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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
Kip Hawley on Fixing the TSA
The further Kip Hawley has gotten from running the TSA, the more sense he has started to make. This is pretty good.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Education Interview: Tammy Pirmann
Tammy Pirmann is my mentor on the CSTA Board of Directors and is helping me understand how and what it is all about. More importantly she teaches at a public high...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Video Game to Map the Brain
Fascinating piece in Wired about the use of game dynamics to map connections in the brain. Another example of the use of game dynamics, one of several that are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Color Theory App
In Wired: Regarding an interesting book on the theory of color, by Josef Albers, is presented on an iPad App. Not free it seems. I recall this book being mentioned...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House to host a “We the Geeks” hangout on Robots!
The White House has been hosting a series of Google+ hangouts called “We the Geeks” that highlight the future of scientific innovation in the United States. The...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Research Opportunities for Undergraduates
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has a website for Computer Science Undergraduate Research and Graduate Education (CS URGE), which can be found here. You...
From Putting People First
An object of journalism: the hyperlink
Juliette de Maeyer kicks off this month’s edition of EthnographyMatters which focuses on Ethnographies of Objects, with a response to two questions posed to her...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA and Augmented Reality Catalog
See furniture in your own apartment using augmented reality in IKEA's 2014 catalog. A good example of AR in mobile retail. And its potential for using AR to insert...
From Putting People First
To get users to make smarter choices now, show them their future
Design can be used to introduce users to the future now, so they can act in ways that will benefit them in the future, writes Nikki Pfarr, researcher and strategist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social and Mobile Innovation
In Knowledge@Wharton: New models are at play. Note my recent piece that addresses increasing efficiency for innovation. From a recent conference. Noting that...
From Putting People First
Book: Why We Fail
Why We Fail: Learning from Experience Design Failures By Victor Lombardi 248 pages Rosenfeld Media Why did Twitter succeed while Pownce plotzed? Why has “to Plaxo”...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Tagging
In GigaOM: Tagging is a long time interest. Costs and power requirements have always been a issue. This also relates to an internet of things, where simply finding...
From Schneier on Security
Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet
In July 2012, responding to allegations that the video-chat service Skype -- owned by Microsoft -- was changing its protocols to make it possible for the government...
From Schneier on Security
Has Tor Been Compromised?
There's speculation that the FBI is responsible for an exploit that compromised the Tor anonymity service. Note that Tor nodes installed or updated after June...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GotoGlue and the Personal Brand
An enterprise colleague of mine pointed me to GotoGlue. I much like the idea of having a personal brand while connecting Job Seekers, Organizations and Employers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Mindset in Action at 3M
In the HBR Blogs (requires registration): The methods used by 3M have always been of interest. See also the previous posts. " ... In three recent blog posts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Going Global Faster with Cloud and Mobile
I have been in the midst of looking at how companies use mobile, focused data, cloud and ultimately analytical support. So have developed interest in how all these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Review
In Readwrite Web: A good overview of why the author thinks Linkedin is their favorite social network. I agree, because it does maintain a business focus. Second...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Surveillance and Mission Creep
Last month, I wrote about the potential for mass surveillance mission creep: the tendency for the vast NSA surveillance apparatus to be used for other, lesser,already...
From Putting People First