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From The Eponymous Pickle

WiFi in the Internet of Things

In Ara Technica: Fairly obvious that many things will be connected wirelessly. A home or business is an aggregation of things that need to be connected to joint... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 13, 2014 at 09:43 AM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 13

January 14 Hearing: The Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the scope of copyright... David B.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | January 13, 2014 at 09:22 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Keyboard for Wearable Computing

Just brought to my attention by Lars Asplund: SenseBoard" ... The New Technology that can give you a Virtual keyboard, a mouse, or a gesture sensitive device to... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 13, 2014 at 08:43 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Power of Networks

Crucially its about how to set up, evolve and utilize our networks."The Power of NetworksWhat can a network learn that an individual cannot?By MIT Technology Review... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 13, 2014 at 08:42 AM

From Schneier on Security

How the NSA Threatens National Security

Secret NSA eavesdropping is still in the news. Details about once secret programs continue to leak. The Director of National Intelligence has recently declassified... schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 13, 2014 at 07:28 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 13 January 2014

Highlight this week? Free and inexpensive books! And some links to interesting news and discussions about women and others in AP CS classes. And more so read through... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | January 13, 2014 at 06:25 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Partners for Artificial Intelligence

Facebook joins NYU for AI Lab. They certainly have a lot of social data. Part of a new push towards practical, Big Data oriented AI. IBM's Watson is another... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 12, 2014 at 06:18 PM

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Details Left To The Reader…

The buck stops here—on a blog, that is Stasys Jukna has written a comprehensive book on Boolean circuit complexity, called Boolean Function Complexity: Advances... Pip
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | January 12, 2014 at 02:40 PM

From Putting People First

[Book] Design Transitions

Design Transitions – Inspiring Stories. Global Viewpoints. How design is changing. By Joyce Yee, Emma Jefferies and Lauren Tan BIS Publishers [Book site - Amazon... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 01:11 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Drives Big Data Analytics and Visualization

Listened to these announcements, and the link to analytics is particularly interesting:" ... IBM Watson Analytics aims to remove common impediments in the data ... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 12, 2014 at 12:46 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Furniture Augmented Reality

Now an App from the prolific Augmented Pixels company. Think of these applications as mixing real life contexts and digital contexts. Note some similaritiesAR... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 12, 2014 at 12:35 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

What Does Big Data Look Like?

In Wired: The more complex, large and volatile a database is, the more important it is to understand it first with visualization. As I often preach: The first... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 12, 2014 at 11:57 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Shaping Behavior in Real Time

Devices are already shaping our behavior in real time, but not always to our advantage. Experientia makes the claim that this is a frontier of design. Sensors... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 12, 2014 at 10:26 AM

From Putting People First

The new design: social innovation inspiring business innovation

Cheryl Heller of CommonWise argues that there’s a new design emerging that works from inside a community and at a systems level, impacting human relationships instead... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 06:24 AM

From Putting People First

Design’s next big frontier? Shaping behavior in real time

Small devices with embedded intelligence can do more than just measure; they’re showing their potential to change the way we act, writes Sean Madden in Fast Company... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 06:19 AM

From Putting People First

Solving the right problem and finding your own solution: an interview with Don Norman

At the LAUX Meetup Group, Media Contour’s Luke Swenson was able to track down Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 06:16 AM

From Putting People First

[Book] The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think

The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think by Douglas T. Kenrick and Vladas Griskevicius Basic Books September 2013 [Amazon link] Abstract... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 06:08 AM

From Putting People First

[Essay] Empathy on the edge

Empathy on the Edge Scaling and sustaining a human-centered approach in the evolving practice of design Katja Battarbee, Jane Fulton Suri, and Suzanne Gibbs Howard... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 05:49 AM

From Putting People First

The UX of commercial drones

In order for commercial drones like Amazon’s or Australian startup Flirtey’s to become a reality, the drone (or any future-world technology, really) can’t merely... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 05:20 AM

From Putting People First

150,000 job listings in the user experience field in the USA alone

Hiring managers know that design plays, and will continue to play, a critical role in the success of their companies because: What has been seen cannot be unseen... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 05:15 AM