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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
Defaults in Data Visualization
An article in Junk Charts talks about hating the defaults in data visualization packages. Well, you should at least consider what the defaults are and be sure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Next Big Thing in Design
Design has recently been brought to my close attention. Tim Brown writes about his book in Linkedin: " ... In my book, Change By Design, I chronicle the end of...
From Schneier on Security
Detaining David Miranda
Last Sunday, David Miranda was detained while changing planes at London Heathrow Airport by British authorities for nine hours under a controversial British law...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing Starting Again
I’m a big fan of the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing program. This program recognizes high school young women for their interest and aptitude in technology...
From Putting People First
Designing for transparency and the myth of the modern interface
UX consultant Thomas Wendt argues that the arguments in favor of invisible interfaces are making a few key mistakes, namely: Many are assuming that invisibility...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Greece Proposing Giant Step Backward
Anyone who has followed the international news for the last couple of years has likely heard of the ongoing economic crisis in Greece. Only now, however, are we...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Designing an Intro to CS for Non-Majors: Starting With the Objectives
I have been working on my course design for my introductory computer science class for non-majors. It is taught in Processing and covers all the basics of programming...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Software Partnership Meeting on October 17
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will hold a Software Partnership Meeting on October 17, 2013, at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law in Berkeley, California...
From Schneier on Security
Protecting Against Leakers
Ever since Edward Snowden walked out of a National Security Agency facility in May with electronic copies of thousands of classified documents, the finger-pointing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailing, Brands and Consumer Experience
In the coming weeks I will be passing along some of the excellent work by correspondent Phil Hendrix. Here is a set of slides on Retailing, Brands and the Consumer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BI Falling Short
In the Forrester Blog: On alternate points of view, and ultimately adaptive intelligence. Intelligence, must almost by definition, be adaptive to new contexts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gaze Tracking with Glass
Google patent that looks at this. Is gaze tracking here the same as eye tracking? " .... As proposed by Google, the system would track the eye movements of users...
From Computational Complexity
What are Galois Games?
How are math concepts named? After the people who was involved with it. Examples: The Cook-Levin Theorem, Goldbach Conjecture, Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse games, Banach...
From Schneier on Security
"The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act"
Orin Kerr envisions what the ECPA should look like today: Abstract: In 1986, Congress enacted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to regulate government...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 August 2013
School started for me last week. I showed off some sample Kinect apps to most of my classes. For some it was to talk about human computer interaction. For others...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google as Dictionary
Further convenience for those that use Google for search: " ... From now on, Google's word search results will include synonyms, sample sentences, and some description...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unified Environments for Big Data Analytics
A good piece by correspondent Bill Franks, whose book on the topic I previously reviewed. It addresses some problems I am addressing in a project design now"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pentagon as Silicon Value Incubator
In the NYT: Work by DARPA like the Darpanet and related activities have been happening for a long time. Part of my graduate education was funded by DOD scholarships...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Account Deletion
In Techcrunch, A service that allows you to delete yourself from many common online services. There need to be more ways to clean up your online presence. A...
From The Eponymous Pickle