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[Report] Design for Service Innovation & Development
From Putting People First

[Report] Design for Service Innovation & Development

Design for Service Innovation & Development: Final Report Edited by y Daniela Sangiorgi, Alison Prendiville, Jeyon Jung and Eun Yu May 2015 DeSID (Design for Service...

How Cloud is Changing our Lives
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Cloud is Changing our Lives

In the WSJ: Really more how efficient, online, data rich, ubiquitous computing is continuing to change our our lives.  And yes, implemented on the Cloud.  Nothing...

AI and Future of Industry
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Future of Industry

Steve Omohundro on:Lifeboat Interview on the Implications of AI for the Future of Industry.  On July 30, 2015 Dan Faggella wrote an article for the Lifeboat Foundation...

Cisco Managing Video
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cisco Managing Video

I reported on this some time ago, as it related to Video Content Analysis. (VCA) and its use for ad management in store.Cisco introduces ‘videoscape unity’ to manage...

A Report on the Open Source Era
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Report on the Open Source Era

The Open Source EraAn Oxford Economics Study Commissioned by WiproOpen source is mainstream today.Why are businesses shifting to open source software? What areKnow...

Bouncing Camera Gathers Images, Realities
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bouncing Camera Gathers Images, Realities

Fast image gathering for reconnaissance and image based reality creation.  Possibilities.Police Are Now Testing This Harvard Startup's Throwable CamerasBounce Imaging...

Friday Squid Blogging: Russian Sailors Video Colossal Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Russian Sailors Video Colossal Squid

It tried to steal their catch. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....

Schneier Speaking Schedule
From Schneier on Security

Schneier Speaking Schedule

I'm speaking at an Infoedge event at Bali Hai Golf Club in Las Vegas, at 5 PM on August 5, 2015. I'm speaking at DefCon 23 on Friday, August 7, 2015. I'm speaking...

Amazon Dash Button now Available to Prime Members
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Dash Button now Available to Prime Members

In Silicon Angle: The  Long awaited Amazon Dash Buy Button is now available from Amazon.    " ... Amazon.com is now officially selling its Dash Button for $4.99...

Service Design in Consumer Banking: the challenges and opportunities
From Putting People First

Service Design in Consumer Banking: the challenges and opportunities

Last month the people from Irish UX consultancy Frontend Design looked at the UX revolution in healthcare and how changes in that sector are moving towards putting...

[Book] Excited to announce the new book by John Thackara
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[Book] Excited to announce the new book by John Thackara

How to thrive in the next economy by John Thackara Thames & Hudson August 2015, 192pp Abstract Drawing on a lifetime of travel in search of real-world alternatives...

HAMMERTOSS: New Russian Malware
From Schneier on Security

HAMMERTOSS: New Russian Malware

Fireeye has a detailed report of a sophisticated piece of Russian malware: HAMMERTOSS. It uses some clever techniques to hide: The Hammertoss backdoor malware looks...

Video: HPC-Workloads using Docker
From insideHPC

Video: HPC-Workloads using Docker

In this video from ISC 2015, Wolfgang Gentzsch from The UberCloud presents: HPC Workloads Using Docker. "The UberCloud Project provides an environment to run HPC...

USACM Submits Comments to NIST on Privacy Risk Management for Federal Information Systems
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

USACM Submits Comments to NIST on Privacy Risk Management for Federal Information Systems

USACM today submitted comments to NIST on the draft report, Privacy Risk Management for Federal Information Systems (NISTIR 8062). USACM supports NIST’s efforts...

Agenda Posted for HPC User Forum, Sept. 8-10 in Broomfield
From insideHPC

Agenda Posted for HPC User Forum, Sept. 8-10 in Broomfield

IDC has published the agenda for their next HPC User Forum. The event will take place Sept. 8-10 in Broomfield, CO. The post Agenda Posted for HPC User Forum, Sept...

Many New Channels on IFTTT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Many New Channels on IFTTT

I see that IFTTT has added 17 new  channels of data this month.  Intrigued by its use for combining sources of data with logic to perform actions.  A very mild"...

Knights Landing Prototype Powers Cosmology at ISC 2015
From insideHPC

Knights Landing Prototype Powers Cosmology at ISC 2015

In this video from the Intel booth at ISC 2015, Dr Juha Jäykkä, ‎COSMOS System Manager at University of Cambridge describes a cosmology demonstration running on...

CVS Pharmacy and IBM Watson
From The Eponymous Pickle

CVS Pharmacy and IBM Watson

Good example of an advisory system interacting with the consumer.   Being built today based on some of the work created in the Watson project,    Look forward to...

Brands, Private and National, Matter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brands, Private and National, Matter

From Bain:  National brand vs Private label.  " .... It was only a decade ago when many industry analysts looked at two looming trends—the rise of retail consolidation...

Big Data and Statistics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data and Statistics

A non technical overview of statistics and its relationship to the use of data in business.  Often management does need a well thought out description of a tech...
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