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Eliminating the Checkout Line
From The Eponymous Pickle

Eliminating the Checkout Line

Not really a self-checkout.  And not an item-tagged RFID enabled checkout, which we also tested.  But here something completely different. A checkout  based onDescribed...

XKCD Today
From Schneier on Security

XKCD Today

It's a good one. Be sure to read the hover-over text.

Retaining Retired Expertise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retaining Retired Expertise

As we continue to move through the Baby Boomer bubble, companies understand that they are losing key expertise.  I looked at this problem for the enterprise,  seeking...

Coke Freeestyle Launches
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coke Freeestyle Launches

The Coke Freestyle machine is coming to Firehouse Subs.  An advance in vending.   The link includes a location map.There are several of these in our area and will...

Heathcare Analytics and Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Heathcare Analytics and Intelligence

Healthcare is probably one of the best areas of opportunity to apply these technologies.  it is also one of the most complex, requiring the involvement of manyIBM...

Productivity via the Interface
From The Eponymous Pickle

Productivity via the Interface

Microsoft presents some views of new interface concepts.  Concepts only at this time, but some impressive examples.  Towards more productivity.

Keys to Biomedical Innovation:
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Keys to Biomedical Innovation:

Earlier this month at an event in Washington, DC, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, Ph.D.,

Book: Putting people back at the heart of cities
From Putting People First

Book: Putting people back at the heart of cities

The Lure of the City: From Slums to Suburbs [Paperback] Edited by Austin Williams and Alastair Donald Pluto Press, September 2011 224 pages Review by Spiked: A...

Why Microsoft
From Putting People First

Why Microsoft

A viral clip produced by Microsoft is–like almost every video on this subject–amazingly polished. It’s also inane and completely lifeless, says FastCo Design. “Futuristic...

BlackBerry Future Visions
From Putting People First

BlackBerry Future Visions

Research in Motion seems to have commissioned a pair of videos envisioning portable technology in the not-so-distant future, writes PocketNow: specifically, they...

Design and the social sector: an annotated bibliography
From Putting People First

Design and the social sector: an annotated bibliography

This bibliography – now published on Change Observer – was initiatied in early 2011 as an independent study project by Courtney Drake, a graudate student at the...

Smartphones Find Niche in Human Behaviour Tests
From Putting People First

Smartphones Find Niche in Human Behaviour Tests

Researchers are using innovative tools to perform psychological experiments a lot faster than they used to. Experts believe the number of smartphone users worldwide...

Improving Engagement in Saas Applications
From The Eponymous Pickle

Improving Engagement in Saas Applications

Fairly obvious, but useful reminder of the basics in engagements of any kind. 

Is the Moore Party Over?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Is the Moore Party Over?

A short post in CACM on the slowdown of computing.  Or can we await quantum computing to save the day.   There are still good problems out there to address with...

Computing Researchers Weigh in on Changes to Human Subjects Research Regulations
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Computing Researchers Weigh in on Changes to Human Subjects Research Regulations

The Department of Heath and Human Services is planning to revise what it calls the Common Rule – the regulations overseeing federally funded research involving...

Technology is Too Distracting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Technology is Too Distracting

More on the distracting aspects of technology, and yes technology can be very distracting.  For we that tend to diverge in attention that can be satisfying.  But...

New Frameworks for Optimization
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Frameworks for Optimization

I was recently reminded of Charlotte Software Systems, which is in part comprised of parts of several companies I had worked with in the past. They had all been...

Help Wanted: Examples of Nonlinear Stories and Less Successful AR Projects
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Help Wanted: Examples of Nonlinear Stories and Less Successful AR Projects

I'm working on two projects where I need to come up with as long a list of examples as I can.  I've got some in mind, but what better way to make sure I don't miss...

Secret Codes in Bacteria
From Schneier on Security

Secret Codes in Bacteria

Neat: Researchers have invented a new form of secret messaging using bacteria that make glowing proteins only under certain conditions. In addition to being useful...

A New Analogy
From Computer Science Teachers Association

A New Analogy

Last month I was able to attend a regional conference conducted by the National Girls Collaborative Project. The keynote speaker was Dr. Chris Sahley from Purdue...
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