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From The Eponymous Pickle

Emojis Creating Data

New kind of data to mine. This was brought up in internal work. Leverge what the consumer provides.There's Data in Those Emojis -- and Marketers Want to Mine... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 17, 2015 at 10:12 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever and Click Fraud

In Mediapost: " ... It's one thing for researchers and journalists to band around click-fraud statistics, and quite another for Unilever's CMO to come out with... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 17, 2015 at 10:08 AM

From insideHPC

IBM Improves Solar Forecasts with Machine Learning

Today IBM Research announced that solar and wind forecasts produced using machine learning and other cognitive computing technologies are proving to be as muchIBM... staff
From insideHPC | July 17, 2015 at 08:53 AM

From insideHPC

Video: How Univa Helps Shared Mission-critical and High-performance Datacenters

"Univa is a workload optimization company. Our core product, Grid Engine software, creates a single virtual high throughput, high performance and hyper-scale compute... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 17, 2015 at 08:16 AM

From insideHPC

Argonne Names Distinguished Fellows for 2015

Argonne National Laboratory has named Barry Smith, Charles Macal and Branko Ruscic as its 2015 Distinguished Fellows. The post Argonne Names Distinguished Fellows... staff
From insideHPC | July 17, 2015 at 08:12 AM

From Schneier on Security

Using Secure Chat

Micah Lee has a good tutorial on installing and using secure chat. To recap: We have installed Orbot and connected to the Tor network on Android, and we have installed... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 17, 2015 at 07:35 AM

From Putting People First

Using collective intelligence to solve complex societal issues

Acclaimed anthropologist Stefana Broadbent leads a new “Collective Intelligence” unit at Nesta, the UK innovation charity, that is “looking at ways to support the... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 17, 2015 at 06:39 AM

From insideHPC

CEA Taps Bull Atos for Next Step Towards Exascale

Atos, the multinational digital services company, has signed a contract with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, the CEA, to supply Tera1000... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 17, 2015 at 06:35 AM

From insideHPC

Video: Highlights of Day 2 at ISC 2015

In this video, attendees discuss highlights from Day 2 of the ISC 2015 conference, including the conference's industry track, exhibit floor, and vendor parties.... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 17, 2015 at 06:10 AM

From Putting People First

Interview with Amy Parnell, Director of UX at LinkedIn

SocialTimes recently chatted with Amy Parnell, the director of user experience at LinkedIn, to learn more about what goes into a redesign (or a slight tweak). What... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 17, 2015 at 06:07 AM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Privacy Enabling Design Workshop Report

The Privacy by Design four workshop series is well underway. With two workshops completed and two to come, the community engagement is high and the interest is... Helen Wright
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 16, 2015 at 03:28 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamification, Jobs and Cognition

I gave a talk today to IBM's CSI Group, on "Gamification and Cognitive Systems; Opportunities for Enhancing and Defining Jobs" ... Slides and recording linked... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 16, 2015 at 01:58 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Tests Direct Retail

First Amazon Prime, then Google adds the buy button, then Wal-Mart copies Prime, now in Adage, Facebook wants to add another retail buy route from their very crowded... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 16, 2015 at 01:03 PM

From Schneier on Security

ProxyHam Canceled

The ProxyHam project (and associated Def Con talk) has been canceled under mysterious circumstances. No one seems to know anything, and conspiracy theories abound... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 16, 2015 at 12:00 PM

From Computational Complexity

Microsoft Faculty Summit

Last week I participated in my first Microsoft Faculty Summit, an annual soiree where Microsoft brings about a hundred faculty to Redmond to see the latest in Microsoft... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | July 16, 2015 at 08:40 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting Answers from your Big Data

In Datanami: A set of useful questions to consider, especially with regard to sources like IOT, where more and faster will become common. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 16, 2015 at 08:24 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Creative Manufacturing

Via O'Reilly IOT Newsletter:Etsy recently conducted a study on manufacturing and independent creative businesses. The maker movement provides an excellent growth... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 16, 2015 at 08:17 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Closer to Dominating Physical Retail

Deloitte: Digital moving closer to dominating physical retail Digital interactions are expected to influence 64 cents of every dollar spent in retail stores by... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 16, 2015 at 08:10 AM

From insideHPC

Coprocessor File System Support

To get maximum performance from the Intel Xeon Phi, applications may have to be re-thought to take advantage of the SIMD architecture. The post Coprocessor File... MichaelS
From insideHPC | July 16, 2015 at 07:30 AM

From insideHPC

Video: Looking Back at Day 1 at ISC 2015

In this video, attendees discuss Day 1 of the ISC 2015 conference. "Commemorating 30 years of conference journey, ISC High Performance will present you with another... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 16, 2015 at 06:54 AM