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Interesting Links 10 December 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 10 December 2012

It’s Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek)! Are you celebrating? As part of the celebration I’ll be joining other tech and computing leaders in a CSEdWeekAlfredTwo...

Book: The Consumer Mind
From The Eponymous Pickle

Book: The Consumer Mind

In Neurorelay:   A review of The Consumer Mind, by Pepe Martinez of Millward Brown.   A company we worked with a few years ago in a conference on neuromarketing...

It’s Not Free If It Cost My Liberty
From Wild WebMink

It’s Not Free If It Cost My Liberty

Actually, your download is not "free" if to gain access I have to trade my personal details so you can spam me.— Simon Phipps (@webmink) December 09, 2012

Organizational Storytelling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Organizational Storytelling

Colleague Paul Smith is interviewed about organizational storytelling. The other links here provide more resources in this area. " ... A dialogue on the subject...

Another Cat
From Wild WebMink

Another Cat

My own cat is almost never this animated.

Students – Spend a week with Turing Laureates at the 2013 Heidelberg Laureate Forum
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Students – Spend a week with Turing Laureates at the 2013 Heidelberg Laureate Forum

ACM has joined forces with the newly created Heidelberg Laureate Forum to bring students together with recipients of the Abel Prize, the ACM A.M. Turing Award,...

Leadership in Science Policy Institute nomination deadline: December 14
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Leadership in Science Policy Institute nomination deadline: December 14

Last year, the Computing Community Consortium and CRA’s Government Affairs Committee held the first Leadership in Science Policy Institute.  A total of 35 participants...

CSTA Launches CSEDWeek With New Student-Created Posters
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CSTA Launches CSEDWeek With New Student-Created Posters

CSTA is pleased to announce the winners of the Faces of Computing poster contest as part of the Computer Science Education Week celebration. The winning posters...

Linked Smartphone Seismometers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linked Smartphone Seismometers

I like the idea of using multiple sensors to drive some sort of decision making system.  Smartphones are an example of a commonly available, widely deployed sensor...

Fractal Nature of Organizations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fractal Nature of Organizations

Nice link through to to a video on fractal organization.  A long time interest of mine that we were able to use for such seemingly unrelated areas like product...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Mounting or Solving Open Problems

Programs not programs src Richard Hamilton is the mathematician who laid out the route that eventually led to the positive solution to the three-dimensional Poincaré...

No Apologies
From Wild WebMink

No Apologies

Sorry is not enough in the days of the tabloids. There’s no way out; they will hound and pursue and compound and imply and demand and decry, treating confession...

IBM Retail Paper.Li
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Retail Paper.Li

I see that one of my posts, on the German clothing manufacturer, has been featured in the IBM Retail Paper.li publication.   I had not seen this aggregation before...

Reinvention
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reinvention

My colleague Sammy Haroon on Core Competency driven reinvention.

Open Data for Smart Cities
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Data for Smart Cities

GreenPlum report that is of interest.  " ... Smart Cities are all about collaboration, sharing and transparency. They need true openness of data. It is not just...

The Neuro Challenge for Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Neuro Challenge for Marketing

Abstract:Contemporary marketing is constantly subject to challenges generated by the evolution of market relations. Promoting the holistic conception in marketing...

Squids on the <i>Economist</i> Cover
From Schneier on Security

Squids on the Economist Cover

Four squids on the cover of this week's Economist represent the four massive (and intrusive) data-driven Internet giants: Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. Interestingly...

Food Network Starts an Analytical Partnership
From The Eponymous Pickle

Food Network Starts an Analytical Partnership

With my food and retail background and interests I found an interesting mention in this AdAge article.  It is rare to see plays regarding the food industry using...

Tesco's Fresh & Easy Headed for Closure?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tesco's Fresh & Easy Headed for Closure?

In Progressive Grocer: " ...   Five years after its widely publicized U.S. debut, British supermarket operator Tesco is embarking on a strategic review of its beleaguered...

Levels of Inventory Optimization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Levels of Inventory Optimization

In SciDigest.  Good point,  graphically delivered.  Inventory optimization analytics is first looked at tactically, but there us usually benefit in taking it to...
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