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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
Product Portfolio Management at Hallmark
From CGT: A simple example of portfolio management strategies." ... There are many reasons why your company can't afford to miss product launch windows. So, how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Public vs Private Clouds
In GigaOm: A good comparison between the choice of Public vs Private Cloud in corporate IT. Which companies should use which? " ... Cloud computing is supposed...
From Putting People First
John Payne on his Occupy Wall Street ethnography
A few weeks ago, Tricia Wang asked John Payne, a principal of Moment, to write a guest post on Ethnography Matters about his ethnographic field work on Occupy Wall...
From Putting People First
Perception Strategy: The Emotional Side of User Experience
The way we interact and respond to information depends on many things: our goals about what we want to do with that information, the nature of the information,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoo Analytics
A local zoo and spin off consultancy makes a point of the value of business intelligence applications. First I had heard of this specifically addressed in an article...
From Wild WebMink
London Thrill Ride
Seems the fairground is now a London fixture. Walking back across Waterloo Bridge at the end of our last holiday break of the summer, we saw that the London Eye...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Social Analytics : Kenexa
This is quite a buy. We took a look at IBM's offerings in social technology nearly a decade ago. Their early efforts included intelligent directories that could...
From My Biased Coin
Honor Codes?
A further interesting question that has come out of the as-of-yet alleged cheating scandal at Harvard is whether Harvard should have an honor code. The question...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: "The Seasick Squid"
A fable. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
High School Trig Is Powerful
Trying to cheat a decision problem Leopold Kronecker proved many great theorems, including one on Diophantine Approximation theory. This is the theory of how closely...
From My Biased Coin
Max Flows in O(nm) Time by Orlin
Just saw Suresh point to this talk (and paper) about a new result for max flows in O(nm) time by James Orlin. I'm listening to the talk he has on line this afternoon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design vs Functionality
An interesting view. With the obvious example of smartphones converging on a rectangular design. " ... In a pre-iPhone age, mobile phones came in all shapes...
From Schneier on Security
Conversation about Liars and Outliers on The WELL
I'm on The WELL right now -- for the next week or so -- discussing my new book with anyone who wants to participate. I'm also at Dragon*Con this weekend in Atlanta...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart uses Semantic Search
It is likely we will continue to see more efforts like this in retail, the claim for immediate improvement is particularly interesting: " ... Walmart like many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Packaging Through Collaboration
In Innovation Excellence: General Mills example of using open innovation by working closely with suppliers, increasingly common in industry today.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Tech Jobs Are All Across America”
The Bay Area Council Economic Institute (BACEI) is out with a new report that integrates data from multiple sources, including the biennial Bureau of Labor Statistics...
From Wild WebMink
App.Net Ignores Software Freedom
Plenty of “open”, “ad-free” and even “free” is mentioned in various places, of course. But I took a good look at App.Net and found the concepts of software freedom...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Controversies For Fun and Discussion
I love a good discussion. Pros and cons and honest and hopefully friendly discussion of issue with different opinions make for good learning experiences. One of...
From Putting People First
The new multi-screen world: understanding cross-platform consumer behavior
Google published yesterday a research report on how consumers use different devices together and navigating the new multi-screen world. They set out to learn not...
From Putting People First