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Book: Meta Products – Building the Internet of Things
From Putting People First

Book: Meta Products – Building the Internet of Things

Meta Products Meaningful Design For Our Connected World by Wimer Hazenberg and Menno Huisman BIS Publishers, 160 pages 2012 Meta Products discusses the rise of...

Designing products for value
From Putting People First

Designing products for value

By encouraging more focused collaboration among multiple functional groups (notably marketing and sales, operations, engineering/R&D, and procurement), these leaders...

Google and the UX challenge of augmented reality
From Putting People First

Google and the UX challenge of augmented reality

The new Google FieldTrip app probes the question: What digital information do you want to see overlaid on the physical world? A challenge that Bruce Sterling describes...

Tesco Invests in Global e-Comerce
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tesco Invests in Global e-Comerce

Always impressed with Tesco's  retail technology savvy, so this is worth following:With 6,234 stores in 13 countries and annual sales of 72 billion pounds ($116...

Detecting Fake Hurricane Photographs
From Schneier on Security

Detecting Fake Hurricane Photographs

A short tutorial here. Actually, it's good advice even if there weren't a hurricane.

Gamification in Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamification in Business

On Gamification in Business.  Have been involved in conceptualizing and delivering several of the these projects.  None were a complete success.  But the metaphor...

Protecting (and Collecting) the DNA of World Leaders
From Schneier on Security

Protecting (and Collecting) the DNA of World Leaders

There's a lot of hype and hyperbole in this story, but here's the interesting bit: According to Ronald Kessler, the author of the 2009 book In the President’s,...

Is reading memory faster than writing on a PC?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Is reading memory faster than writing on a PC?

For human beings, reading is much faster than writing. The same is often true for computers: adding a record to a database may take an order of magnitude longer...

From Computational Complexity

Fall Jobs Post

Time again for the annual fall jobs post. As always the best places to look for academic CS positions are the job sites at the CRA and the ACM. Also check out the...

Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story (from Wired)
From Apophenia

Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story (from Wired)

I wrote the following piece for Wired. I’m keeping it here for posterity, but check out the comments over on Wired. Sitting U.S. President Ford was visiting San...

Tips vs Bribes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tips vs Bribes

An HBS Working knowledge piece on Tips vs bribes.  Which reminds me of early training in this area.  always saw the training as very well thought out, but always...

Sony Playstation 3 Master Key Leaked
From Schneier on Security

Sony Playstation 3 Master Key Leaked

Oops.

Triangulation And Butter
From Wild WebMink

Triangulation And Butter

Why should we care about protecting small items of personal data, such as our date of birth, parents’ names, post code and so on? Why does it matter when we’re...

Interesting Links 29 October 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 29 October 2012

First it was an earthquake and now they are talking about a hurricane hitting much of the east coast. Some places have been hit hard already. Computers are keyCoder...

Testing Flavors Online
From The Eponymous Pickle

Testing Flavors Online

Testing flavors online .. Not quite what it seems reading the headline.  Reminds me of our own digital scent work.   True virtualization of non-sight sensory  interaction...

Big Data Infrastructure
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Infrastructure

Via Gib Bassett  On the emerging big data ecosystem.   An interesting way to think about it  ... because ecosystem implies  active and important interaction.  ...

Crimson Series on the Ad Board
From My Biased Coin

Crimson Series on the Ad Board

The Harvard Crimson just finished a four-part series looking at the Harvard Ad Board since the reforms a couple of years ago.  I must admit I didn't find the articles...

Living No Longer Easy
From Wild WebMink

Living No Longer Easy

Summer Time has ended in Europe. That means no more fish jumpin’, daddy is definitely not rich and it would not be politic to comment on mamma. In addition, meeting...

Executive Information Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Executive Information Systems

We brought in Michael Scott Morton emeritus prof at MIT, to help us start the process of  EIS.  I was reminded of this by colleague Michael F Doherty. Will follow...

CDB: Not Dead Yet
From Wild WebMink

CDB: Not Dead Yet

This zombie bill no politician seems able to kill is a pandora's box that will lead to a public panopticon.
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