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Business Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Analytics

New book by a long time colleague:  Business Analytics: Methods Models and Decisions.  by James R EvansThis book provides readers with the fundamental conceptsOn...

A U.S.-Israel Collaboration in Computer Science
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

A U.S.-Israel Collaboration in Computer Science

The National Science Foundation (NSF), together with the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), today announced the U.S.-Israel Collaboration...

Academic Dishonesty Cases
From My Biased Coin

Academic Dishonesty Cases

I have a bunch of half-written blog posts, none of which I have felt pressed to finish, so the blog has languished over the summer.  But then, something has come...

Membership Benefits
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Membership Benefits

CSTA has recently produced a brand –new Members Benefit brochure. If you have not received a copy, you can access it by clicking on the Membership Information1)...

Measuring Supply Chain Performance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measuring Supply Chain Performance

A very good piece on the topic.  Deals with the strategic, operational and especially financial aspects of the problem.  If we can't measure we can hardly improve...

BOI Solutions:  Groundbreaking Business Intelligence Delivery
From The Eponymous Pickle

BOI Solutions: Groundbreaking Business Intelligence Delivery

Newly brought to by attention again.  The excellent and unique work done by BOI Systems." ... Procter & Gamble’s groundbreaking Business Sphere environments enable...

Panos Ipeirotis talking at LinkedIn about Crowdsourcing!
From The Noisy Channel

Panos Ipeirotis talking at LinkedIn about Crowdsourcing!

Sharing knowledge is part of our core culture at LinkedIn, whether it’s through hackdays or contributions to open-source projects. We actively participate in academic...

Bit by Bit: A Young Woman's Guide to Entering and Succeeding in High Tech Careers
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Bit by Bit: A Young Woman's Guide to Entering and Succeeding in High Tech Careers

A new book all about high tech careers for women has finally found its way onto Amazon! I was interviewed for this book (Bit by Bit: A Young Woman's Guide to Entering...

The Psychological Effects of Terrorism
From Schneier on Security

The Psychological Effects of Terrorism

Shelly C. McArdle, Heather Rosoff, Richard S. John (2012), "The Dynamics of Evolving Beliefs, Concerns Emotions, and Behavioral Avoidance Following 9/11: A Longitudinal...

Why Stores Stock Items that Don't Sell
From The Eponymous Pickle

Why Stores Stock Items that Don't Sell

Correspondent Byron Sharp sends along this informative link:If you have ever wondered why stores are willing to stock many items that barely sell....Professor Byron...

Ask Fewer Questions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ask Fewer Questions

Michael Schrage talks about a fundamental  tool of our industry:  Asking questions.  Sometimes its verbal, sometimes via an email or a store survey. It happens...

From Computational Complexity

The Net or the Jet

I spent the first half of my life in the jet age but not in the Internet age. I could fly anywhere in the world but the fastest way to get a research paper to another...

Promoting Technology-Mediated Social Participation with a Summer Social Webshop
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Promoting Technology-Mediated Social Participation with a Summer Social Webshop

The following is a special contribution to this blog by Jenny Korn, a Ph.D. student in communications at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Korn was one of the...

Cloud Fundamentals Video Series
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Cloud Fundamentals Video Series

The Trustworthy Computing group has been recording a series on Cloud computing fundamentals. The series (some 25 videos) wraps up this week with a series finale...

Choosing Social Network Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Choosing Social Network Models

From Wharton:  An extensive piece on the topic.  " ... Recent downturns in the stock price of several social media companies -- several of which debuted to much...

NSF Issues New Solicitation for Sustainability (SEES) Fellows
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Issues New Solicitation for Sustainability (SEES) Fellows

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a solicitation for its Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) Fellows program, paving the...

Connect and Development Opportunities: Unstructured Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Connect and Development Opportunities: Unstructured Data

I just received a list of needs from P&G's Connect and Development outreach via P&G's alumni network that may be of interest to this group.  The all have elements...

Tiny Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tiny Machines

Via the Foresight Institute Richard Feynman's seminal 1959  talk on nanotechnology: Tiny Machines. And also a talk: There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom.  Foresight Institute is...

Network Wide Inventory Reduction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Network Wide Inventory Reduction

As part of my continued look at supply chain technologies and measures I found this excellent article:  Supply Chain News:  How Do Companies Perceive Opportunities...

Big Data Meets Cloud
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Meets Cloud

Forbes article on how big data meets the Cloud.    A good piece by Forrester on the use of many resources, internal and external to drive business intelligence....
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