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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
Search in an Augmented World
In SEO a number of interesting implications for search in an augmented reality world. Some obvious things here. How do you add other dimensions to the search...
From Schneier on Security
Is Cryptography Engineering or Science?
Responding to a tweet by Thomas Ptacek saying, "If you're not learning crypto by coding attacks, you might not actually be learning crypto," Colin Percival published...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Ian McTavish
For today's computer science educator interview we head north of the (US) border to Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada and talk with Ian McTavish...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Independence Day
Will logical independence have its day? John Adams was the second president of the United States. He predicted that July 2nd would be always remembered: “The second...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensor Life Logging with Saga
In Technology Review: Using your smartphone sensors to monitor and record your every move. Some interesting learnings that could be applied to other sensor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Access Fraud
Brought to my attention, Fraudlogix, a system that detects access fraud, resulting from artificial lead generation. The included behavior analysis that separates...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humanoid Robotics
Kurzweil on Samsung's humanoid robot. The visual map aspect of the intelligence of the device is intriguing. Geography and knowledge need maps. I have often...
From Schneier on Security
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence Defends NSA Surveillance Programs
Here's a transcript of a panel discussion about NSA surveillance. There's a lot worth reading here, but I want to quote Bob Litt's opening remarks. He's the General...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TouchDevelop–Acceleration and GameLoop
Happy Fourth of July! If you are on the Internet today it should be for fun. For that reason I recorded a little video of using TouchDevelop to demo the GameLoop...
From Putting People First
UX and The Museum: Converging perspectives on experience design
Museums visitors are no longer as satisfied with rows of objects on display. They want the objects to tell a story. They want to understand the main message of...
From Putting People First
Intel on wearable tech: we need to focus on how we use it
Intel and its team of futurologists and anthropologists have a vision of a world where the technology is not an adjunct (as the mobile phone or the tablet is now)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Hires Luxury Brand CEO
What could this mean? Speculation, but interesting connection: " ..... Apple has hired Paul Deneve, until Tuesday the CEO of French luxury brand Yves Saint...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Thirty years from prototype to product…the mouse
Timothy B. Lee of The Washington Post reports on the death of Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse, and why it took 30 years for the public to adopt the technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Involve Employees in Strategic Planning
Fairly obvious. Well worth thinking through. Involve your employees as early as possible. Use analytic methods to understand the implications for decisions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search Enigma
I have noticed that there is lots of hype in search and data mining spaces. Intellectual property claimed that really adds to nothing at all. So I am always...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
US Rejoins World’s Top 5 Countries for Innovation
The United States is one of the five most innovative countries in the world, according to the Global Innovation Index 2013, a hefty 392-page report published by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Global Demand Sensing
More on P&G's activity in the demand forecasting realm. Note the significant use of the word 'sensing', as we gain more sensors in the world, this capability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Douglas Engelbart, Inventor of the Mouse, has Passed Away
We had the opportunity to meet with Doug Engelbart many times. He told us of the difficult time he had getting people to appreciate the mouse user interface. In...
From Schneier on Security
Privacy Protests
Interesting law journal article: "Privacy Protests: Surveillance Evasion and Fourth Amendment Suspicion," by Elizabeth E. Joh. Abstract: The police tend to think...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog