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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data through the Years
Earlier this month, Gil Press of Forbes wrote A Very Short History Of Big Data. The history in this article begins in 1944, but jumps every few years until 2008...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Completes Us
In E-Commerce Times: MicroStrategy CEO on how our mobile presence completes us. An interesting take. Helps form our identity, yes. And beyond the idea of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Information Dashboard Design
Stephen Few is coming out with a new edition of his book: Dashboard Design. He writes about it here. Have not read it, but may be the time to do that. From his...
From Schneier on Security
DDOS as Civil Disobedience
For a while now, I have been thinking about what civil disobedience looks like in the Internet Age. Certainly DDOS attacks, and politically motivated hacking in...
From Putting People First
Death, life and place in great digital cities
At the heart of the Smarter Cities movement is the belief that the use of engineering and IT technologies, including social media and information marketplaces,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Causes of World Death
A good dynamic visualization of this data in Tableau public, emphasizing a treemap visualization and supporting bar charts. I think this could be used for many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Illusions of Cognition in Computing
Interesting Forrester piece: In fact all AI and expertise based systems appear to be cognitive. How is this an illusion? In fact in our own experiments with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Sexism and Women in Technology
There seems to be a lot of discussion on the Internet about women in technology. More specifically the troubles they have with. The Girls in IT–Infographic andHow...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Twin Primes Are Useful
Why the recent breakthrough is important Yitang Zhang, of the University of New Hampshire, has apparently proved a finite approximation to the famous Twin Prime...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Management Tools and Trends 2013
A look at the year 2013: From Darrell Rigby, my correspondent at Bain & Company. " .... Global executives who participated in Bain & Company's 14th Management...
From Computational Complexity
Do you KNOW how you KNOW what you KNOW? I don't KNOW.
When watching Jeopardy with Darling if I get a question correct that is NOT in my usual store of knowledge (that is NOT Ramsey Theory, NOT Vice Presidents, NOTHow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson as a Customer Service Agent
In Forbes: Once your have built an 'intelligent' knowledge structure like Watson, all sorts of advisory applications come to mind. In the link it is positioned...
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance and the Internet of Things
The Internet has turned into a massive surveillance tool. We're constantly monitored on the Internet by hundreds of companies -- both familiar and unfamiliar. Everything...
From Putting People First
How the Mobile Mind Shift is different in Europe
People are in the midst of making a Mobile Mind Shift, which can be defined as “the expectation that any desired information or service is available, on any appropriate...
From Putting People First
Service Design + Lean UX + Disruptive Design = UX Strategy?
It seems like the UX community has been struggling a bit to reach a common definition of UX strategy. Is it a framework or an approach? Is it a methodology or a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Girls in IT–Infographic and Report from NCWIT
I found an info graphic from NCWIT on Girls in IT to be pretty interesting. I can’t get it to format right in this blog format but you can see it here. I’ve got...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Regulatory Burdens
A number of studies examine this. MJ Perry concludes that regulatory costs are the second highest component of a US family's cost.
From My Biased Coin
Grades In
The grades are in for CS 124. Hooray!Interesting trend : freshmen, who make up a small fraction of the class, are highly over-represented in the A and A- grades...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data in that Toothbrush
In Adage: More internet of things linked with consumer behavior plays: " ... Imagine for a second that you could interview a product. How often is it being used...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson