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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
Confronting Neuroscam
Roger Dooley author of Brainfluence, seeks to answer a number of the criticisms that have emerged recently about neuromarketing methods in the nontechnical press...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Honey bees are not going extinct
There is much argument about what science is. To some people, it appears to be mostly the belief that information should be derived reputed sources. That is, if...
From The Eponymous Pickle
George Dyson on the Decision Problem
Historian of science George Dyson in The Edge. " ... The ultimate goal of signals intelligence and analysis is to learn not only what is being said, and what is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Innovation Performance
Bain & Company on the topic. Very well done. Taking measure is very important. " ... Innovation is one of the most popular acts in business, but one of the...
From Schneier on Security
Secret Information Is More Trusted
This is an interesting, if slightly disturbing, result: In one experiment, we had subjects read two government policy papers from 1995, one from the State Department...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Louis Zulli Jr
Lou Zulli Jr is a quiet unassuming man. What he does with his students is anything but minor though. The projects his students have done with smartphones, SharePoint...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots as Army Squad Members
Not unexpected. A play on the drone idea, but with a higher element of cooperation. Which should require a higher level of autonomy and AI. " .... The U.S. Army...
From Computational Complexity
Ph.D. Attrition
Leonard Cassuto writes in the Chronicle an article Ph.D. Attrition: How Much Is Too Much? He presupposes the answer with the subtitle "A disturbing 50 percent of...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Encouraging Students to Make Mistakes and Learn How to Debug
I've been slowly reading Papert's Mindstorms as I've had time (finally!). This paragraph (pg 114) really jumped out at me:It is easy to empathize. The ethic of...
From Schneier on Security
Details on NSA/FBI Eavesdropping
We're starting to see Internet companies talk about the mechanics of how the US government spies on their users. Here, a Utah ISP owner describes his experiences...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology discusses Big Data as it relates to Smart Cities
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) met on July 18, 2013 in a joint session with the Council for Science and Technology (CST)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Infographics
Have had cause to look at how to effectively and cheaply generate infographics. I have criticized the infographics form a number of times here, but do like the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Georgia Tech MOOC
A good example of how universities are starting to integrate online courses with other offerings. What is its implication more broadly to the University system...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Mapping Interiors
In Wired: A camera that can map an interior space and digitize it. An impressive ability that I can think of some retail uses for. " ... This fall, MatterPort...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deriving Visual Structure
Every line in the Novel: The Great Gatsby, as an infographic. The future of writing? Or a better understanding of structure in unstructured data? Here mostly...
From Schneier on Security
Poached Eggs
The story of people who poach and collect rare eggs, and the people who hunt them down. Securing wildlife against poachers is a difficult problem, especially when...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: David Burkhart
Today’s interview is David Burkhart from rural Ohio. Dave is another teacher who has been very active in the CSTA and is a former board member. As you read though...
From Putting People First
Evgeny Morozov, solutionism and the politics of usability
Luke Fernandez, Manager of Program and Technology Development at Weber State University, has published a review of Evgeny Morozov’s To Save Everything Click Here...
From Putting People First
Don Norman on the paradox of wearable technologies
Can wearable devices augment our activities without distracting us from the real world, asks Don Norman in an article just published in the MIT Technology Review...
From The Eponymous Pickle