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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multitasking a Myth?
A NYT piece on the science of concentration says that concentration, once broken, can take twenty minutes to re-establish. Overviews some of the findings in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exxon Station Locator
It has been reported that ExxonMobil has released a new station locator using the Google API. It has also been pointed out that the service does not have a form...
From Springenwerk Blog
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Common issues when overloading code from plugins
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza and Pi Solutions
Certainly an interesting objective here: "... Pi Solutions and Netezza jointly sponsored a free web seminar focused on how true item-level profitability analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza and Green Business Intelligence
Piece from Insurance Networking News, includes 8 tips to green your business intelligence strategy ... a mention of Netezza, BI appliance innovator: " ... the BI...
From Putting People First
Inspiring articles by Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo! Research
If you like the writings by the highly original Elizabeth Churchill, a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research in charge of the Internet Experiences Group...
From insideHPC
Wolfram previews a kind of computational
c|net has an article on Wolfram Research’s new product, Wolfram Alpha, being launched later this month Wolfram Alpha is like a cross between a research library,...
From insideHPC
Rackable announces Q1, posts
Rackable, er Sgrackable, Racka-GI, the company that just bought SGI, announced its first quarter results yesterday. The company lost $.46 per share, GAAP net loss...
From insideHPC
IBM partners in fight against
Yesterday IBM and the U of Texas announced that they were working together to use the World Community Grid in the fight against
From insideHPC
SC09 podcast with Cherri Pancake, getting the most out of
SC is a huge conference, and gets bigger every year. But the conference has kept up, listening to attendee feedback and introducing new tools, features, and support...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-06
How David Beats Goliath Great (if rather long) article from Gladwell reminding us that David beat Goliath by playing as David. ...
From Putting People First
Most Interaction09 conference videos now online
Most of the videos of the Interaction09 conference, that took place this February in Vancouver, Canada, are now available online (see also here). Here is a personal...
From Putting People First
The poverty of user-centered design
Andrew Dillon, dean of the School of Information (”iSchool”) at the University of Texas, writes on his blog InfoMatters that he finds “the term
From Putting People First
User-centred approach drives the design of Intel
In December last year, Intel design researcher Daria Loi made a very strong presentation at the UPA Europe conference showing how people in different cultures “keep...
From Putting People First
Cisco CTO: The future of collaboration will be all about user experience
In a series of predictions on the future of collaboration, Padmasree Warrior, the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, points out that it’s the user experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Communications Forum Presentations
A link to presentations from the New Communications Forum meetings. About social media and their implications.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clear Thinking With Digital Data
Jonathan Salem Baskin writes about digital data and having a clear vision about how the data is ultimately used. It is about the data, but it is also about the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Advantage
An article just pointed out to me from Consumer Goods Digital: The Digital Advantage. Good overview piece on using data for category management. Specifically a...
From The Noisy Channel
Got Hate Tweets?
I had the novel experience today of discovering that someone set up a Twitter account for the sole purpose of harassing me personally. I’m not sure what exactly...
From The Noisy Channel