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The Internet is a product of the post-industrial age
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

The Internet is a product of the post-industrial age

The Internet is on fire with this question: who invented the Internet? A couple of weeks ago, the president of the USA said: Government research created the Internet...

Predictive Analytics in Police Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predictive Analytics in Police Work

An overview.  Saw an IBM presentation on this earlier this year.  All analytics can be used predictively, so the idea is not new.  Simple block crime occurrence...

From Computational Complexity

Six Questions about unnatrual and natural mathematical objects

Today (Monday) I pose some questions. In my next post (Tuesday) I will post the answersthat I know (some I do not). Some questions are a matter of opinionin terms...

Technological Adoption and Economies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Technological Adoption and Economies

How historical technology adoptions have changed global economies.  In HBS Working Knowledge.  This has been known for a king time.  Somewhat counter indicative...

Searchable Map of the Internet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Searchable Map of the Internet

In FlowingData:  A very dense visualization of the Internet today.  A visually intriguing viz, but also an example of  many opportunities missed.  As the article...

The Second Annual Robot Film Festival
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

The Second Annual Robot Film Festival

Earlier this month, another huge crowd of roboticists, artists, and filmakers converged on Manhattan for the second annual Robot Film Festival, a daylong celebration...

Detroit Bomb Threats
From Schneier on Security

Detroit Bomb Threats

There have been a few hoax bomb threats in Detroit recently (Windsor tunnel, US-Canada bridge, Tiger Stadium). The good news is that police learned; during the...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Benford’s Law and Baseball

What distributions follow the knock of opportunity? Ted Hill is a Professor Emeritus in the Mathematics Department at Georgia Tech, and has two other affiliations...

Organs on a Chip
From The Eponymous Pickle

Organs on a Chip

We worked for some time with this kind of bio simulation capability that came from UCSD.  Their BioNome Research Center now appears to be defunct. (Can anyone provide...

Creation Myth and Reality of Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Creation Myth and Reality of Innovation

Fascinating piece on innovation from PARC.  Which remarks on Steve Job's famous visit to PARC labs for a demonstration of the 'windows' concept and mouse pointing...

The Necessity of Algebra
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Necessity of Algebra

In the NYT.  Making the case for eroding quantitative literacy.   Even otherwise bright management is often mystified by simple math. So lets make that even more...

Information Technology is Still Important
From The Eponymous Pickle

Information Technology is Still Important

Surprise, IT is more more important than ever, the recent debate is about who will bring what portions of it to the table, and what are the implications of that...

Games in the Workplace
From The Eponymous Pickle

Games in the Workplace

In Mashable. a number of interesting examples of games in play at work.

iPhone and iPad Photography
From The Eponymous Pickle

iPhone and iPad Photography

In GigaOM:  On advanced uses of the iPhone and iPad.  This leads me to thinking about tablets and smartphones as sensory devices.   How can you provide information...

Innovation Silos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation Silos

A frequent situation in the large organization.   Because different areas are not seen as competent to recognize useful innovations in others.  One answer is to...

OSI Membership In Two Minutes
From Wild WebMink

OSI Membership In Two Minutes

I was approached in the OSI booth at OSCON to explain OSI’s membership categories. That URL again:  opensource.org/join

Friday Squid Blogging: Tentacle Doorstop
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Tentacle Doorstop

Now this is neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

DARPA I2O Director at the Computer History Museum
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

DARPA I2O Director at the Computer History Museum

Dan Kaufman, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Information Innovation Office (I2O), was interviewed on Tuesday evening by New...

<i>Liars and Outliers</i> Summed Up in Two Comic Strips
From Schneier on Security

Liars and Outliers Summed Up in Two Comic Strips

I don't know the context, but these strips sum up my latest book nicely.

Analytics and Decision in Health Care
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics and Decision in Health Care

Tom Davenport on new frontiers in health care via analytics.  I agree, the frontier has arrived in the form of accessible data, sensors and readily available analytics...
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