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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data not a Holy Grail
Messy, says an article in Forbes. The dangers to privacy, and the buy-in to magical powers to solve problems. Like any new tool, be cautious about the hype, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Prediction and Text
In GigaOM Turing prediction engines towards text. The integration of text and numeric analytcs is rare. " ... Machine learning startup BigML now supports...
From Putting People First
New qualitative research report on tablet use in UK schools
Tablets for Schools, a UK campaign organisation that seeks to “prove the categorical case of tablets in schools”, has just published its second qualitative research...
From Computational Complexity
Who controls what is taught- the dept or the students?
There is a debate about the questions: To what extent do we give them what they NEED? what they WANT? These questions permeate many other discussions of education...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS S&T Policy Fellowships: A Call for “Big Data & Analytics” Experts
The following is a special contribution to the CCC blog by Peter Z. Revesz, 2012-14 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense....
From Schneier on Security
Fingerprinting Burner Phones
In one of the documents recently released by the NSA as a result of an EFF lawsuit, there's discussion of a specific capability of a call records database to identify...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 October 2013
Last week was Leif Erikson Day. Today in the US we celebrate some Italian guy who came to North America later. So I have no school. I’ll take it. A lot of stuff...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supermarket Apps Working
I had a conversation with someone a few weeks ago about the difference in engagement quality between loyalty cards and store smartphone apps. We also discussed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Identifying Your Phone in Seconds
In SF Gate: Their accelerometer identifies smartphones in seconds. Novel approach, privacy implications? "... The accelerometer enables, among other things,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ohio DOE Education Advisory Panel
Recently joined the Ohio DOE Education Advisory Panel. Which introduced me to the executive network of MBA Research. A " .... Not-for-profit, research-based support...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco and the Internet of Everything
Cisco moves forward again. And a link to their study. " ... Mobile? Wearables? Small change. For several years, Cisco has been thinking bigger, when the Internet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think
Book newly on the list of things to read: Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, and Kenneth Cukier...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Creating Jobs and Growth
In GigaOM: A favorite topic of mine since our own experimentation with RFID linking to the net a decade plus ago. There will be many efficiency, transparency...
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Google Changes the Ad Rules
Google is changing its advertising rules. Here is a useful summary. It has caused some considerable criticism: " .... Google has altered its Terms of Service...
From Geeking with Greg
I was wrong on Netflix
I was wrong on Netflix. A few years ago, I saw their pricing changes (which overpriced DVD rentals) and streaming catalog changes (switching to only buying whatever...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Hiring practices
In Bloomberg, games in hiring and other kinds of advanced talent matching:" ... A handful of technology companies from Knack.it Corp. to Evolv Inc. are doing just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Legal Issues for Gamification
Legal issues for gamification. " ... Ames Gatto Explains Gamblification at GSummit SF 2013 ... What are some of the legal repercussions in dealing with real...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau and R
Have been a user of the Tableau Software visualization since its emergence from Stanford. It is good to see in the 8.1 Beta they are including links to R. In...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and NASA use Quantum
Another example of the use of Quantum computing. And the obvious application to big Data where speed and fast crunching capability may the best application. Includes...
From Schneier on Security