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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 and IBM
Not unexpected view and direction by IBM. Riding the hype wave, with their own considerable analytics resources. Those put together can provide a formidable capability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Buying KXEN
SAP buys a fairly well known predictive analytics company, KXEN. Have followed SAP in the past with its other related acquisitions, like Khimetrics in 2005. ...
From Schneier on Security
New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services
The Brazilian television show "Fantastico" has exposed an NSA training presentation that discusses how the agency runs man-in-the-middle attacks on the Internet...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Are People Better At (Then Computers)
I love xkcd. It’s probably the nerdiest comic strip around. Recently the following strip appeared. I think that people are still better at creating comic strips...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Remembering Douglas Engelbart
Ted Talks on his visionary work." ... One of the pioneers of the Internet and graphic user interfaces, Engelbart is perhaps best known for inventing the computer...
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The Influence of Showrooming
Lots of fears regarding the influence of 'showrooming' in driving place of purchase ..." ... But a study released Thursday from Columbia Business School and loyalty...
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Macy's Using Data and Showing Restraint
From the D2 Conference in Cincinnati via AdAdge: " ... Macy's sees plenty of value in data-driven marketing and believes consumers should hear more from marketers...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Teacher Teach Yourself
How teaching helps you understand proofs Stanislav Žák is a theorist who has made important contributions to complexity theory. He was at the Institute for Computation...
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Tableau 8 Guide
Recently released: Tableau 8: The Official Guide by George Peck I am in the midst of a project that specifies this, and searched for several fairly obscure things...
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Instant Entrepreneurship
From the Front End of Innovation: Is Instant Entrepreneurship the future? More importantly, what precisely is it? Was the first I head of it:Interview with ...
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Gmail Visualization Tool
An visual analysis of Gmail as metadata using Immersion from MIT. Have take a quick look at this, and as the article suggests, more art than useful visual. But...
From Schneier on Security
Did I Actually Say That?
I'm quoted (also here) as using this analogy to explain how IT companies will be damaged by the news that they've been collaborating with the NSA: "How would it...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
To succeed, adopt the post-industrial view
From time to time, students ask me wether such degree or certificate in computer science will help them get a good job. There is no shortage of studies showing...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Voice Moving to E-Distribution
Like many non-profit institutions, CSTA is always looking for new, more efficient ways to do business and for ways to keep CSTA membership free of charge for individual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ahalogy for Content Marketing
Brought to my attention, formerly Pingage, now Ahalogy. Previously I wrote about Pingage." ... We're building Ahalogy (formerly Pingage) to solve one simple problem...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Small Business to Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: How can small business spot innovation and connect to it? " ... Our businesses evolve and go through so many changes on a regular basis...
From Putting People First
Experientia workshop on strategic UX design for Taiwanese businesses
Taiwan meets Italy this week, in a series of workshops and company visits hosted by Experientia for Taiwanese business people. The 15 chief customer experience...
From Computational Complexity
Cryptography and the NSA
Back at Northwestern I occasionally taught an undergraduate cryptography class since I was the local expert in the field (a statement not even remotely true atAdvanced...
From Schneier on Security
Ed Felten on the NSA Disclosures
Ed Felten has an excellent essay on the damage caused by the NSA secretly breaking the security of Internet systems: In security, the worst case -- the thing you...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson