apple has a vision of a future in which the disembodied voice of Siri is your constant companion. It goes something like this: You arrive home at the end of a long...
From Putting People First
The next wave in branding: merging experiences across markets
It’s time to start thinking strategically about designing user experiences for interconnected ecosystems like health care, argues frog’s Fabio Sergio. “Within [massive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Expands Smartphone Checkout
It is reported that Wal-Mart will expand its test of using smartphones for in-aisle checkout. The system they are using is Scan & Go, delivered as an App for popular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Keep vs Evernote
A comparison of newly available of Google Keep, and well known note taking system Evernote. Have used Evernote for years. In recent weeks I have been helping a...
From Schneier on Security
FBI Secretly Spying on Cloud Computer Users
Both Google and recently ruled National Security Letters unconstitutional. Not that this changes anything yet.
From My Biased Coin
Harvard in the NCAA Tournament
Thank goodness it's Harvard's vacation week.Otherwise, the rioting would have been unbearable.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovative Supply Chain Solutions
In SCDigest: An exploration of the 'pain to gain ration', of various supply chain innovations. Well done. I did such an analysis a few years ago. I love the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Natural Gas and Commercial Trucking
An area I investigated several years ago. MJ Perry examines. While natural gas is now considerably cheaper and more energy efficient than gasoline today, commercial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Newsletter
Always good Analytics Newsletter. Latest issue. Lots of directly useful topics. Tied directly to the modern issues of data, decisions and results. Subscribe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving Big Data Problems with Visualization
A SAS paper, which requires some registration. I believe you should always build a sandbox for relevant visualization when doing analytics on a data set. Let...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act this Congress?
During last Wednesday’s hearing on “Investigating and Prosecuting 21st Century Cyber Threats,” the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security...
From Putting People First
Sustainable living and behavioural change
A Unilever sponsored sustainability supplement to The Guardian contains a short articles by Dan Lockton that is worth exploring. Design for sustainability: making...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Rooms
Your company needs a decision room. To help create change and foster innovation. Click on the labels below to see some of Procter & Gamble's work in this area...
From Schneier on Security
Text Message Retention Policies
The FBI wants cell phone carriers to store SMS messages for a long time, enabling them to conduct surveillance backwards in time. Nothing new there -- data retention...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Supply Chain Risks
And the dangers of an opaque supply chain. And how this increases in a complicated world. And how this relates to the recent horsemeat scandal. " ... Two...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen Tracking
In Adage: How Nielsen tracks almost everything, with some mini case studies of how it works. Instructive.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Story Graph Example Inspired by The Paper Bag Princess
Without giving too much away, I wanted to share an early example of the types of story graphs I'm working on for my thesis. This was my first example, and it's...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Launches Search Committee for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Division Director
The following was submitted by Farnam Jahanian, NSF Assistant Director for CISE. Dear Colleagues, The National Science Foundation CISE Directorate is pleased to...
From Computational Complexity
The Slot Machine Theory of Paper Submissions
Why do scientists publish so much? There is the whole "publish or perish" thing but that doesn't explain the large increase in quantity of publications. With a...
From The Eponymous Pickle