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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Are you a Linchpin or a Cog in the Machine?
Always interested in what makes innovative organizations work. Josh Bernoff of Forrester in the GroundSwell blog reviews and outlines Seth Godin's new book, forthcoming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fundamental Barriers to Sales
Dave Knox does an excellent job talking about the fundamentals to sales success. We dealt with it every day in the enterprise, he makes a good point about the inherent...
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research could make Google more relevant in China
Ethnographer Tricia Wang wrote an excellent and long comment on why Google is having troubles in China: While unfortunate that Google.CN may be shutting down, my...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Military Social Networking
In Gigaom, an article on MilBook a Facebook style social networking site for the US military, launched this past October. Should be some learning here, especially...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
When Good Students Have Bad Habits
"It never hurts to have a supporting argument for something people are already doing." That came from Howard Resnikoff in a workshop 25 years ago, and I had sense...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
When Good Students Have Bad Habits
"It never hurts to have a supporting argument for something people are already doing." That came from Howard Resnikoff in a workshop 25 years ago, and I had sense...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are Apps the Best Model?
Recently had a conversation with a colleague about writing an App for the IPhone for a supply chain problem. We were struck by the fact that it would have to be...
From Schneier on Security
Transport Canada on its New Security Regulations
Okay, it's really the Rick Mercer Report.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Media Strategies in Retail
Good article in StoreFrontBacktalk. Read the whole thing, allows you to nicely think about these multiple strategies. ' ... The mobile retail world has now neatly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pervasive Business Intelligence
How pervasive is Business Intelligence (BI)? I pushed it for a dozen years in the enterprise. It took a big uptick with the pervasiveness of the Web. Much lip service...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Networking Privacy
E-Commerce Times has a good article on the dangers of exposing your personal information through social networking sites. There are obvious dangers and a number...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
So are there or are there not jobs in CS and IT
The other day in my interesting links post I included links to several articles/blog posts. One article was titled - IT hiring increases last month despite broader...
From Schneier on Security
German TV on the Failure of Full-Body Scanners
The video is worth watching, even if you don't speak German. The scanner caught a subject's cell phone and Swiss Army knife -- and the microphone he was wearing...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Supports Bill to Expand FCC Technical Capacity
USACM has sent Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) a letter of support for her bill to expand the technical advising capacity of the Federal Communications Commission...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Earthquake Data Visualized
Using Tableau dashboards: 'The Pan American Health Organization published an interactive dashboard showing the location of last week
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing Food
In-store food manufacture has been mentioned here a number of times. Here is another related research example, the MIT Cornucopia Food Printer Project, recently...
From Putting People First
Front book vs back book pricing: a service design challenge
Nick Marsh of EMC Conchango reflects on the conundrum of ‘front book’ vs ‘back book’ pricing, and the implications for service design. “This is a great example...
From Putting People First