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  • Back home

    Back home

    Pictures from a short hike in Mill Creek Park last Sunday. Lanterman’s Mill – Youngstown, Ohio

  • Link: The Math Wizards Who Rule Murky World of Programmatic Buying | Digital – Advertising Age

    Link: The Math Wizards Who Rule Murky World of Programmatic Buying | Digital – Advertising Age

    The future of advertising — one where terms like “automation” and “big data” are more than jargon sprinkled into PowerPoints — may be in the hands of 20-somethings like Mr. Banilevi. Just 23 years old, the Northwestern economics graduate uses eight software programs to buy millions of digital ads each…

  • Link: The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain | Ramez Naam

    Link: The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain | Ramez Naam

    The final frontier of digital technology is integrating into your own brain. DARPA wants to go there. Scientists want to go there. Entrepreneurs want to go there. And increasingly, it looks like it’s possible. You’ve probably read bits and pieces about brain implants and prostheses. Let me give you the big…

  • The Icy Mountains of Pluto | NASA

    Congratulations to NASA on the success of the New Horizons’ Mission! New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body. The mountains likely formed no more…

  • Link: “An era of unbounded malignant complexity”

    O’Reilly interviews Mickey McManus, a researcher at Autodesk, about the extreme complexity that IoT will unleash.  It’s definitely worth fifteen minutes of your day to listen to this:   credit : O’Reilly Radar

  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the Comic-Con reel

    High, the bar is being set by J.J. Abrams… …disappoint he better not

  • A decent list of UX questions for a unified customer experience

    I’m not a huge fan of the term ‘Omni-channel,’ but the core concepts in the post below is valid – the burden of figuring out the mode of interaction shouldn’t fall on customers.  Companies must craft a user experience that provides for the highest quality interactions, at every touchpoint: But…

  • Why email sucks 

    We may despise our inboxes (and 99% of what’s in them), but we’re neurochemically compelled to make sure that there isn’t something potentially important or pleasurable lurking in there this time. And then five minutes from now. And then again. And again. “The internal stimulus is the one that gets…

  • Flying over the ‘burgh

    I took this pic early on June 12, 2016 – final approach into PIT…