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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Putting People First
After ethnography, and other papers by Iota Partners
Iota Partners is a new Chicago-based venture of Rick Robinson and John Cain (with whom Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels once worked at Sapient) that deals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Centricity
We worked with Professor Peter Fader of Wharton in the enterprise. His book on Customer centricity essentials is now out in its second edition. " ... Despite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Charmin App Improved
Charmin App Updated: " ... Procter & Gamble brand Charmin has introduced the SitOrSquat: Restroom Finder application for mobile devices, which lets users rate public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Data Breadth of the Supply Chain
Today I gave an invited talk "End-to-End Supply Chain: Innovation, Design and Development" at the University of Cincinnati. I emphasized the integration of Big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving a Data Science Problem
Vincent Granville on ways to solve a data science problem. An interesting case study that uses a number of common analytic methods. Well described: " .... Here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS and Teradata
On SAS and Teradata joining forces. More appliances: " ... Over the years SAS has worked with many data warehousing vendors. In particular, in the recent past...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Databases
A recent piece by Mark Montgomery led me to Philip Howard in Bloor on Graph Databases. An introduction. Which led me to the WP article on the same. Obvious application...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reviewing the Buying Brain
An interesting review of The Buying Brain. Very positive. Overdone I think, there are aspects of neuromarketing methods that although useful in conjunction with...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Scalp Massager
Cheap! As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Python vs. Processing as a First Language
When I asked my social networks what they thought was the best language to learn to program with, most said Python. I've always heard great things about this as...
From My Biased Coin
That Time of Year : Annual NSF Reports
I received my notice a few weeks back that it's time to fill out my annual grant reports for NSF.I'd like to complain about it; it's a pretty boring process, and...
From Wild WebMink
What Next After GPL and Apache?
My article on InfoWorld today looks at the arc of software licensing trends and predicts commercial open source will eventually swing back to the centre and favour...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Funding Research Infrastructure for the CISE Community
At last week’s meeting of the Advisory Committee (AC) for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering...
From Schneier on Security
Kip Hawley Reviews Liars and Outliers
In his blog: I think the most important security issues going forward center around identity and trust. Before knowing I would soon encounter Bruce again in the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Be What
Grace Hopper used to tell her audiences that if they ever used
From Wild WebMink
UK Open Consultation Update
The final round-table for the government’s Open Standards Consultation is now open for booking – consider attending as much is at stake for UK ICT procurement....
From The Noisy Channel
Data Science at LinkedIn: My Team
Lots of people ask me what it’s like to be a data scientist at LinkedIn. The short answer: it’s awesome. Folks like Pete Skomoroch
From My Biased Coin
A Little Truly Offensive Bragging (On Behalf of Harvard CS)
So which US school was the only one in the top ten for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest this year?No, not MIT, Princeton, or Carnegie Mellon...
From The Eponymous Pickle