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Keeping Crucial Knowledge
From The Eponymous Pickle

Keeping Crucial Knowledge

How do you keep crucial knowledge from leaving?  You organize it in a useful and easily understood way.  I worked on this problem for years in the enterprise and...

Predictive Model Factory
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predictive Model Factory

New interesting thoughts from the SASCom Blog.   " ... For the analytical expert this is a promising direction as well. Rather than spending large parts of the...

Enjoying Grace Hopper 2011 From Afar
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Enjoying Grace Hopper 2011 From Afar

I've attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) every year since 2008, gradually increasing my participation from blogging to being on aaggregated...

Recorded Future Looking Forward
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recorded Future Looking Forward

I just had the opportunity in preparation for some talks and predictive analytics work to look once again at the 'temporal search engine'  Recorded Future.  Happy...

From Computational Complexity

My response to the Gasarch P vs NP poll

A while back GASARCH solicited responses to a P vs NP poll and gave Oct 31 as the deadline. Now that the deadline is passed I post my answers. Does P=NP? IIf...

Practical not Gimmick Bots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Practical not Gimmick Bots

The CEO of iRobot, Colin Angle,   is questioned about the future of robotics.  I agree there has been too much gimmickry delivered.  Yet even gimmickry delivers...

WalMart.com Test Stores
From The Eponymous Pickle

WalMart.com Test Stores

Had not heard of this in particular.  We also experimented with small experimental stores in Malls and college towns, among other places. Good places to collect...

ARF Draft Neurostandards Paper
From The Eponymous Pickle

ARF Draft Neurostandards Paper

Sand Research passes this along:   Advertising Research Foundation Releases Draft Neurostandards White Paper.  "deep understanding - not available through traditional...

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Following on the heels of yesterday’s announcement of the

Commentary on Strong Passwords
From Schneier on Security

Commentary on Strong Passwords

It turns out that "2bon2btitq" is not a strong password.

CAEC: First Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day
From My Biased Coin

CAEC: First Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day

Giorgos suggested I remind people about CAEC, which will be next week (November 18).Still time to sign up and register.Here's the link.

A Look at Heuristics
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Look at Heuristics

A piece in Vanity Fair.  Contrary to what they say in the article and imply in the embedded quiz, heuristics are not necessarily wrong.  They are rules of thumb...

What Does Google Know About You?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Does Google Know About You?

Always an interesting subject.   You can infer much from the ads you see.  ReadwriteWeb discusses the depth and breadth of it.

McKinsey on Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

McKinsey on Big Data

An extensive and thoughtful article:" ... Over time, we believe big data may well become a new type of corporate asset that will cut across business units and function...

Reengineering the Business with Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reengineering the Business with Analytics

Some useful thoughts from the SASCom Blog.  Analytics can be applied to effectively change enterprise process.

NSF Unveils Cross-Cutting Smart Health & Wellbeing Program
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Unveils Cross-Cutting Smart Health & Wellbeing Program

The

Engineering a 10,000 Year Clock
From The Eponymous Pickle

Engineering a 10,000 Year Clock

In IEEE Spectrum:  Was exposed to this project when it was started by Danny Hillis and Stewart Brand in 1996.  The most forward look project I have ever seen.  According...

First Person:
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

First Person:

On Monday, the

Transforming behaviour change
From Putting People First

Transforming behaviour change

The RSA’s latest report, Transforming Behaviour Change: Beyond Nudge and Neuromania, argues for a more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between our...

Craftmanship
From Putting People First

Craftmanship

John Kolko reflects on design education and the importance of craftmanship in an article for Interactions Magazine. “Based on my experience reviewing portfolios...
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