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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
Text Analytics and the Value of the Unstructured
In Information Management: Bottom line is that unstructured data is important. Unstructured is also more than just text, images and video are becoming increasingly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Charts Tell a Story
In Flowingdata.. An illustration of my favorite precept, that simple is better. It is true that visualizaton can make very complex things appear simpler. But...
From Putting People First
The Smartphone Psychology Manifesto
In Perspectives on Psychological Science (May 2012 vol. 7), Geoffrey Miller publishes a “Smartphone Psychology Manifesto” with methodological suggestions for the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Health Care
An interesting example using the case of sleep apnea contributing to car accidents.
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Wins Effie
P&G tops the list of the ten most effective advertisers. " ... IBM and Microsoft, tied with EA, come in at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intuit Using Big Data to Delight You
In GigaOM: Some months back I gave a talk at Intuit on the leveraging of data resources. This is not an outcome of that, but an intriguing direction that they...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink from the Jurassic
Seems that squid ink hasn't changed much in 160 million years. From this, researchers argue that the security mechanism of spraying ink into the water and escaping...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target Connects to ShopKick
In an interesting development Target has connected to the ShopKick rewards program. I spent some time looking at ShopKick and was impressed by the approach. ...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Data, Computing at Center of Presidential Advisors
Data and computing were front and center at
From Geeking with Greg
The game Stick Portal
I want to share more of the ideas I've been exploring. First, let me start with this, an early version of a game I'm calling Stick Portal. Click on the imageCoffescript...
From Putting People First
For productivity apps, PCs still rule (for now)
Gartner research suggests that there is an inverse correlation between portable devices and PC usage, reports the Financial Times. “Is the PC era really over? The...
From Putting People First
Interview with and lecture by Daniel Kahnemann
Debunking the Myth of Intuition Can doctors and investment advisers be trusted? And do we live more for experiences or memories? In a SPIEGEL interview, Nobel Prize...
From Putting People First
Be Everyday
On Be Everyday, the site of a Brussels-based project, you can follow the stories of inspiring people that live in European cities and who have found their own creative...
From Putting People First
Mobile: A Serious Contender to the Desktop Computer
With the introduction of mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and various other smart phones and tablets, the demand for websites to be
From Putting People First
Obama White House unveils plan to bring US Federal Government into the mobile age
The White House has unveiled plans to bring US governance into the mobile-centric twenty-first century. Dubbed the
From Putting People First
Journal of Business Anthropology
The Journal of Business Anthropology is an Open Access journal which publishes the results of anthropological and related research in business organizations and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Turning the Body Into a Wireless Controller
New Scientist
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Dynamics of Customer Loyalty
Good piece on the topic. Gaming principles applied to customer acquisition using virality and examples in a number of current systems. Good to answer client questions...
From Schneier on Security