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Big Company IT at NRF
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Company IT at NRF

Storefrontbacktalk reports on a number of big company IT leaders at NRF and their innovation views.

It's a Great Day for CS!
From Computer Science Teachers Association

It's a Great Day for CS!

Ever since Computer Science Education Week, I couldn't help but notice all the positive signs that have come through my email about what a great time it is to teach...

Packing Intelligence in a Tweet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Packing Intelligence in a Tweet

James Kobielus looking at the business intelligence value of Twitter. I still see Twitter as an alert leading to more information. Sometimes all of the intelligence...

From Computational Complexity

Should CCC2012 be at the North Pole?

The last few posts on ICS in China have lead to off-topic (though maybe they were not off topic) comments on whether we should have conferences in countries who...

Privacy Violations by Facebook Employees
From Schneier on Security

Privacy Violations by Facebook Employees

I don't know if this is real, but it seems perfectly reasonable that all of Facebook is stored in a huge database that someone with the proper permissions can access...

Microsoft at TCEA
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Microsoft at TCEA

In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading down to Austin Texas for the annual TCEA conference. This is one of the biggest and best (we are talking Texas after all) educational...

Analytics for Humanitarian Logistics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics for Humanitarian Logistics

Just added to Analytics Magazine, a short article and podcast on the use of logistics analytics in the Haiti earthquake. Linked to the Center for Humanitarian Logistics...

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 18
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 18

January 20 Hearing: The House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on the reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act, taking testimony from business...

From Putting People First

Interesting Google Blog article on how user research dramatically improved driving directions on Google Maps India. The research was based on the fact that street...

Eavesdropping in the Former Soviet Union
From Schneier on Security

Eavesdropping in the Former Soviet Union

Interesting story: The phone's ringer is a pretty simple thing: there's a coil, a magnet and a hammer controlled by the magnet that hits the gongs when there is...

Book: Pervasive Information Architecture
From Putting People First

Book: Pervasive Information Architecture

Pervasive Information Architecture – Designing information space in ubiquitous ecologies is a book being written by Andrea Resmini and Luca Rosati for Morgan Kaufmann...

Whose Voice do you Hear? Gender Issues and Success
From Apophenia

Whose Voice do you Hear? Gender Issues and Success

Growing up, I loved to debate. With anyone. My debating tone used to drive my mother batty because she thought I was yelling at her. Exasperated, I would often...

From Kobe to Haiti
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

From Kobe to Haiti

Today, January 17th, is the anniversary of the 1995 Kobe, Japan, earthquake which killed over 6,000 people. I am in Japan, ironically, accepting the Motohiro Kisoi...

Brand Loyalty and Brand
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brand Loyalty and Brand

Walter Riker, colleague at Procter, writes in Curious Voyager about brand loyalty being killed by the brand.

Making Food While You Watch
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Food While You Watch

Laurence Hayward, of the Venture Lab sends along a report from their newsletter about a number of new ideas that manufacture fresh food concepts in stores while...

Overzealous Spam Filter Found
From The Eponymous Pickle

Overzealous Spam Filter Found

I just noticed that the blog spam filter has been classifying too many messages as spam and that several useful comments had been blocked. I approved the comments...

Procter Underutilizes Scale
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter Underutilizes Scale

AdAge interview with ' ... Bob McDonald, CEO of Procter & Gamble, said the size of the company is not a disadvantage, as many analysts believe. "Size doesn't matter...

Real Time Search Is Personal
From The Noisy Channel

Real Time Search Is Personal

The other day, I promised in a comment thread that I’d write about what I see as real use cases for real-time search. As it happens, I’m experiencing one right...

Security vs. Sustainability in Building Construction
From Schneier on Security

Security vs. Sustainability in Building Construction

Interesting: Any facility executive involved in the design of a new building would agree that security is one important goal for the new facility. These days,...

Google vs. China
From Schneier on Security

Google vs. China

I'm not sure what I can add to this: politically motivated attacks against Gmail from China. I've previously written about hacking from China. Shishir Nagaraja...
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