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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
Announcement: Dataviz workshop in Torino, Italy
On 12 to 17 December, the people of Better Nouveau plan Dataviz, an in-depth workshop on the visual representation of large datasets. Better Nouveau is an independent...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Chavdar Botev on Databus: A System for Timeline-Consistent Low-Latency Change Capture
This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conagra Mills Does Analytics
An interesting business analytics example. Note that Conagra is using it for supply chain decisions with their clients: "... ConAgra Mills, a Commercial Foods...
From Apophenia
Debating Privacy in a Networked World for the WSJ
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal posted excerpts from a debate between me, Stewart Baker, Jeff Jarvis, and Chris Soghoian on privacy. In preparation for...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Binary Hand Dance
If you are looking for some inspiration and/or entertainment for you or your students, check out the Vi Hart's Blog. Vi is a "recreational mathemusician" (her...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Modeling News
Brought to my attention. The Monthly Newsletter for Healthcare Professionals Involved with Predictive Modeling. " .... Featuring articles, news, key data, technology...
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Business Intelligence Predictions
Boris Evelson provides some interesting business intelligence predictions for 2012. Including: " ... More BI will move into the hands of end users. IT will learn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's John Smale Passing
I worked with Mr. Smale as part of the IT Innovation Research team: ... John G. Smale, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Procter & Gamble, passed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows Phones
I was briefly involved with a proposal for a Windows phone App that addressed retail analysis. So it is interesting to see it has now, in its first anniversary...
From Putting People First
Tablets, sensors, foot boards and other gadgets for (French) seniors
As the first baby boomers turn 65 this year, high-tech is gradually making its way into the lives
From Putting People First
The invisibility of ethnography
Tricia Wang reflects on the fact that ethnographic work is often invisible. One way to overcome this, she argues, is for ethnographers to find ways to visualize...
From Putting People First
Social computing
The Interaction-Design.org Foundation is a labour of love founded by Mads Soegaard in 2002, and in 2010, his wife, Rikke Dam, joined the project (and their exotic...
From Putting People First
Out with the old, in with the new: a conversation with Don Norman & Jon Kolko
Richard Anderson has interviewed many people on stage, but, he says, the best of these, for multiple reasons (some very personal), might have been the most recent...
From Putting People First
Enabling codesign
The term co-design refers to a philosophical and political approach to design best applied throughout the design life cycle. Codesign builds on the methods and...
From Putting People First
Sketchnotes of Ezio Manzini at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
This past Monday evening, on an unseasonably warm night in Chicago, sustainability expert Ezio Manzini gave a thought-provoking lecture at the School of the Art...
From Putting People First
On Culture and Interaction Design: an interview with Genevieve Bell
Recently Dianna Miller had a chance to talk to Genevieve Bell, anthropologist and researcher, and the director of Intel Corporation
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Delicacy of Anonymity Online
How services like Google Analytics make it hard to be anonymous online. Anonymity can be just a matter of choice, or even a life or death thing. Also some suggestions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why is Angry Birds Compelling?
Understanding why a particular game like Angty Birds is so compelling. And how the aspects of the game might be repeated. " ... carefully scripted expansion...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Khalid Al-Kofahi on Combining Advanced Search Technology and Human Expertise in Legal Research
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From The Eponymous Pickle