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Data mines and ideas of time
From Putting People First

Data mines and ideas of time

The boys at design consultancy BERG are prolific this week: Toiling in the data-mines: what data exploration feels like by Tom Armitage “There are several aspects...

Squeezing Knowledge from a Pixel
From The Eponymous Pickle

Squeezing Knowledge from a Pixel

Alex Williams of RedWriteWeb talks to IBM about ' ... developing analytics platforms to help companies better understand how multiple pieces of information fit....

Human-Computer Interaction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Human-Computer Interaction

A good overview of the recent Human-Computer Information Retrieval HCIR workshop this past week. This is such an important topics and it is good to see increasing...

The Underlying Foundation of Professional Development
From Computer Science Teachers Association

The Underlying Foundation of Professional Development

If I were to ask the question: "What should be the underlying foundation of every professional development opportunity?" many of you would immediately have an answer...

Add this to Your RSS Feed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Add this to Your RSS Feed

If you like what you read here take the time to add this blog to your RSS feed. Don't use RSS? Its a great way to make your Web reading more efficient. More about...

Len Kleinrock and the Internet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Len Kleinrock and the Internet

Len Kleinrock on the 40th annoversary of the Internet in IEEE Computer: A Revolution Forty Years in the Making. -

links for 2009-10-26
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-10-26

Weak Points of Sun Deal Come Out in Europe I do hope the folks filing narrowly-focussed letters at the EU are paying attentionSun...

Flare Data Visualization for the Web
From The Eponymous Pickle

Flare Data Visualization for the Web

Of interest, the Flare library, from the UC Berkeley Visualization Lab. Contains a number of visualization capabilities, an example is the Job Voyager, demonstration...

HCIR 2009: Human-Human Interaction
From The Noisy Channel

HCIR 2009: Human-Human Interaction

On Friday, I had the privilege of seeing just how much the annual Workshop on Human-Computer Information Retrieval has grown up since I conceived it in the summer...

CIA Invests in Social-Network Datamining
From Schneier on Security

CIA Invests in Social-Network Datamining

From Wired: In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes...

From Computational Complexity

FOCS Day 1

Michele and Michael continue their guest posts from Atlanta.The first day of FOCS is officially over. 8 sessions, 26 talks and 270 proceedings pages have already...

Google Experimenting With Social Search
From The Noisy Channel

Google Experimenting With Social Search

Google may be an also-ran in the social networking market with its Brazil-centric Orkut service, but that hasn’t stopped the search giant from adding social features...

Stop your search engines
From Putting People First

Stop your search engines

Peggy Orenstein forced herself offline, and reflects in the New York Times Magazine whether this is the path to true knowledge: “Not long ago, I started an experiment...

Memory and forgetting in the digital age
From Putting People First

Memory and forgetting in the digital age

Yadin Dudai writes in the New Scientist on two books on memory and forgetting in the digital age — Total Recall: How the e-memory revolution will change everything...

Neuroscience and Workplace Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuroscience and Workplace Systems

An interesting example of what goes on in workplace contexts and how people interact with artificial systems like computers and avatars. What would this imply...

Unilever Consumer Contact Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever Consumer Contact Center

In Consumergoods Magazine: ' Unilever Unveils Online Self-Service Platform Unilever goes live with the Astute Solutions' RealDialog Self-Service solution on its...

From Computational Complexity

FOCS Day 0

Alas, I'm not in Atlanta but in New York City for another meeting. Something different this time--FOCS through the eyes of two Northwestern students, Michele Budinich and...

Marketing Neuromarketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marketing Neuromarketing

Influencing the Decisionmaker with Neuromarketing. Short PR piece from Zenzi.

The Way Nature Designs, Or Doesn't
From Return 42;

The Way Nature Designs, Or Doesn't

Often, I do not feel like agreeing with Linus Torvalds. This is not because he is not right, but because of the very opinionated, sometimes even stubborn way he...

Perception in the Brain's Clock
From The Eponymous Pickle

Perception in the Brain's Clock

Fascinating piece in New Scientist about how the brain's clock changes our perception and view of reality. Mentioned is the classic 'wagon wheel illusion', ' .....
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