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On the UX revolution coming up
From Putting People First

On the UX revolution coming up

Two articles in UX Magazine describe upcoming UX revolutions: data and the user interface. The UX of data By Scott Jenson / February 17th 2011 Data storage in the...

Governing Predictive Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Governing Predictive Analytics

In Information Management, a short article, mostly common sense, but a good reminder of how to address an analytical problem. " .... Six Steps to Governing Analytics...

RFID News Update
From The Eponymous Pickle

RFID News Update

The RFID Journal is always a good place to go for the latest news on tagging things.   Check out their useful and detailed news update.

Dole Tests QR Codes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dole Tests QR Codes

Good detailed example of the use of QR codes.  Have mentioned them many times here.  We tested their use in the aisle for locational 'check in': " ... It was a...

USACM Comments on Federal Trade Commission Online Privacy Report
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

USACM Comments on Federal Trade Commission Online Privacy Report

On February 18th, USACM submitted comments in response to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) preliminary staff report concerning online privacy. Titled ?Protecting...

? OBR Progress Report
From Wild WebMink

? OBR Progress Report

The Open-By-Rule Benchmark I talked about recently has now had several workouts, and there are a number more under review ready for future posting. So far, it seems...

Towards Collaborative Business Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards Collaborative Business Intelligence

A general overview of architecture for BI: " ... In today

Email Overload is Intractable
From The Eponymous Pickle

Email Overload is Intractable

In the HBR Blog.  I agree.  Even with filtering and careful examination, too much of it can slip through or simply gum up the works.  So what can be done?

From Computational Complexity

What I Tweeted

Various thoughts not restricted to 140 characters. Congrats to Mihalis Yannakakis for his election into the National Academy of Engineering as well as new Sloan...

Experientia at Ecobuild 2011 in London
From Putting People First

Experientia at Ecobuild 2011 in London

Experientia will be taking part at Ecobuild 2011, March 1-3, in London, UK. Ecobuild is the world

Letting Your People Speak and Celebrate
From The Eponymous Pickle

Letting Your People Speak and Celebrate

Paul Gillin has an excellent piece in his blog where he uses the Watson-Jeopardy example at IBM to show how a company can celebrate an accomplishement publicly. ...

Good Article About the Terrorist Non-Threat
From Schneier on Security

Good Article About the Terrorist Non-Threat

From Reason: Know thy enemy is an ancient principle of warfare. And if America had heeded it, it might have refrained from a full-scale "war" on terrorism whose...

FizzBuzz
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

FizzBuzz

Projects or exercises that lend themselves to many different “correct” solutions are just about the best sorts of learning experiences I can imagine. They really...

Using Plug-and-Play Macroscopes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Plug-and-Play Macroscopes

From the ACM:  Looking at complex data with visualization tools: " ... Decision making in science, industry, and politics, as well as in daily life, requires that...

Open Education
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Education

Readwriteweb looks at the future of Open Education, and the tenth anniversary of the concept at MIT. " ... Over the past decade, MIT has shared its course materials...

Numbers Rule Your World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Numbers Rule Your World

Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung In the midst of reading this book which I have...

Bad Decisions About CS Education in Ohio
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Bad Decisions About CS Education in Ohio

About a week ago the University of Cincinnati in Ohio announced it was no longer going to offer Computer Science as a Major. Dean Carlo Montemagno said it was a...

Social Media is subversive, but maybe not how you think
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Social Media is subversive, but maybe not how you think

Back in 2005, Shirky argued that the Social Web offered an alternative to organizations. Working collaboratively has never been easier. And the innovation is ongoing...

Does Your Company Know What it Knows?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Does Your Company Know What it Knows?

Short outline piece in the HBR on this perennially important issue.  We worked on it since at least the 70s.  Surprise it is still important, and largely unaddressed...

Making Decisions Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Decisions Work

A good results brief from Bain & Company on making decisions work.   Even if you have the right decision in hand, it also has to be operationally well implemented...
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