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Need for Industrialized Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Need for Industrialized Analytics

Good thoughts by Tom Davenport.  We did this to a degree at Procter & Gamble since the 70s,  by creating a strong industrial competency, but we also had a longImplications...

Video: Penguin Computing Brings ThunderX to OCP Servers
From insideHPC

Video: Penguin Computing Brings ThunderX to OCP Servers

"By introducing Cavium’s 64-bit ARMv8 CPUs in our Penguin Tundra family of Open Compute servers we again step up our leadership position. Our customers get outstanding...

SmartBlog on Food Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

SmartBlog on Food Data

All data has contextual messiness.  How do we combine multiple kinds of data to produce understandable domain knowledge?    Here multiple data in CPG retail among...

A Peer to Peer Bonus Reward System
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Peer to Peer Bonus Reward System

Intriguing bonus system architecture, or a crowd sourcing of rewards?Implementing Peer-to-Peer Bonus System by Savita Pahuja on Aug 03, 2015  Jurgen Appelo, CEO...

Echo now also sold at Staples
From The Eponymous Pickle

Echo now also sold at Staples

In Engadget: Amazon's voice-controlled Echo speaker is now available at Staples.   Also sold directly through Amazon.   Have been testing for a number of home control...

Pepsico Innovation Paying Off
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pepsico Innovation Paying Off

CPG and Beverage companies pushing innovation.PepsiCo R&D chief: ‘Over $6bn in net revenue is coming from innovation’By Kacey Culliney+, 03-Aug-2015PepsiCo’s research...

Why I Don’t Attend Cons
From CERIAS Blog

Why I Don’t Attend Cons

I recently had a couple of students (and former students, and colleagues) ask me if I was attending any of a set of upcoming cons (non-academic/organizational conferences)...

Why I Don’t Attend Cons
From CERIAS Blog

Why I Don’t Attend Cons

I recently had a couple of students (and former students, and colleagues) ask me if I was attending any of a set of upcoming cons (non-academic/organizational conferences)...

Why I Don’t Attend Cons
From CERIAS Blog

Why I Don’t Attend Cons

I recently had a couple of students (and former students, and colleagues) ask me if I was attending any of a set of upcoming cons (non-academic/organizational conferences)...

Coping with accelerating progress: no more five-year plan
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Coping with accelerating progress: no more five-year plan

Today, the life expectancy of a corporation is about 15 years. Though corporations die for many reasons, technology and innovation are often the driving force underneath...

Vulnerabilities in Brink's Smart Safe
From Schneier on Security

Vulnerabilities in Brink's Smart Safe

Brink's sells an Internet-enabled smart safe called the CompuSafe Galileo. Despite being sold as a more secure safe, it's wildly insecure: Vulnerabilities found...

We’d love to see more student-developed apps like NeverLost
From Computer Science Teachers Association

We’d love to see more student-developed apps like NeverLost

A child goes for a walk in the nearby forest… all of a sudden she realizes that she has lost her way. How can she alert her guardian that she may be in danger,Continue...

Blue Sky Ideas- AAAI-RSS Special Workshop on the 50th Anniversary of Shakey
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Blue Sky Ideas- AAAI-RSS Special Workshop on the 50th Anniversary of Shakey

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Track Competition at the AAAI-RSS Special Workshop on the 50th Anniversary of Shakey: The Role...

App may Require FDA Approval
From The Eponymous Pickle

App may Require FDA Approval

This is not unexpected as the article in CW implies.   Just because it is an App does not mean that the public does not need protection against medical scamsNeuroMetrix's...

Compute Canada Joins Women in HPC Network
From insideHPC

Compute Canada Joins Women in HPC Network

Compute Canada has become the first international partner to join the Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) network. "Achieving gender balance in advancedCompute...

Marketing Automation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marketing Automation

In Silicon Angle by Maria Deutscher: " ... What you missed in Big Data; A new era for marketing automation ... Marketing made a comeback into the analytics discussion...

How to Moments on YouTube
From The Eponymous Pickle

How to Moments on YouTube

This came to mind this past week as I searched for several very different how-to needs online.  I some cases I really needed a visual explanation of the technique...

Cobham Updates Opera Mulitphysics Software
From insideHPC

Cobham Updates Opera Mulitphysics Software

Cobham has updated their Opera electromagnetic and multiphysics design software. According to Cobham, the Version 18 release of this finite element analysis and...

NTIA Multistakeholder Process on Drones: First Meeting on August 3
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

NTIA Multistakeholder Process on Drones: First Meeting on August 3

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will hold the first meeting of the new multistakeholder process on drone privacy, transparency...

Video: Faster Data Processing in Python
From insideHPC

Video: Faster Data Processing in Python

In this video from PyCon SG 2015, Anand S. presents: Faster Data Processing in Python. This talk covers methods to process and analyze visualize data faster inVideo...
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