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About Mobile Data and Analytics Delivered
From The Eponymous Pickle

About Mobile Data and Analytics Delivered

In GigaOM:  It is making us reconsider many aspects of the interaction between people and process.  Further, it should make us think about where the analytics will...

Does time fix all?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Does time fix all?

As an graduate, finding useful references was painful. What the librarians had come up with were terrible time-consuming systems. It took an outsider (Berners-Lee)...

Mozilla and NSF Teaming Up to Build Apps for the Future;Idea, App Challenges Offering $500K in Prizes; Deadline Soon
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Mozilla and NSF Teaming Up to Build Apps for the Future;Idea, App Challenges Offering $500K in Prizes; Deadline Soon

The following is a special contribution to this blog by Will Barkis, Gigabit Developer Evangelist at Mozilla Foundation. As the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)...

Analyzing Voice Emotions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analyzing Voice Emotions

Related to work we did trying to understand how people react to new products.  A form of non conscious, neuromarketing analysis.  But now proposed via a smart phone...

How Open Source Forced Microsoft’s Hand
From Wild WebMink

How Open Source Forced Microsoft’s Hand

Even if you’re not using LibreOffice, you owe it a debt of gratitude because it (and its ancestors) forced Microsoft to interoperate, have a stable file format...

Montessori and CS in K-8
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Montessori and CS in K-8

There has recently been a lot of discussion about improving computer science education and the need to include the elementary and middle school students in the,...

Friday Squid Blogging: Efforts to Film a Live Giant Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Efforts to Film a Live Giant Squid

Japanese researchers are attempting to film the elusive giant squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...

A French-U.S. Collaboration on Computational Neuroscience
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

A French-U.S. Collaboration on Computational Neuroscience

Earlier this week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) announcing a new international collaboration in computational neuroscience...

Principles of Data Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Principles of Data Visualization

In Information Management:  Reasonable thoughts about the topic.  Better this than many of the infographics I have seen that muddle the information in the data...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

The Right Definition

Sometimes definitions are more important than theorems, sometimes Atle Selberg was one of the first two postwar Fields Medalists, awarded in 1950. This partly recognized...

SAP and Intelligent Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

SAP and Intelligent Data

SAP makes plans to turn Big data into intelligence.  Something we all hope to do.  Some new releases from the ERP giant:   "  ... Using its BI market share leadership...

Innovation and Research in China
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation and Research in China

We were involved in early research done in China with retailers and universities in China. Notably with BJ Hualian, who ultimately used some our methods to develop...

From Computational Complexity

Is the Turing Test Still Interesting?

Besides the Turing machine, Alan Turing also developed what we now call the Turing Test in Turing's seminal 1950 AI paper "Computational Machinery and Intelligenc...

$200 for a Fake Security System
From Schneier on Security

$200 for a Fake Security System

This is pretty funny: Moving red laser beams scare away potential intruders Laser beams move along floor and wall 180 degrees Easy to install, 110v comes on automatically...

“On the Edge — The Future of Computing Research”
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

“On the Edge — The Future of Computing Research”

“On the Edge — The Future of Computing Research” was the title of a plenary session at the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) biennial Conference at Snowbird...

My Workshop on Programming With Processing is Postponed
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

My Workshop on Programming With Processing is Postponed

Summer is as summer does.  We didn't get enough registrations for my workshop on learning to program using Processing.  Luckily, this wasn't from lack of interest...

SNCR Publishes the Social Mind
From The Eponymous Pickle

SNCR Publishes the Social Mind

From SNCR, of which I am a senior fellow:Professionals Spend 40% of Time Online Interacting in Peer Communities according to the Society for New Communications report...

Rudyard Kipling on Societal Pressures
From Schneier on Security

Rudyard Kipling on Societal Pressures

In the short story "A Wayside Comedy," published in 1888 in Under the Deodars, Kipling wrote: You must remember, though you will not understand, that all lawsmy...

How Big Data Became so Big
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Big Data Became so Big

In the NYT:  Largely obvious thoughts, but some very good links to a number of sources, including the report called Big Data, Big Impact from the World Economic...

A View of Sector Inventory Performance
From The Eponymous Pickle

A View of Sector Inventory Performance

A very informative piece in SC Digest, that surveys inventory turns by sector.  A must for supply chain data trend understanding.  " ... So, let's take an example...
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