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Executive View: of Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Executive View: of Big Data

WSJ on Big Data: What the management is scanning at least.  Registration required.    " ... Meet the New Boss: Big Data .... Companies Trade In Hunch-Based Hiring...

Busting Glass Myths
From The Eponymous Pickle

Busting Glass Myths

Have been looking at Glass for the enterprise issues lately, and this CW Google piece on the myths behind the Glass makes me think.    Applicable issues to other...

DARPA Program Manager on Robotics, Commercial Investments
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

DARPA Program Manager on Robotics, Commercial Investments

In an article on Robohub, Gill Pratt, Program Manager of DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office, shares his thoughts on advances and changes in the robotics field. Pratt...

Going Visual with Your Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

Going Visual with Your Research

I see that Zakta is putting out some new marketing on their research methodology.  Have been talking to them for years (but have never been paid by them).  They...

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 24
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 24

March 26 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on public-private partnerships in cybersecurity. 10 a.m.,...

More on Social Networking for CS Educators
From Computer Science Teachers Association

More on Social Networking for CS Educators

Last month Patrice Gans had a great post Creating a Professional Learning Network here on the CSTA blog about creating a professional learning network using Twitter...

Walmart's New Blog Leveraging Acquisition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Walmart's New Blog Leveraging Acquisition

Late on this, but of interest.  Leveraging knowledge and storytelling online.   " ... Walmart launches its new corporate blog, utilizing it to announce that itI...

Wal-Mart Labs and Yumprint
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Labs and Yumprint

A recent post on YumPrint made me look at the Wal-Mart Labs site.   Well worth a follow by those interested in retail technology.  I visited their labs a number...

Basic R Tutorials in YouTube
From The Eponymous Pickle

Basic R Tutorials in YouTube

Basic R for Newbies In Youtube.   Have not looked at these closely yet, but looks to be worth while. Several dozen short tutorials, in understandable English, with...

Data Visualization and Storytelling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Visualization and Storytelling

Does data visualization plus story telling equal infographics?   It can be done, but often is is sloppy and non objective.  How can you tell the difference?   ...

Value of Open Government Data Streams
From The Eponymous Pickle

Value of Open Government Data Streams

Lots of open government data is available, and combined with corporate data, can lead to value. But since it has not been constructed with usability in mind, its...

Devices Can Have Personalities
From The Eponymous Pickle

Devices Can Have Personalities

The personality of devices.    An interesting experiment that creates some new approaches to design consideration between product and consumer." ... Injecting some...

Crowdfunding for design: ITC-ILO campaign for training and facilitation card set
From Putting People First

Crowdfunding for design: ITC-ILO campaign for training and facilitation card set

Are you a trainer? Do you facilitate meetings? The International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITC-ILO, a specialised, not-for-profit...

What is it that you do exactly?
From Putting People First

What is it that you do exactly?

When you work in user experience or one of its many subsets, you tend to hear questions about what you do a lot. UX professionals often get this inquiry from parents...

Interesting Links 24 March 2014
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 24 March 2014

Supposedly spring arrived in New England last week. The daffodils working their way up in my front yard suggest that may actually have happened. The piles of snow...

Your Product and Word of Mouth
From The Eponymous Pickle

Your Product and Word of Mouth

Word of mouth for any product?MARKETINGThink Your Product Is Too Boring for Word of Mouth Marketing? Think AgainNew Wharton research shows consumers communicate...

Cisco and Conferencing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cisco and Conferencing

Cisco targets empty conference rooms with videoconferencing pushCisco is readying a suite of new and enhanced videoconferencing solutions designed to offer companies...

From Computational Complexity

The answer is either 0,1, or on the board

I have heard (and later told people) that the in a math course if you don't know the answer you should guess either 0 or 1 or something on the board. This works...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Rabin Meets Lagrange

On Rabin’s recent talks at Tech Jeffrey Shallit is a computational number theorist, with many wonderful results. He is also well known for his work as an advocate...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Rabin Meets Lagrange

On Rabin’s recent talks at Tech Jeffrey Shallit is a computational number theorist, with many wonderful results. He is also well known for his work as an advocate...
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