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Congrads to new ACM fellows
From Computational Complexity

Congrads to new ACM fellows

Congrads to ALL of the ACM Fellows which were annouced here.   There are several theorists among them. I could try to list them or count them; however, the term...

How Advertising Works
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Advertising Works

From Steve Genco of Lucid Systems: ' .... Derren Brown is a British

A Report on the Discovery and Innovation in Health IT Workshop
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

A Report on the Discovery and Innovation in Health IT Workshop

The CCC co-sponsored and co-organized the Discovery and Innovation in Health IT Workshop in San Francisco on October 29 and 30, 2009 (http://www.cra.org/ccc/healthit...

17x17: Comments on your comments
From Computational Complexity

17x17: Comments on your comments

One of the comments on my last post, the 17x17 post, inquired if I am also interested in the other unknown grids (17x18, 18x18, 21x10, 21x11, 21x12, 22x10). I AM...

Smart tools to reduce our impact on the environment
From Putting People First

Smart tools to reduce our impact on the environment

The latest issue of UPA’s UX Magazine is devoted to sustainable design, and one of the articles is by Experientia. In their contribution, Experientia collaborators...

Executive Decisions: Goals and Metrics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Executive Decisions: Goals and Metrics

In InformationWeek, good article and case study:" ... The terms "scorecard" and "dashboard" are often used interchangeably, but there's an important distinction...

Global Innovation Marches on
From The Eponymous Pickle

Global Innovation Marches on

Lots of interesting details in this report:Booz & Company's 2009 edition of the Global Innovation 1000 report finds large R&D spenders are keeping the pace when...

The Security Implications of Windows Volume Shadow Copy
From Schneier on Security

The Security Implications of Windows Volume Shadow Copy

It can be impossible to securely delete a file: What are the security implications of Volume Shadow Copy? Suppose you decide to protect one of your documents...

Procter Anthropologist Finds Worldwide Traits
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter Anthropologist Finds Worldwide Traits

An article in the Cincinnati Enquirer on the work of Andrew Manning, P&G anthropologist. P&G finds worldwide consumers share traits.

Suggesting Alternative Spending
From The Eponymous Pickle

Suggesting Alternative Spending

Not surprising, but some ot the details are interesting:Suggesting Alternative Ways to Spend Affects Consumers' Purchase Decisions ' ... It

Computer Science in a Conceptual Age
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computer Science in a Conceptual Age

Intriguing piece in CACM on how the game industry is requiring more skilled programmers that in the past would have gone to industrial research labs. I would also...

Fingerprinting RFID Chips
From Schneier on Security

Fingerprinting RFID Chips

This research centers on looking at the radio characteristics of individual RFID chips and creating a "fingerprint." It makes sense; fingerprinting individual...

Our misguided focus on brand and user experience
From Putting People First

Our misguided focus on brand and user experience

If there is a future for designers and marketers in big business, it lies not in brand, nor in

From Computational Complexity

Who Pays for Trips?

If Professor Alice at Faber College visits Dr. Bob at the University of Southern North Dakota, who should cover Alice's expenses? It depends on who does the asking...

Discovering Patterns in Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Discovering Patterns in Data

Blog discovered: Neoformix: Discovering and Illustrating patterns in Data. Some interesting visualization examples, including most recently, exploring the 9/11...

Four key principles of mobile user experience design
From Putting People First

Four key principles of mobile user experience design

In a long article on Boxes and Arrows, Dakota Reese Brown suggests an alternative view of the mobile space based on principles rather than isolated tactics. “Prior...

IDEA 2009: Social and experience design
From Putting People First

IDEA 2009: Social and experience design

The IDEA Conference took place in Toronto on September 15-16, with a focus on social experience design. Boxes and Arrows, in collaboration with the IA Institute...

Designing the online shopping experience
From Putting People First

Designing the online shopping experience

Two articles in UX Magazine look at ways of improving the retail user experience online: Mind the gap Which types of brands have the greatest opportunity to improve...

Cyberwarfare Policy
From Schneier on Security

Cyberwarfare Policy

National Journal has an excellent article on cyberwar policy. I agree with the author's comments on The Atlantic blog: Would the United States ever use a morereport...

Unitasking Rampant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unitasking Rampant

Do we need the twitterpeek?. A unitasking individual piece of hardware? I agree with BusinessWeek it's a case where less is less.
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