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Fundamentals of Information Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fundamentals of Information Management

Thoughtful piece, a great place to start thinking about why you should manage information at all:The Path to Information Management NirvanaSimilar to Maslow

Peer Index Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Peer Index Marketing

In GigaOM.  "Marketers have long believed that some customers have a disproportionate influence on others when it comes to purchase decisions, and they have tried...

Optimizing Airport Security
From Schneier on Security

Optimizing Airport Security

New research: Adrian J. Lee and Sheldon H. Jacobson (2011), "The Impact of Aviation Checkpoint Queues on Optimizing Security Screening Effectiveness," Reliability...

What Did You Do This Summer?
From Computer Science Teachers Association

What Did You Do This Summer?

Well, it's back to school time and most of us have done some professional development over the summer to rejuvenate and enhance what we are doing in the classroom...

Science is self-regulatory
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science is self-regulatory

Many systems are self-regulatory. For example, in a few market, prices will fluctuate until everyone gets a fair price. But free markets are a mathematical abstraction...

From Computational Complexity

Knowing some History is a good thing- Why?

(FOCS registration is open: here. Note that there are tutorials on Sat Oct 22 and the conference talks are Sun Oct 23-Tues Oct 25.) (Guest post by By Jeffery...

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 6
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 6

Congress has returned from its August recess. The Fiscal Year 2012 budget should be high on the agenda, as that year starts October 1. September 7 Hearing The Senate...

Where Are All the Terrorists?
From Schneier on Security

Where Are All the Terrorists?

From Foreign Policy: "Why Is It So Hard to Find a Suicide Bomber These Days?" And from Stratfor: "Why al Qaeda is Unlikely to Execute Another 9/11." Me from May...

Very Tiny GPS Receivers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Very Tiny GPS Receivers

An intriguing short post on how location tracking devices based on GPS are getting very small.   Another example of the flexibility of small sensors.  Medical and...

Rise of Electronic Medicine
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rise of Electronic Medicine

The rise of electronic medicine.   Medicine today is a sea of paper and fax machines, privacy barriers, and unconnected data. The public is ready for a better system...

Techniques for Telling Nonlinear Stories
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Techniques for Telling Nonlinear Stories

At the beginning of October, I'll be participating in a digital narrative workshop for the GRAND NCE called 'Experiencing Stories with/in Digital Games.' The following...

links for 2011-09-05
From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-09-05

Don

Interesting Links September 6 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links September 6 2011

Labor Day in the US means a three-day weekend and I took advantage of it. That is why this post is a day late. Hope it didn’t ruin anyone’s day. I’d like to make...

Packaging that Glows
From The Eponymous Pickle

Packaging that Glows

For a potential project I re-examined packaging work that we had looked at for shelf improving engagement.  The use of electroluminescence. See a set of DuPont. ...

Eyeborg
From The Eponymous Pickle

Eyeborg

Document to eye, a documentary video.   The future of an eye prosthetic?

Package Goods Volume  Decreases
From The Eponymous Pickle

Package Goods Volume Decreases

In AdAge: Price hikes and decreasing volume. Further opening the door to more private label offerings.

Speeding up Material Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Speeding up Material Design

We spent considerable time and effort in doing packaging and product design via computer.  How do you understand how a package effects all parts of the supplyIn...

links for 2011-09-04
From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-09-04

Board Elections: Nominations Open – The Document Foundation Mailing List Archives Nominations are now open for The Document Foundation board of directors. Anyone...

Braun Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Braun Design

I got to visit the Braun company a few times after they were acquired indirectly by our enterprise and observe one of their design competitions.  Now here ten principles...

Kroger and the Advantage Checkout
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger and the Advantage Checkout

Tom Demeropolis Checks out the Advantage Tunnel Checkout system at Kroger.   Also here is a video of the Fujitsu  / Kroger Advantage system in action.   Moretechnical...
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