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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is programming as cool as basketball?
Some of the best job prospects are in the software industry. Programming as a career has several benefits worth considering: though not stellar, the pay can be...
From My Biased Coin
Lesson of the Day
Saturday I took two of my daughters to see a musical at Harvard. Amazingly, in the small theater, we were in front of a pair of students who seemed intent on talking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TDWI Conference Live
Following is interesting, there are a number of ways to connect to it without being there. Nice Oppurtunity. I am following.TDWI World Conference Videos,Live...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Revolution
Imagine a world without shops or factoriesWhen you are in the middle of a torrent of change, innovation eclipsing innovation, it can be hard to know what is passing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Mind Control in Medicine, Manufacturing.
In KurzweilAI: Mind control of systems and devices. . It has been around for a long time. With various levels of imprecision. But it is now moving quickly and...
From Schneier on Security
Bitcoin Explanation
This is the best explanation of the Bitcoin protocol that I have read.
From Computational Complexity
Inventions are Non-Communative: Amarzon vs Amarzon
(Tal Rabin, Shubhangi Saraf and Lisa Zhang asked me to remind you to publicize this: the bi-annual Women in theory (WIT workshop), NYC, May 28-30, 2014. Apps due...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Are Stereotypes Keeping Women Away From Science?
I received a link to the following infographic in honour of this week's Computer Science Education Week. It's about women in STEM in general, but has some interesting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science Education Week is Here and the President is Getting the Word Out!
Today, December 9, 2013, is Grace Murray Hopper’s Birthday (she would be 107 years old) and the beginning of Computer Science Education Week. These events are...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Day of Trustworthiness: Festschrift for Fred Schneider
On December 5, 2013, the computer science department at Cornell University, along with Google and Microsoft, sponsored the Fred B. Schneider Symposium on Trustworthiness...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping Pattern Tracking
In the WSJ: (May require registration) An area we experimented with for some time. Determining shopper behavior. Not necessarily tracking personal information...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 December 2013
Today is Grace Hopper’s birthday. An amazing woman I was fortunate enough to meet while in college and hear speak several times during my career. It’s also part...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Let's Hope Computer Science Education Week is an Impetus for Congress to Act
Editor's Note: One CSTA helped to launch CSEdWeek in 2009, our hope was that it would grow into an annual campaign that attracted partners and supporters from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Software Reports
Tableau reports that Tableau is tops in business intelligence. I have used them since nearly their beginning, and I agree they are very good. But they do have...
From Apophenia
how “context collapse” was coined: my recollection
Various academic folks keep writing to me asking me if I coined “context collapse” and so I went back in my record to try to figure it out. I feel the need to offer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Paper
A new paper.li of interest: Neurmarketing by Daniel Ladieu. Neuromarketing and associated interest in its hype cycle has increased sharply of late. Includes some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Marketing Turns to Storytelling
A recent interest through a startup. So what can be done to create a story? Contructing ideal template and storyboards? Modern advertising has always been...
From Putting People First
Robert Fabricant on scaling your UX strategy
Leading businesses like Google are exploring scalable strategies that make UX relevant to engineers and MBAs across their organizations. Robert Fabricant has posted...
From Putting People First
Britain’s Ministry of Nudges
The title of this New York Times article sounds like a Monty Python sketch (intentionally, I guess). But the article is luckily quite a lot more serious, exploring...
From The Eponymous Pickle