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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 Putting People First
Book: The App Generation
The App Generation How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World Howard Gardner and Katie Davis Yale University Press October...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transferring online Book Notes to Twitter
Here experimenting with taking a highlighted portion of a book in kindle and transferring the highlights and notes to a twitter stream, sharing my comments and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategy Arts
A couple of other pieces from Mckinsey on Strategy: On mastering its building blocks, an the art of strategy. In the enterprise strategic planning always seemed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Launching a Data MOOC
Google on Launching an Analytics MOOC and Taking Data-Driven Actions " ... Analytics. It could be the deepest, darkest mystery in your organization, served up by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Data Science Workflow
Phillip Guo on Data Science Workflow: Well worth examining: " ... Engineering the Success of Software Development I now realize that data scientists are oneThis...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What caught my attention lately: Jeff Bezos on what innovators need: "A willingness to fail. A willingness to be misunderstood. And maintaining a childlike wonder...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 8-Foot Giant Squid Pillow
Make your own 8-foot giant squid pillow. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
A Template for Reporting Government Surveillance News Stories
This is from 2006 -- I blogged it here -- but it's even more true today. Under a top secret program initiated by the Bush Administration after the Sept. 11 attacks...
From Schneier on Security
Reading Group at Harvard Law School
In Spring Semester, I'm running a reading group -- which seems to be a formal variant of a study group -- at Harvard Law School on "Security, Power, and the Internet...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Internet Policy Task Force Seeks Public Comments on “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy” Report
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force invites public comments on its report, “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Debugging Student Code
I confess that I love to debug code. I think I’d rather fix broken code and remove bugs than write original code from scratch. All that set up and stuff is tedious...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Software Partnership Meeting on Prior Art Searching Techniques and Tools on December 5, 2013
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will hold the next Software Partnership meting on December 5, 2013, from 1-4:30 pm ET at its headquarters in Alexandria...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Infinite storage: we are almost there…
Two years ago, I wrote a blog post called What is infinite storage? The blog post was a response to a Physics professor and colleague of mine who objected to my...
From Computational Complexity
Andrzej Mostowski (1913-1975)
Andrzej Mostowski was born 100 years ago today. While Mostowski worked in many areas of logic, including early fundamental work on model theory, for our readers...
From Schneier on Security
Close-In Surveillance Using Your Phone's Wi-Fi
This article talks about applications in retail, but the possibilities are endless. Every smartphone these days comes equipped with a WiFi card. When the cardpick...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Plus
For the purposes of an experiment, some posts of my blog are now being echoed into Google+ here: http://www.google.com/+FranzDill Feel free to link with me there...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Eavesdropping on Google and Yahoo Networks
The Washington Post reported that the NSA is eavesdropping on the Google and Yahoo private networks -- the code name for the program is MUSCULAR. I may write more...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Get Involved in Hour of Code 2013
Last week, Code.Org and others announced the Hour of Code to the world. Now backed by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, LinkedIn, Mark Zuckerberg, CSTA, the College...
From The Eponymous Pickle
App Stores for the Defense Enterprise
Enterprises are looking for ways to ride the ease of use and simplicity of task partitioning and integration in App stores. Even the US Department of Defense. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle