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Becoming patient-centric: the case for a humanistic approach to patient insight-mining
From Putting People First

Becoming patient-centric: the case for a humanistic approach to patient insight-mining

While patient-centricity is at the top of the agenda of most Life Science organizations, there is an urgent need for commercial teams to evolve their market research...

Becoming patient-centric: the case for a humanistic approach to patient insight-mining
From Putting People First

Becoming patient-centric: the case for a humanistic approach to patient insight-mining

While patient-centricity is at the top of the agenda of most Life Science organizations, there is an urgent need for commercial teams to evolve their market research...

The Moral Dimension of Cryptography
From Schneier on Security

The Moral Dimension of Cryptography

Phil Rogaway has written an excellent paper titled "The Moral Character of Cryptography Work." In it, he exhorts cryptographers to consider the morality of their...

Data Science from Scratch
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Science from Scratch

Very nice intro to Data Science,  Only moderately technical.  Covers a number of the most important concepts very well.  Also instructional Python examplesDataby...

Amazon Fulfillment Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Fulfillment Robotics

On Amazon Fulfillment robotics.   Note in particular the augmentation and cooperation with.  This makes robots better unit resources.In Wired: " ... Amazon’s robots...

A review of Google’s Exploring Computational Thinking resources
From Computer Science Teachers Association

A review of Google’s Exploring Computational Thinking resources

By Joe Kmoch In Spring 2015, Google began work on revamping their CT website. Their materials are available at a website called Exploring Computational Thinking...

Video: High Performance Clustering for Trillion Particle Simulations
From insideHPC

Video: High Performance Clustering for Trillion Particle Simulations

"Modern Cosmology and Plasma Physics codes are capable of simulating trillions of particles on petascale systems. Each time step generated from such simulations...

Avere Enables Cloudbursting Across Different Providers at SC15
From insideHPC

Avere Enables Cloudbursting Across Different Providers at SC15

"Avere Systems is now offering you ultimate cloud flexibility. We've now announced full support across three different cloud service providers: Google, Amazon,Avere...

Why Detroit needs user-centered design
From Putting People First

Why Detroit needs user-centered design

The transition to AVs is very much a human evolution grounded in designing a complex and nuanced relationship between the machine and us—regardless of how goodWhy...

Why Detroit needs user-centered design
From Putting People First

Why Detroit needs user-centered design

The transition to AVs is very much a human evolution grounded in designing a complex and nuanced relationship between the machine and us—regardless of how goodWhy...

QCD Optimization
From insideHPC

QCD Optimization

Quantum chromodynamics is the theory of the strong nuclear force. The applications using theis theory are used heavily in the study of nuclear interactions. A significant...

[Book] Swedish design, an ethnography
From Putting People First

[Book] Swedish design, an ethnography

Swedish Design, An Ethnography By Keith M. Murphy Cornell University Press April 2015, 264 pages Swedish designers are noted for producing distinctive and elegant...

[Book] Swedish design, an ethnography
From Putting People First

[Book] Swedish design, an ethnography

Swedish Design, An Ethnography By Keith M. Murphy Cornell University Press April 2015, 264 pages Swedish designers are noted for producing distinctive and elegant...

1degreenorth to Prototype HPDA Infrastructure in Singapore
From insideHPC

1degreenorth to Prototype HPDA Infrastructure in Singapore

At SC15, 1degreenorth announced plans to build an on-demand High Performance Computing Big DataAnalytics (“HPC-BDA”) infrastructure the National Supercomputing1degreenorth...

Progress and Challenges in Interactive Cognitive Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Progress and Challenges in Interactive Cognitive Systems

CSIG presentation today:" ... Pat Langley, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Auckland and as Director of the Institute for the Study of Learning...

The generation that doesn’t remember life before smartphones
From Putting People First

The generation that doesn’t remember life before smartphones

Jacqueline Detwiler explores for Esquire what it means to be an American teenager in 2015. Zac probably started developing memories around 1999, the year Napster...

The generation that doesn’t remember life before smartphones
From Putting People First

The generation that doesn’t remember life before smartphones

Jacqueline Detwiler explores for Esquire what it means to be an American teenager in 2015. Zac probably started developing memories around 1999, the year Napster...

How AI is Growing Up
From The Eponymous Pickle

How AI is Growing Up

True, but the cost of constructing tailored systems is still high,  starting to see automated systems by industry that will change the way we work.   Part of this...

Intel® Scalable System Framework and Dell’s strategic focus on HPC
From insideHPC

Intel® Scalable System Framework and Dell’s strategic focus on HPC

In this video, Jim Ganthier from Dell and Charlie Wuischpard from Intel describe how their two companies are working together to drive innovation in HPC. "A lot...

Reinventing cancer surgery—by designing a better hospital experience
From Putting People First

Reinventing cancer surgery—by designing a better hospital experience

Memorial Sloan Kettering’s new $300 million cancer center in New York focuses on the well-being of the patient—even as they move you through the process as quickly...
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