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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Psst—It’s The Definition

Definitions are extremely important src Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali won the 2012 ACM Turing Award last March for their seminal work in cryptography. We are...

Multiple Prisms with Similar Purposes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Multiple Prisms with Similar Purposes

The Prism system has been much in the news today, apparently a multiple dimension-ed data gathering and predictive analytics system,  recently exposed as a government...

Senate Briefing on Accessible Information and Communication Technologies
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Senate Briefing on Accessible Information and Communication Technologies

Former U.S. Congressman Tony Coelho, who was the primary author and sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, moderated a Senate briefing yesterday...

From Computational Complexity

Complexity Typecast

Lance: Welcome to another exciting typecast coming from sunny Stanford University. I'm with Bill at the 28th Conference on Computational Complexity. Hi Bill, IBill...

CG Execs Share Marketing Insights
From The Eponymous Pickle

CG Execs Share Marketing Insights

From CGT:  Mention of a number of interesting items including the use of Big Data.   The meeting was named:   " "Datatopia: From Big Data to Meaningful Customer...

Fuzzy Logix
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fuzzy Logix

Newly brought to my attention and examining in more depth.  Fuzzy Logix.   " .... We enable companies to embed in-database analytics directly into their business...

Disruptive Technologies from McKinsey
From The Eponymous Pickle

Disruptive Technologies from McKinsey

McKinsey looks at disruptive technologies.  " ... Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy, a report from the...

What Big Data Means
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Big Data Means

Bob Inmon provides a useful Venn diagram to describe what Big Data is and how it relates to other kinds of data.  Text is certainly the most important part of unstructured...

Collaboration with Lists and Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Collaboration with Lists and Search

In CWorld:  Short view on the continued evolution of collaboration software.  Its acceptance within the enterprise.   As they say there,  this started with a very...

Participatory design in healthcare
From Putting People First

Participatory design in healthcare

Participatory Design in Healthcare: Patients and doctors can bridge critical information gaps is the title of a UX Magazine article by Andrii Glushko, a UX designer...

Gary Cokins on EPM Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gary Cokins on EPM Analytics

A piece that overviews some of Gary Cokin's view on analytics.  Have  read and passed a few of his columns.  Well done.  He talks about Enterprise Performance Management...

Technology puts power in the hands of the Millennial Generation
From Putting People First

Technology puts power in the hands of the Millennial Generation

This week the Financial Times has run two reports on the Millennial Generation. Part Two (pdf) came out today, whereas Part One is from June 3. Part Two’s leading...

The future of human-centered design
From Putting People First

The future of human-centered design

“Throughout my career, and especially as a designer at IDEO,” writes Nathan Waterhouse, “I’ve been a passionate believer of the value of placing people first, of...

The Cost of Terrorism in Pakistan
From Schneier on Security

The Cost of Terrorism in Pakistan

This study claims "terrorism has cost Pakistan around 33.02% of its real national income" between the years 1973 and 2008, or about 1% per year. The St. Louis$100...

Experientia presentation at EPIC London
From Putting People First

Experientia presentation at EPIC London

EPIC, the premier international gathering on the current and future practice of ethnography in the business world, just announced the program of its upcoming conference...

Indoor Positioning and Navigation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Indoor Positioning and Navigation

An important approach for retail navigation applications.   We studied this for a number of inventory and checkout applications.  Also in conjunction with tagging...

Eugene Spafford Answers Questions on CNN.com
From Schneier on Security

Eugene Spafford Answers Questions on CNN.com

Excellent interview.

Wisee Body Gesture Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wisee Body Gesture Recognition

A UK correspondent sends along a BBC article on the use of Wifi for gesture recognition.  We explored how gestures might be used in the store aisle.   The simpler...

FTC Looks at Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

FTC Looks at Internet of Things

An upcoming FTC workshop that looks to be of interest.     The emphasis in consumer applications: " ... The workshop aims to help the FTC get to grips with this...

Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2013)
From Schneier on Security

Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2013)

I'm at the Sixth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2013). This year we're in Los Angeles, at USC -- hosted by CREATE. My description...
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