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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 Schneier on Security
Government Secrecy and the Generation Gap
Big-government secrets require a lot of secret-keepers. As of October 2012, almost 5m people in the US have security clearances, with 1.4m at the top-secret level...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching the World to Make Maps
Making Maps. Another example of specialty MOOC. " ... Meet the Man Who Wants to Teach the World to Make Maps. The world’s first digital-mapping MOOC (massive...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Launching New Postdoc Best Practices Program with Funding Opportunities
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) seeks to catalyze the computing research community and the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research. Paramount to the...
From Schneier on Security
Excess Automobile Deaths as a Result of 9/11
People commented about a point I made in a recent essay: In the months after 9/11, so many people chose to drive instead of fly that the resulting deaths dwarfed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 September 2013
Busy week for me. Lots of stuff going on at school. Seems like the first few weeks of school wear me out no matter how hard I try to be prepared. I have fewer links...
From Putting People First
From nice view to amazing journey: UNstudio and Experientia transforming the observation wheel experience
Click on image to view slideshow This week, both Dezeen Magazine and Wired have featured articles about UNStudio’s design for the Nippon Moon, a Giant Observation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Core Blue
A former colleague of mine, Jeff Fenter, reports he has set up an effort called Core Blue. I like the approaches being used here, which mirror some of the work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cards as the Future of the Web
Cards as design. An interesting challenge. Link contains lots of visual examples. I remember the card systems used on the Mac. Is this a a replay of that method...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Memories Can Recombine
It has been determined that our memories are less permanent and stable than we thought. Now research that shows memories can be combined to create new experiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Grocery Shopping
Called Instacart: Personal Shopping remains a narrow market. With crowdsourcing come quality assurance issues. " .... In contrast to the high overhead...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Sought
Seth Godin pens a short item item being found versus being sought and how this is of particular interest in a mobile and social world.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Sandboxes
Sandbox as a UI. We did something related, but without sand. Touch interface. Created a sandbox workbench which implemented a retail design. This allowed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japanese Startup Culture
In FastCompany: Never involved with Japan startup culture, but have a number of times worked with their innovation world. Which I thought was strong, but had a"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Types of Analytics
Yet another view of categories of analytics, here Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive and Prescriptive. Adding diagnostic, which I have not typically added to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Videos for Learning R
Two popular videos from Stanford, for learning the statistical environment R. Reviewing now. Via Star Bridge Partners.
From Schneier on Security
My New PGP/GPG and OTR Keys
You can find my new PGP public key and my OTR key fingerprint here.
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post by Justin Thaler: A "Mini-Survey" of Practical Verification Algorithms
Justin Thaler, after presenting his most recent work on verifiable computation at Crypto, decided to write up a mini-survey on recent work in the area, and he offered...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Found Off the Coast of Spain
The incomplete specimen weighs over 160 lbs. And here's a map of squid spottings. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle