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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
Retailers Take to Shopper Marketing
In Supermarket News. The retailer continues to take a stronger handle to the integration of shopper behavior and purchase. The data and the analytics continue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Languages of Innovation
Thoughts on a language of innovation. All innovation exists in a context. In our innovation centers we started to seek a means to simulate innovation in both...
From My Biased Coin
Student Bragging....
Always worth bragging about my students...Justin Thaler's paper "Cache-Oblivious Dictionaries and Multimaps with Negligible Failure Probability" (with me, Michael...
From The Noisy Channel
LinkedIn Presentations at RecSys 2012
LinkedIn showed up in force at the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012)! Here are the slides from all of our presentations. Daniel...
From Putting People First
Book: Economy of Experiences
Today Albert Boswijk, founder and CEO of the European Centre for the Experience Economy, contacted us about his new book “Economy of Experiences”. Boswijk co-founded...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers Don't Recognize the Solution
As early as 2000 we actively researched the ability of RFID technologies to solve key retail cost and operational issues. We expected the solutions to be in place...
From Putting People First
UX Curve: A method for evaluating long-term user experience
UX Curve: A method for evaluating long-term user experience Sari Kujala (a), Virpi Roto (b), Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila (a), Evangelos Karapanos (c), Arto Sinnel...
From Putting People First
Luxury brands need luxury retail experiences, even in the online space
Jonathan Ross, business development director at FACT-Finder, discusses the steps luxury brands can take to ensure a more rewarding online retail experience for...
From Putting People First
PARC ethnographer on the power of observation
In an article for GigaOM, Ellen Isaacs (personal site), a user experience designer and ethnographer for PARC, explains the benefits of using ethnography to develop...
From Putting People First
Should we focus on user experience?
This article by my compatriot Koen AT Claes claims that our current notion of UX design mistakenly focuses on experience, and that we should go one step further...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum Repetition
Aram Harrow and Gil Kalai debate “Conjecture 1″ William Wootters and Wojciech Zurek were office-mates in 1979 as graduate students at U.T. Austin in John Wheeler’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Observation
Ethnographer at PARC speaks: " ... I spend a lot of time observing ordinary people going about their business — in hospitals, shopping malls, living rooms, even...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Senior Care Robotics
Eldercare robotics. A direction pioneered in Japan that that we saw demonstrated at a major manufacturer. This approach designed for seniors with cognitive impairment...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Big Data’s Management Revolution”
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of MIT have posted an interesting entry to the Harvard Business Review Blog about big data and corporate management: Big data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Little Decisions from Big Data
An overview of predictive analytics in Information Management. Reasonably good overview of analytics today. It is all about utilizing data we are gathering today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kalido and Teradata
Brought to my attention regarding agile data consolidation, late but worth noting:" ... Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading analytic data solutions company, and Kalido...
From Wild WebMink
Apple and Connector Standards
It seems Apple wasn’t serious when it promised the European commission it would use micro-USB. Read more about it in my article in ComputerWorldUK this week.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Museum
In Valdés, Spain. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Analytics with Voziq
Correspondent Chris Herbert sends along a link to Voziq. ... Monitor the social web for mentions of your brand, competitors and industry- Benchmark how you compare...
From Schneier on Security