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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
Think Like a Consumer
In AdAge: Think less like an executive, more like a consumer. Agree, an executive is not your typical consumer. In the many innovation center tours I gave for...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Unboxing GoldieBlox
Way back when, I missed out on the Roominate Kickstarter campaign, and I regretted it afterwards. So when GoldieBlox was proposed, I jumped on it. Plus, $30 to...
From Schneier on Security
A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords
Ars Technica gave three experts a 16,000-entry encrypted password file, and asked them to break them. The winner got 90% of them, the loser 62% -- in a few hours...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Speaking Hello World – TouchDevelop
Regular readers know that I have been learning TouchDevelop in my spare time. I really hope to find some concentrated time over the summer to really dig in buthttp...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Psst—It’s The Definition
Definitions are extremely important src Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali won the 2012 ACM Turing Award last March for their seminal work in cryptography. We are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Prisms with Similar Purposes
The Prism system has been much in the news today, apparently a multiple dimension-ed data gathering and predictive analytics system, recently exposed as a government...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Senate Briefing on Accessible Information and Communication Technologies
Former U.S. Congressman Tony Coelho, who was the primary author and sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, moderated a Senate briefing yesterday...
From Computational Complexity
Complexity Typecast
Lance: Welcome to another exciting typecast coming from sunny Stanford University. I'm with Bill at the 28th Conference on Computational Complexity. Hi Bill, IBill...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CG Execs Share Marketing Insights
From CGT: Mention of a number of interesting items including the use of Big Data. The meeting was named: " "Datatopia: From Big Data to Meaningful Customer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fuzzy Logix
Newly brought to my attention and examining in more depth. Fuzzy Logix. " .... We enable companies to embed in-database analytics directly into their business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disruptive Technologies from McKinsey
McKinsey looks at disruptive technologies. " ... Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy, a report from the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Big Data Means
Bob Inmon provides a useful Venn diagram to describe what Big Data is and how it relates to other kinds of data. Text is certainly the most important part of unstructured...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaboration with Lists and Search
In CWorld: Short view on the continued evolution of collaboration software. Its acceptance within the enterprise. As they say there, this started with a very...
From Putting People First
Participatory design in healthcare
Participatory Design in Healthcare: Patients and doctors can bridge critical information gaps is the title of a UX Magazine article by Andrii Glushko, a UX designer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gary Cokins on EPM Analytics
A piece that overviews some of Gary Cokin's view on analytics. Have read and passed a few of his columns. Well done. He talks about Enterprise Performance Management...
From Putting People First
Technology puts power in the hands of the Millennial Generation
This week the Financial Times has run two reports on the Millennial Generation. Part Two (pdf) came out today, whereas Part One is from June 3. Part Two’s leading...
From Putting People First
The future of human-centered design
“Throughout my career, and especially as a designer at IDEO,” writes Nathan Waterhouse, “I’ve been a passionate believer of the value of placing people first, of...
From Schneier on Security
The Cost of Terrorism in Pakistan
This study claims "terrorism has cost Pakistan around 33.02% of its real national income" between the years 1973 and 2008, or about 1% per year. The St. Louis$100...
From Putting People First
Experientia presentation at EPIC London
EPIC, the premier international gathering on the current and future practice of ethnography in the business world, just announced the program of its upcoming conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle