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From Putting People First

The Newspeak of ‘human-centred’ [Book]

Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations Human-Centred Approaches to Security and Development by David Chandler Zed Books Ltd 224 pages, 2013 [Amazon link]... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 21, 2013 at 09:00 AM

From Putting People First

Conference Review: UX STRAT 2013, Part 1

UX STRAT, the first every user experience strategy conference, took place in September in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center. Pabini Gabriel... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 21, 2013 at 08:42 AM

From Schneier on Security

The Trajectories of Government and Corporate Surveillance

Historically, surveillance was difficult and expensive. Over the decades, as technology advanced, surveillance became easier and easier. Today, we find ourselves... schneier
From Schneier on Security | October 21, 2013 at 07:05 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 21 October 2013

Windows 8.1 came out last week. I’ve updated one of my computers so far. Seems to go well so far. I’ll probably update the rest of my computers during the week.... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 21, 2013 at 06:12 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics at the Intersection of Humans and Machines

If makes much sense to combine human and machine intelligence. Include the ability of the researcher and find ways to integrate it with better user interfaces.... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 21, 2013 at 03:38 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning Innovation Entrepreneurship

In Innovation Excellence: Successful Innovative Entrepreneurship is Seldom Learnt at Business School. Quite true. Its more like being agile, using tacit and dynamic... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 20, 2013 at 04:02 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Next Gen Databases

Via Gib Bassett:What problems do next Gen Databases solve? Good introductory read:" ... The past decades organisations have been working with relational databases... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 20, 2013 at 10:39 AM

From My Biased Coin

NSF Coming Back Online

I was impressed how quickly the NSF got Fastlane back online. (I think it was turned on a few hours after the shutdown was ended.) But like many people, I'm awaiting... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | October 20, 2013 at 10:35 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Monopolies and Innovation

Clarence Hickman at Bell labs had invented a mag tape telephone answering machine in the 1934... But they decided to squelch turning it into a consumer product.... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 20, 2013 at 10:28 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeking Common Languages for Data Visualization

An item in Fierce CIO attracted my attention. Which pointed to Tom Davenport's HBR blog article this past April. About how P&G is creating and delivering standardized... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 20, 2013 at 01:01 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Report on Brains on the Path to Purchase

In my last message I indicated my acquired skepticism on some current neuromarketing work. Just to provide some balance, let me point a report from a recent conference... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 19, 2013 at 03:33 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Detecting Mathematical Thinking

Can we detect reliably the specific nature of the thoughts in the brain? Some work reported on in Nature Communications that show we can deferentially detect the... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 19, 2013 at 03:15 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Connected TV and Internet of Things

We did lots of work in our 'future home' experiments in our innovation centers to understand how the home would ultimately be interconnected both inside and outside... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 19, 2013 at 02:54 PM

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Teaching Helps Research

How teaching interacts with research Tim Budd is a computer scientist who works mostly in programming theory and practice. He once was a graduate student of mine... rjlipton
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | October 19, 2013 at 01:41 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

In Line Help

Google has added inline help in several of its services. More here. Slightly more convenient in the actual context of the problem. Intelligence always exists... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 19, 2013 at 11:17 AM

From Putting People First

Architects don’t listen to people

Christine Outram left the architecture profession because, she says, architects “don’t listen to people“. “The truth is, most of you don’t try. You rely on rules... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 19, 2013 at 02:34 AM

From Putting People First

The design of Copenhagen as a bicycle friendly city

In a ten part video series, Copenhagenize Design Co explores the top 10 design elements that make Copenhagen a bicycle-friendly city. In the embedded video above... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 19, 2013 at 02:20 AM

From Putting People First

Observations from an ethnography conference

Alexa Curtis recently attended EPIC, the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, a truly international gathering of ethnographers, anthropologists, strategists... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 19, 2013 at 02:00 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Graphics Chips for High Speed Visualization

In Technology Review: Work from MIT. Reviewing. See their public interface and demonstration which looks at Twitter data. Lets you look at a database of 11... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 18, 2013 at 05:55 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Educause Conference Reprise

Been a long time reader of Educause, even before the Web, as a newsletter. I see that the Cisco blog is writing about their conference. Some good posts recently... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 18, 2013 at 05:17 PM