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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 Putting People First
Interview: “Hosting Todd Harple, INTEL Experience Engineer at ITC-ILO”.
Some time ago, we suggested to Todd Harple, an anthropologist at Intel, to consider doing his 10 week sabbatical here in Turin at the International Training Center...
From Putting People First
Big Data needs Thick Data
In the wake of Big Data, ethnographers can offer thick data, says Tricia Wang. In the face of the derisive mention of “anecdotes”, we ought to stand up to defend...
From Schneier on Security
New Report on Teens, Social Media, and Privacy
Interesting report from the From the Pew Internet and American Life Project: Teens are sharing more information about themselves on their social media profiles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snubbing Apps vs Desktop
In CW World: It seems most MS WIN 8 users just try to find their way back to the classic desktop, avoiding the 'modern' App tile interface. Only touch tablet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Bar Code Scanning
A piece by the standards group GS1: GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance team up to bring intelligent bar code scanning to mobile devices ... GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethernet and the Cloud
Have noted a number of anniversaries in the last few weeks. The Web is 20 years old. And now the basic infrastructure that created the Internet, the Ethernet,...
From Computational Complexity
Quantum Computing Fast and Slow
I just read two very different science books, Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow and Scott Aaronson's Quantum Computing since Democritus. Not much to connect...
From Schneier on Security
One-Shot vs. Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
This post by Aleatha Parker-Wood is very applicable to the things I wrote in Liars & Outliers: A lot of fundamental social problems can be modeled as a disconnection...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Some Thoughts About MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) seem to be a major topic of conversation in higher education these days. Online courses for high school students tend toWould...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Intelligence Getting Smart
In Technology Review: More on the increasing abilities of AI. Immensely interesting to me as I had several encounters with the application of these methods in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization Expertise
Short CW Piece on the topic of data visualization. How specialists are emerging. I repeat that I consider data visualization an essential element of analytics...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Review / Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming
There are many resources out there for Python, but I've recently had the opportunity to enjoy a fully colour printed book on the topic. Sure, it's called Python...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
This is My Dream Job
Long ago in a land far away (well, actually only about 2.5 hours east of here -- but definitely a very different day and time), I started teaching high school...
From Putting People First
Smart citizens make smart cities, a talk by Dan Hill
“We have the technology to do anything. To make things happen you need to turn to design and redesign the context, the decision making and the question.” – Dan...
From Schneier on Security
"The Global Cyber Game"
This 127-page report was just published by the UK Defence Academy. I have not read it yet, but it looks really interesting. Executive Summary: This report presents...
From Putting People First
The future of tablets in education: potential vs. reality of consuming media
Justin Reich of MindShift has launched a four-part series to explore four dimensions of using tablets, such as the iPad, in educational settings, examining how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brainwaves Added to the Quantified Self
Word of a kickstarter project called Melon that would gather brainwaves. Another example of the quantified self. Also, related this to neuromarketing, there might...
From Apophenia
thoughts on Pew’s latest report: notable findings on race and privacy
Yesterday, Pew Internet and American Life Project (in collaboration with Berkman) unveiled a brilliant report about “Teens, Social Media, and Privacy.” As a researcher...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Oil and Gas Companies in the next 5 Years
Recorded Future uses their forward looking semantic analysis tool to understand future activities of Oil and Gas Companies. Full interactive version here.Some...
From The Eponymous Pickle