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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
Wolfram Creative Community
Of Interest ... Wolfram announces a crowdsourced community for their users:" ... Wolfram Community is the go-to place to discuss questions and issues relatingWolfram...
From Schneier on Security
Michael Hayden on the Effects of Snowden's Whistleblowing
Former NSA director Michael Hayden lists three effects of the Snowden documents: "...the undeniable operational effect of informing adversaries of American intelligence's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics Watch Outs
In the article they say these are 'screw ups', and I agree. I think they are more broadly applicable than just to what is called 'predictive analytics' today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CFOs Thinking Fast
Brought to my attention by a collaborator. I am a believer in quantitative analytic thinking and a critic of intuitive flash thinking, so obviously agree, ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Expectation Gaps Between IT and Business Leaders
In the Forrester Blog by Dan Bieler. More in the article: " ... new Forrester survey data indicates several gaps in opinion about network infrastructure aspects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablet Market
A look at the current tablet market. Tablets continue to replace laptops for personal computing and information access power. Apples share drops among other...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Implements Two-Man Control for Sysadmins
In an effort to lock the barn door after the horse has escaped, the NSA is implementing two-man control for sysadmins: NSA chief Keith Alexander said his agency...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
5 Programming Mistakes To Warn Students About
I like posts like 5 Programming Mistakes You Should Stop Making by Rahul Singh because they help me focus my thoughts. Through the summer I am working on planning...
From Putting People First
Ph.D thesis: Design with Intent
Brunel University London has posted the Ph.D dissertation of Daniel Lockton, entitled “Design with Intent – A design pattern toolkit for environmental & social...
From Putting People First
User-centred design on Gov.uk
The Design Manual of Gov.uk, the UK Government services and information portal, has a section on user-centred design, whereas the service manual home page describes...
From Computational Complexity
I gave a poster session at Erdos 100- so how did it go?
In a a prior post I suggested that STOC perhaps have people give posters instead of talks. While I doubt this will ever happen I think its worth thinking about,...
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Travel Meets Technology: A Weekend in Portland, Oregon.
When Facebook Graph Search came out, skeptics bemoaned the end of personal privacy. Now that people can perform targeted queries over your social media history...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy and Compliance Expertise from P&G
Once again I point to Sandra Hughes' Web site. She was previously chief privacy officer at Procter & Gamble. We were colleagues in those years. We met again...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computing Table Tops
We saw demonstrations of tabletop computing nearly a decade ago at several labs. Yet the format has not taken hold, though a few systems are still available. At...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Income Mobility in the US
MJ Perry writes and provides an informative map. Shale oil is a big driver.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail and Big Data
A case of retailer A&P using a big Data Portal. " ... This cloud-based portal enables retailers to share their proprietary data – including point of sale (POS)...
From Schneier on Security
How the FISA Court Undermines Trust
This is a succinct explanation of how the secrecy of the FISA court undermines trust. Surveillance types make a distinction between secrecy of laws, secrecy of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourced AI Includes Everyday Knowedge
In New Scientist: An AI that is apparently equivalent to a 4 year old in a verbal test. A big part of intelligence is our ability to manage our knowledge of"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Interactive Playground
Had not heard much from Disney of late in the digital world. But now an interesting play. Reminiscent of other simulation world ideas, which are usually difficult...
From Putting People First