The scale of the design challenge in creating a new personal data ecosystem started to emerge at a first Mydex-Design Council workshop in London earlier this month. Designers, officials, and experts from business and NGOs met at the UK Design Council i…
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Email Viewing Habits: Where Do You Read Your Email? [Infographic]
17 September 2011 by
Litmus, a company that tracks and tests email campaigns has taken a close look at where people are viewing their email. The stats, at least according to Litmus, provide some interesting insights into email habits. Outlook is still king, Webmail is in s…
Six Provocations for Big Data
14 September 2011 by
The era of “Big Data” has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and many others are clamoring for access to the massive quantities of information produced by and …
Gender Matters in CS & Tech & The World
12 September 2011 by
I don’t need to say much. This graphic from the New York Times explains it simply Computer Science and Engineering are getting worse for women and have been for 10 years. These industries are where law and medicine were in the 50’s and 60’s. I sha…