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IKEA/Economist Group (EIU) study focuses on the new ‘American Dream’ today
From Putting People First

IKEA/Economist Group (EIU) study focuses on the new ‘American Dream’ today

Press release – September 21, 2016 Discovering the New American Dream, an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report sponsored by IKEA US shows that the AmericanIKEA...

The Surface Dial and the Physical/Digital Divide in Interactions
From XRDS

The Surface Dial and the Physical/Digital Divide in Interactions

Microsoft announced their new Surface Studio this week. It acts as an all-in-one computer, but with a modular screen that can be re-positioned to act as a drawing...

Using Scrum in your research
From XRDS

Using Scrum in your research

Agile methods on software development are very popular. The root of these methods must be sought in the on the Agile Manifesto that says: Individuals and interactions...

Dropbox Selective Sync Bug, or How It Took a Whole Evening to Update My Profile Photo
From updated sporadically at best

Dropbox Selective Sync Bug, or How It Took a Whole Evening to Update My Profile Photo

I encountered a pretty bad Dropbox bug today. I'm wondering if anybody else has encountered anything similar, and also wanted to share how I got around it in case...

Price Optimization Using Decision Trees
From The Eponymous Pickle

Price Optimization Using Decision Trees

 Interesting example, a technique I also experimented with for Retail.  Good because it relates to specific business process, and be can tested in that context....

Data Storage Best Practices for Life Science Workflows
From insideHPC

Data Storage Best Practices for Life Science Workflows

"Unchecked data growth and data sprawl are having a profound impact on life science workflows. As data volumes continue to grow, researchers and IT leaders face...

Making it Easier for Happy Customers to Buy More
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making it Easier for Happy Customers to Buy More

Yes.   Amazon understands this with Prime and Dash and Echo.  In the HBR:   " ... You have great loyalty scores and low customer churn. But sales are flat – or...

FPGAs Accelerate Machine Learning at Baidu
From insideHPC

FPGAs Accelerate Machine Learning at Baidu

Xilinx has announced that Baidu, a Chinese language Internet search provider, is utilizing Xilinx FPGAs to accelerate machine learning applications in its datacenters...

Neural Brain to Text Progress
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neural Brain to Text Progress

Remember this topic being brought up for a long time, and often claims that is was close to happening.  Have now been involved in the spoken interface for someFront...

Considering Rebel Talent
From The Eponymous Pickle

Considering Rebel Talent

Let Your Workers Rebel  by Francesca GinoEmployee engagement is a problem. To fix it, encourage your workers to break rules and be themselves. We’ll show you who...

GHC16 / Building a Better Classroom: Lessons from Ed-Tech
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

GHC16 / Building a Better Classroom: Lessons from Ed-Tech

One of the panels I attended at this week's Grace Hopper Celebration featured women from various companies engaging in ed tech, whether as their sole purpose or...

Storytelling for Brands in CPG
From The Eponymous Pickle

Storytelling for Brands in CPG

In Adage:How Storytelling Training Helped Georgia-Pacific Build Sales Without Boosting Budgets ... Georgia-Pacific's creative overhaul of eight brands is rooted...

IOT as an Integration of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

IOT as an Integration of Things

Nicely done article.  Clear it is an integration of things.  But the how and details need to be closely considered.

Turing Data into Leverage, Decisions.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Turing Data into Leverage, Decisions.

Always my ultimate argument, its about the decisions being made.Turning data into leverageOzan Turgut discusses how to use visualization and analytics to applyVideo...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Absolute Firsts

An initiative for women in computing AIA source Louise Bethune was the first female professional architect in the United States, and possibly the world. She worked...

GCS Supports Two German Student Teams for the SC16 Student Cluster Competition
From insideHPC

GCS Supports Two German Student Teams for the SC16 Student Cluster Competition

Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in Germany announced it is co-sponsoring undergraduate students participating in the SC16 Student Cluster Competition...

RAID Inc. to Distribute BeeGFS in the U.S.
From insideHPC

RAID Inc. to Distribute BeeGFS in the U.S.

Today ThinkParQ in Germany announced that RAID Inc has been selected as a North American Gold Partner for distributing the BeeGFS parallel file system. This strategic...

Conversational Analytics Using AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Conversational Analytics Using AI

An obvious thought, place bot style AI into a conversational interaction about doing analytics for given problems and data.    The caution is still that we still...

Upcoming conference on design & sustainable innovation for smart cities
From Putting People First

Upcoming conference on design & sustainable innovation for smart cities

Invitation to the International Conference on Design & Sustainable Innovation for SmartCities Nice (France) 8 December 2016 On the 8th December 2016, the CITYOPT...

[Book] From Notes to Narrative
From Putting People First

[Book] From Notes to Narrative

From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies that Everyone Can Read by Kristen Ghodsee The University of Chicago Press 2016, 160 pages Ethnography centers on[Book]...
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