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From Putting People First

[Book] Netnography Redefined

Netnography Redefined by Robert V Kozinets (York University, Canada) Sage Publications, 288 pages July 2015 Social media and the internet are rich, fertile sources... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 28, 2015 at 08:36 AM

From Putting People First

Open Policy Making: A people-centred approach to transform UK local services

Open Policy Making is about recognising that top down thinking and decision making no longer can deliver the range of services that people and communities have... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 28, 2015 at 06:18 AM

From Putting People First

[Book] Doing Sensory Ethnography

Doing Sensory Ethnography by Sarah Pink Sage Publications Paperback, 232 pages Second edition, February 2015 Between 2010 – 2014, a team of UK anthropologists,... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 28, 2015 at 05:32 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Design Sketching and Coding

From IEEE: A favorite topic, how do we take the informal sketches of a non graphic artist and convert them into knowledge with precision? See also poston CogSketch... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 28, 2015 at 12:30 AM

From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Communicate by Flashing Each Other

Scientists are attaching cameras to Humboldt squid to watch them communicate with each other. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | February 27, 2015 at 06:00 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Useful Data Science Tutorials

Have mentioned this resource before, but I passed it on to a colleague today and see it is worth mentioning again. A resource of key short tutorials for data scientists... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 27, 2015 at 04:09 PM

From Schneier on Security

Data and Goliath Book Tour

Over the next two weeks, I am speaking about my new book -- Data and Goliath, if you've missed it -- in New York, Boston, Washington, DC, Seattle, San Francisco... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | February 27, 2015 at 03:55 PM

From insideHPC

Video: DEEP-ER Project Reaches for Exascale

In the video, the DEEP-ER project paves the way to energy-efficient Exascale computing. Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 27, 2015 at 02:23 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Enterprise Data Usage

Statement of a growing problem. Recently saw this in a project. More about the kind of and completeness of data rather than the volume of data."As the volumeEnterprises... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 27, 2015 at 02:17 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Fembots and the Gender of AI

Interesting piece on the presented gender of AI and notably robotics as it is delivered today. Why is this often presented as female? I think this will change... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 27, 2015 at 02:03 PM

From insideHPC

Slidecast: Deep Learning – Unreasonably Effective

"Deep Learning is a new area of Machine Learning research, which has been introduced with the objective of moving Machine Learning closer to one of its original... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 27, 2015 at 01:28 PM

From insideHPC

HPC News Roundup for February 27, 2015

As we head into the busy event season we like to call HPC March Madness, the past week has had its share of notable news items that didn't make it to the Features... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 27, 2015 at 12:00 PM

From insideHPC

ISC High Performance Announces Hans Meuer Award

"We are pleased to announce that ISC is introducing the Hans Meuer Award to honor the most outstanding research paper submitted to the conference’s research paper... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 27, 2015 at 11:10 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Tech Megatrends and IT

In CIOInsight. A good survey on the influence of tech megatrends on IT. Obvious examples like Bringing your own devices in the enterprise. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 27, 2015 at 11:10 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Spontaneous Discovery

Thoughtful piece work a scan from the Tom Peters Blog:Surprise, Transformation & Excellence through “Spontaneous Discovery”:A Personal Saga, this is a revision... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 27, 2015 at 07:29 AM

From Putting People First

Steve Portigal’s insider view of corporate user research

The acclaimed UX researcher Steve Portigal hosts the DollarsToDonuts podcast series [iTunes | Twitter] where he talks with the people who lead user research in... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 27, 2015 at 03:47 AM

From Writing

How can you validate an idea before jumping in and actually implementing it?

My answer on Quora to How can you validate an idea before jumping in and actually implementing it?:
From Writing | February 26, 2015 at 07:00 PM

From Computational Complexity

Selecting the Correct Oracle

After my post last week on the Complexity accepts, a friend of Shuichi Hirahara send Shuichi an email saying that I was interested in his paper. Shuichi contacted... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | February 26, 2015 at 05:22 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Book: Big Data Revolution is Big Data at work.

Just received a preview copy of: Big Data Revolution: What farmers, doctors and insurance agents teach us about discovering big data patterns by Rob Thomas and... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 26, 2015 at 03:35 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Research Opportunities in Europe

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released two Dear Colleague Letters (DCL) describing research opportunities in Europe. Dear Colleague Letter: Research... Helen Wright
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | February 26, 2015 at 03:19 PM