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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 11
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 11

October 12 Hearing The Research and Science Education Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on education approaches...

NSF/CISE Holds Webinar on Sustainability RFPs
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF/CISE Holds Webinar on Sustainability RFPs

Earlier this afternoon, the

Sleep App
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sleep App

Skeptical of its value, but will mention to a sleep disorder doctor.  Another example of sensor driven Apps, An App to Help You Sleep Better: By measuring your...

Navy Chooses InferX
From The Eponymous Pickle

Navy Chooses InferX

A short time ago I started to look at InferX, a company that implements data mining and alerting techniques.  A topic we explored extensively in the enterprise....

This Blog Promotes Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

This Blog Promotes Analytics

One of the purposes of this blog is to promote the use of analytical methods in retail, manufacturing, research, marketing and beyond.  Want to use my over thirty...

Embodied interactions: in touch with the digital
From Putting People First

Embodied interactions: in touch with the digital

Fabian Hemmert will be one of the keynote speakers at Interaction 12. In this article on Johnny Holland, he reflects on “recent developments in the research field...

Flow in design
From Putting People First

Flow in design

Dana Chisnell reports on the importance of flow in UX design. Flow comes from focused attention, deep engagement, a feeling of mastering a challenge. The outside...

The existential challenges of human-robot interaction
From Putting People First

The existential challenges of human-robot interaction

How will we react when a loyal humanoid robot that has served us for years suddenly fails? Will we genuinely grieve for no-longer working bots that have accompanied...

On Procrastination
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Procrastination

In the HBR Blog:  What it is and how to stop it.  My experience is that everyone has it and is always looking for ways to do more of it.  Today with devices aplenty...

Wal-Mart Uses Local Messaging
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Uses Local Messaging

In ADAge:    An interesting and potentially historical shift: " ... Walmart is launching a Facebook app that customizes marketing for each of its nearly 3,600 U...

Five Healthcare Robotics Ideas to Appear in First RoboBowl
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Five Healthcare Robotics Ideas to Appear in First RoboBowl

Later this week,

Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo 2011

 Last week I attended part of SIEGE 2011 (Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo) in Atlanta Georgia. Before the main part of the conference started the...

Package Scanning by Pepsi
From The Eponymous Pickle

Package Scanning by Pepsi

Another good example of the use of QR codes on packaging:" ... New Pepsi cans and bottles for The X Factor campaign are now appearing in stores. Three-hundred million...

Why aren
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Why aren

Bankers will tell you that to get rich, you should rely on compound interests. Save up a little bit of everything you earn, and you will soon be wealthy. What they...

Post Work World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Post Work World

Are we heading for a post-work world?  Are the robots or their kin taking over? Asks the Transparency Revolution.  " ... Specifically, what if post-industrial society...

Innovation as a Day Job
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation as a Day Job

A good post in Innovation Excellence by Jeffrey Phillips.  I used to have innovation as my day job.  It was expected as a means to support the work in the innovation...

From Computational Complexity

More than East and West

The Obama Campaign is creating a Campaign Analytics Team. Love Data, Predictive Analytics, Social Media and Politics? The Analytics team for the Obama Campaign...

Reading Confidence Men
From My Biased Coin

Reading Confidence Men

My current spare time reading* is Confidence Men, Ron Suskind's book on Wall Street and the Presidency.  Without "taking sides" with regard to Larry Summers, IMockingjay...

U.S. Drones Have a Computer Virus
From Schneier on Security

U.S. Drones Have a Computer Virus

You'd think we would be more careful than this: A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America

Training Bacteria to Grow Consumer Goods
From The Eponymous Pickle

Training Bacteria to Grow Consumer Goods

An approach I had not heard of before. This looks to be still in the very early stages of usefulness.  The use of the term 'provocation' here as opposed to theIDEO...
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