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Need Business Analytics Help?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Need Business Analytics Help?

Need help with business analytics?  Big Data visualization, analysis and mining?   Writing, Speaking, Managing.  Strategy and Tactics.  Over thirty years of experience...

CCC Chair Susan Graham is named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Chair Susan Graham is named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy

President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate two new members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy (PCAST).  The...

Six Degrees of Connection to P&G
From The Eponymous Pickle

Six Degrees of Connection to P&G

After publishing a item about an infographic I liked,  about products we buy, it was pointed out that some of the data was incorrect.  That is true.  But I wasinfographic...

Cognitive AI Apps in the Cloud
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive AI Apps in the Cloud

More on the IBM giving access to Watson technologies to allow the building of cognitive Apps in the cloud.   A good direction.  The App style of infrastructure...

Amazon's Business Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon's Business Models

In the HBR:  Indicating that they constantly audit their business model.  Which has led to increases in the number of US warehouses, and their recent proposal to...

Mining Health Care Information
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mining Health Care Information

In Freebeacon: How can social media information be mined for indications of health related behavior?  " ... Specifically, NLM will look at the “value of tweets...

CSTA Seeking CS Education Leaders for Board Positions
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CSTA Seeking CS Education Leaders for Board Positions

As we approach the start of the new calendar year, it is time to start the CSTA Board of Directors nominations and elections process once again. CSTA is a member...

Trolling IKEA
From The Eponymous Pickle

Trolling IKEA

In Adage: We have an Ikea store nearby.  The number of items they have is so large that it is hard to believe anyone can recognize one that is out of place.  So...

Defensiveness in Communications
From The Eponymous Pickle

Defensiveness in Communications

In the HBR:  I like this argument about not being defensive in communications.  Found myself in this position.  And has some practical methods to implement it that...

Data is Decentralized
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data is Decentralized

An aspect I had never thought about very much, but very true. " ... Let’s look at IT in a simple way. There are users, there are applications, there is hardware...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

The Graph of Math

The last part of our interview with Gödel two years ago src Kurt Gödel is said to have been a latecomer to appreciating the power of Model Theory. He was of course...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishermen Seen from Space
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishermen Seen from Space

Cool photo. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

Various Schneier Audio and Video Talks and Interviews
From Schneier on Security

Various Schneier Audio and Video Talks and Interviews

News articles about me (or with good quotes by me). My talk at the IETF Vancouver meeting on NSA and surveillance. I'm the first speaker after the administrivia...

Neuromarketing Course
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuromarketing Course

NeuroRelay reports on a free online neuromarketing course that may be of interest. Recall I had previous connections with startups in this area like Buyology Inc...

Coke Online Mag Succeeds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coke Online Mag Succeeds

Coke has an online magazine.  Why does one of the best known brands in the world need its own magazine?   Not sure how this would work with much less known brands...

Amazon Does Data Streams with Kinesis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Does Data Streams with Kinesis

Amazon, like may other players in the space, is now addressing the element of Big Data that looks at big dynamic of high speed, real time data streams.   The legendary...

A Look at SAP Lava
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Look at SAP Lava

From a SAP community blog. Was involved fairy early on with SAP's Business Objects data visualization play.  We approved it for use in the enterprise.  New is a...

Augmented Pixels Continued
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Pixels Continued

Recently brought to my attention this augmented reality delivery company: Augmented Pixels  (Formerly AR3D ) advertising, sales and entertainment implementations...

Security Tents
From Schneier on Security

Security Tents

The US government sets up secure tents for the president and other officials to deal with classified material while traveling abroad. Even when Obama travels to...

Thoughts—Some Random, Some Structured
From CERIAS Blog

Thoughts—Some Random, Some Structured

On October 9th, 2013, I delivered one of the keynote addresses at the ISSA International Conference. I included a number of observations on computing, security,...
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