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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
McDonald's McCafe Underway
A big coffee launch is coming at McDonalds. " ... The master of the McBlitz is about to outdo itself with its long-awaited national campaign for its new coffee....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Analytics for the Enterprise
A good overview of business analytics and optimization for the enterprise by IBM. Helps to understand their definition of this space. Well done.
From Putting People First
As consumers
Over the past few months, frog design’s Robert Fabricant has been “busy riling up the design community with a theory that designers are now in the ‘behavior business’”...
From insideHPC
Q&A with Intel
ZDNet UK has posted a Q&A with James Reinders, Intel’s head of software development products, that asks some interesting questions about Intel’s development tools...
From Putting People First
Crowdsourcing, collaborative innovation and co-creation in the mobile industry
Steve Wolak, is the founder and head of the Betavine, Vodafone
From insideHPC
SC makes top trade show ranking second year in a
A little inside baseball, but you may be interested to know that SC has been listed on the annual ranking of the 200 largest US tradeshows for the second year running...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How peer review is supposed to help you!
Malicious authors know how to get past peer review without effort: Pretend to have run extensive experiments supporting your theories. When the experiments contradict...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google, P&G and New Customers
A Harvard Business conversation starter piece: How P&G and Google approach new customers. Also includes some useful comments on the topic. The obvious is stated...
From Putting People First
Tim Brown on the participation economy
Nokia’s IdeasProject site features a video interview with Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, where he argues that that communications technology is leading us back to the...
From CSDiary
Venkat Guruswami to Join CMU Faculty
I am truly pleased to announce that Venkatesan Guruswami will be joining the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Department, effective July 1, 2009....
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Good are Mashups Anyway?
Interesting piece on the nature of mashups. Oddly I have seen less about the idea of late, but think its a good concept. " ... A new breed of Web-based data integration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Corporate Avatars?
When I first read this piece I was confused. Is a visual representation of a person OK to represent a company? I had read Byron Reeves: Media Equation .... which...
From Putting People First
Living and learning with social media
danah boyd (blog), a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, was one of the...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-02
Open Source at Eclipse: Free To Talk Unrest in the Eclipse community. I wonder if the Board over there will entertain this sort...
From insideHPC
Take the
We've had a couple surveys over the years here at insideHPC -- we've done shirt surveys and asked you what we could change to make things better -- but as we were...
From Putting People First
Putting people first: working together with user-led organisations
This document from the UK Department for Health outlines the benefits that local authorities, and their residents, enjoy when they work with user-led organisations...
From Putting People First
On engineering and design: an open letter
Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton calls for engineers and user-experience designers to learn to appreciate one another: “End-user satisfaction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence in Downturns
CapGemini recording on the value of BI in business downturns. Notable mentions of operational optimization using BI and allied analytical methods. By Stephen...
From The Eponymous Pickle