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Eli Lilly using cloud

Here’s a pointer to an article that looks interesting that I found at HPCwire. Eli Lilly’s Dave Powers talks compellingly about how the pharmaceuticals company... John West
From insideHPC | January 15, 2009 at 07:29 PM

From insideHPC

Rackable lays off

Joe Landman alerted us to the weight reduction plan at Rackable following a Q4 sales downturn. From the story at El Reg Going public has not been as much fun for... John West
From insideHPC | January 15, 2009 at 07:22 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Smarter Planet Blog

I just discovered IBM's Building a Smarter Planet Blog: Instrumented, Interconnected, Intelligent. Which was started up last November. Following. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 15, 2009 at 07:15 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Hidden Data

An example of Steganography, which hides data. While encryption " ... obscures the meaning of a message, but it does not conceal the fact that there is a message... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 15, 2009 at 07:04 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Predictive Analytics

I have played in the space of analytic modeling for thirty years. It surprised me about five years ago when I was approached by people saying that they planned... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 15, 2009 at 03:17 PM

From Daniel Lemire's Blog

The Claremont report on database research

Every few years, the database research community prepares reports listing the most promising research directions. The previous one was called the Lowell report,...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog | January 15, 2009 at 03:17 PM

From Putting People First

People-centric sensing in the city of the near future

More on people-centric sensing, this time by LIFT’s Fabien Girardin, and it’s as if he is taking the Nokia paper I just wrote about one step further: “In the past... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 15, 2009 at 12:41 PM

From Putting People First

Sensing the world with mobile devices

The Nokia Research Center published a short paper on participatory mobile sensing that I like very much because of its human-centred approach: By putting mobile... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 15, 2009 at 12:23 PM

From Springenwerk Blog

Barcode Recognition with Google's ZXing on the Mac with TIFF Support

Have you checked out Google's great open source barcode recognition library called ZXing ("zebra crossing")? It's really powerful, free and (halfway) platform independent... Johannes Fahrenkrug
From Springenwerk Blog | January 15, 2009 at 11:37 AM

From Putting People First

Experientia and European research projects

Experientia is currently planning to participate in a number of European research projects, and is looking for partners and interesting collaboration opportunities... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 15, 2009 at 09:57 AM

From Putting People First

Indian usability conference tackled digital divide and user experience design

As part of the World Usability Day 2008, the Department of Information Technology at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (V.I.I.T.), Pune (India) hosted... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 15, 2009 at 09:03 AM

From Putting People First

Interfaces Magazine

Thanks to Vodafone’s Anxo Cereijo-Roibas, I just discovered Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 14, 2009 at 08:33 PM

From insideHPC

NASA awards computational portal

Earlier this week NASA announced it had awarded a John West
From insideHPC | January 14, 2009 at 08:24 PM

From Putting People First

This is iQ

Matthew Neal contacted me today about a design challenge Toyota recently gave to students at the Royal College of Art London to create a household item that represents... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 14, 2009 at 08:09 PM

From Putting People First

Interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo

Peter Merholz, President of Adaptive Path, has published the first part of an interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo.... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 14, 2009 at 08:00 PM

From Putting People First

Seeing other people

Social networking has become an integral part of our lives, but how much say will users have in what they do with social networking and what it looks like? This... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 14, 2009 at 07:54 PM

From Putting People First

IBM research on the use of social software in the workplace

Both Penny Edwards (Headshift) and Bill Ives (Fast Forward) report on recent IBM research on social software in the marketplace: To what extent does your company... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 14, 2009 at 07:43 PM

From Putting People First

Don

I find articles with titles like this difficult to digest. What if you are under 30? And especially if the article is filled with banalities - partly put in the... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 14, 2009 at 07:20 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Lindstrom, Buyology Inc and Brand Image

I attended Martin Lindstrom's talk at Brand Image in Cincinnati today. This was the third time I had been in on Lindstrom presentations. He pointed out that much... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 14, 2009 at 07:20 PM

From Computer Science Teachers Association

The Beauty of Computing is Not in Problem Solving

As part of a recent discussion on the Rebooting Computing listserv Rosemary Michelle Simpson made the following comments in response to a discussion about the discovering...
From Computer Science Teachers Association | January 14, 2009 at 05:02 PM