Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Putting People First
Global Social Media Impact Study
The Global Social Media Impact Study based at the UCL Department of Anthropology (London, UK) is dedicated to understanding the implications of social networking...
From Putting People First
Graphic novel explains our role in the world of Big Data
Big Data powers the modern world. What do we gain from Big Data? What do we lose? Al Jazeera America examines the role of technology and the implications of sharing...
From Computational Complexity
Metrics in Academics
Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants, winning the World Series last night. In honor of their victory let's talk metrics. Baseball has truly embraced metrics...
From Putting People First
The BancoSmart ATM by Experientia for UniCredit selected for ADI Design Index
Last year Experientia designed the interface of an ATM of UniCredit, a major Italian bank. The interface is now rolled out across the bank’s ATMs in Italy, to great...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Service Robots at Lowes
Lowes has always been high on innovation. Now taking a new retail step forward. I like in particular the idea of the robots working collaboratively with liveIn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connected Health Focus
The latest Cisco Focus Magazine is devoted to Connected Health. " .... This month, Focus, Cisco’s monthly online publication, takes a look at the latest Connected...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Less Stable Social Media World
Social media leading to a less stable world? In Knowledge@ Wharton: " ... While social media provides myriad benefits, the advances in connectivity and wealth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recomputing Visualizations
Recently did work on the area of laboratory data business intelligence, and this work at MIT came up:" ... In the age of big data, visualization tools are vital...
From Schneier on Security
The Risk of Unfounded Ebola Fears
Good essay. Worry about Ebola (or anything) manifests physically as what's known as a fight, flight, or freeze response. Biological systems ramp up or down to focus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analytics Preps the Data
In InfoWorld: Looking forward to seeing this. It is a very key thing to getting analytics done right. " ... "Often what business users do is rely on a data scientist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Twitter form Partnership to Address Enterprise Decisions
Press release:" .. Twitter and IBM today announced a landmark partnership that will help transform how businesses and institutions understand their customers,#IBMInsight...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Health Scanning with Sweat Sensors
From our local University of Cincinnati, whose board I was on for years: " ... A University of Cincinnati partnership is reporting a significant leap forward in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing Your Quantified Self
In Mashable: We are quantifying ourselves every day. A massive amount of data, mostly shared. But it is also a movement that is attempting to leverage their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Water Canary
Brought to my attention as a sensor and data gathering example: The Water Canary." ... The Water Canary is an inexpensive water-testing device that makes it possible...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Analytics Platforms
In Informationweek: " ... Data analysis is a do-or-die requirement for today's businesses. We analyze notable vendor choices, from Hadoop upstarts to traditional...
From Schneier on Security
FDA Guidance on Medical Device Cybersecurity
The Food and Drug Administration has released guidelines regarding the security of medical devices. I admit that I have not read it....
From Putting People First
Experientia at EPIC: UX transforming a financial institution
In September 2014 Experientia gave a presentation on working as UX professionals with financial institutions at the EPIC conference in New York. The paper is now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Automobiles from Bill Ford
From McKinsey: Long view on the future of automobile technology. " ... There are a lot of forces converging in the auto industry right now, including urbanization...
From The Eponymous Pickle