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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
GS1 Standards Page
GS1's newly redesigned Standards Page. With loads of information on the management of standards in many domains. " ... GS1 develops global standards using the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education Act (CSEA)
This looks like a very good piece of legislation. The basic idea is not to create new programs or additional spending but to reduce barriers to creating more computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top 5 R Packages
An instructive survey by a data scientist of how they use packages in R, the open source statistics, graphics and modeling environment. (analytics productivity)...
From Schneier on Security
Pre-9/11 NSA Thinking
This quote is from the Spring 1997 issue of CRYPTOLOG, the internal NSA newsletter. The writer is William J. Black, Jr., the Director's Special Assistant for Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Specializing in the Visually Impossible
In our innovation center we featured a number of technologies to engage with the consumer in retail. Digital signage was a common application. We invited companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Display as a Service
More on Intel's wireless display aggregating system, dubbed DaaS, or Display as a Service. A friend who knows this space well cautions me that the effort is from...
From Computational Complexity
Friends Don't Let Friends Carpool
The AAA foundation measured cognitive distraction while driving and reported that having a passenger in the car is as dangerous as using a cell phone. On a scale...
From Schneier on Security
Lessons from Biological Security
Nice essay: The biological world is also open source in the sense that threats are always present, largely unpredictable, and always changing. Because of this,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Garth Flint
One of my summer projects is to collect stories from different computer science teachers. There are many teachers in many types of schools and many of them often...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Cloud Interoperability and Portability
In CN Now: Don't know much about the specifics of this topic, but the article provides a good but technical overview. I have been a user of personal and company...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata Announces Hadoop Portfolio
Newly reviewing: Teradata delivers industry's first flexible, comprehensive Hadoop portfolio Teradata offers a single source for all things Hadoop - new products...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
New Template + Comments Work Again
Because someone brought it to my attention that comments weren't working anymore (and I had no idea how to fix them), I decided it was time for a new blog template...
From Schneier on Security
Secrecy and Privacy
Interesting article on the history of, and the relationship between, secrecy and privacy As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and...
From Wild WebMink
Community Foundations at OSCON
Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: OSCON is approaching and the schedule's looking great. On the Tuesday morning Simon will be one of several open source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Limits to the Limits of Growth
I read the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth shortly before entering college. I was much impressed by the details and predictions for the near future. The lesson...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Many Screens into One
Another advance from Intel Labs. Linking many screens into one large screen. We looked at these kinds of approaches in two areas: For retail display of engaging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Scanning for Driver Awareness
Study by Intel using brain scanning to determine driver awareness. A different technique to determine a measure of awareness: " ... Infrared sensors fitted to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games Creating Acheivement
Article about how game dynamics have been used inside companies to engage and prod achievement. Notably mentioned is consulting giant Accenture. And the example...
From The Eponymous Pickle