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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hopscotch–Visual Programming for iPads
is a new programming environment for the iPad. It is heavily influenced by Scratch from MIT but has nothing like the features of Scratch. It’s only in beta and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analysts in the C Suite
Interesting piece, but honestly we were in the C Suite many years ago. And the denizens of those spaces understood that complex information (their investment portfolio)...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Subset Powers of Graphs
A possible way to extend the idea of matchings? source—interesting genealogy Johann Pfaff was a German mathematician of the late 18th and early 19th century. He...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Jobs and Interactive Visualization
Tableau Public has posted an interactive visualization of big data jobs around the US. Covers 3881 jobs, classified as Data Analyst, Data Architect, Hadoop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Creative Labs and Storytelling
In Adage: In particular I like the statement that the storytellers can also influence the product. Essentially innovation via design. Closing the loop. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytic Bridge Articles
Once again Vincent Granville links to some excellent online articles. In particular an article about how excel will be able to process billions of records from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risks in Supply Chains
Indeed, this was one of the key issues that were included in consulting I did in supply chain management and design a few years ago. " ... Supply chain experts...
From Schneier on Security
The Nemim.gen Trojan
This clever piece of malware evades forensic examination by deleting its own components.
From My Biased Coin
Congratulations to Mark Bun and Justin Thaler
Luca Aceto reported the paper awards for ICALP 2013. But I find it necessary to give a special shout-out to Harvard Ph.D. students Mark Bun and Justin Thaler,Dual...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Wireless Health 2013 Calling for Papers, Abstracts and Research Demonstrations
The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance is hosting it’s fourth annual Wireless Health conference on November 1-3, 2013 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Remembering Secrets
In Wired: A discussion of the recording of your secrets in the Siri concierge system. And questioning how long these communications are being held. What are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Google Fellowship Opportunity for Up to 20 CS Teachers
For the past 3-4 months, Google has been working on a program that focuses on diversity and CS pipeline. They will be starting up a program to increase opportunities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Held Hostage
From Stephen Few. He makes some good points about the Big Data craze:" ... The Big Data marketing campaign distracts us from our greatest opportunities involving...
From Wild WebMink
Taking MariaDB Foundation Forward
I’m pleased to tell you that I have a new role that I’ve already started within the scope of Meshed Insights. It’s a new and exciting departure for me. I’ve remained...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaio makes Hardware
Well known German Augmented reality company Metaio opens a hardware innovation and development facility in Dallas:Metaio Opens New Office to Ramp up Augmented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Cautionary Data Tale
Colleague Wim Vandevelde from Brussels passes along this note and link, make sure you have your models straight:" ... How biased selection and pre-processing of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Fear of Being Boring
I recently came across Shawn Cornally‘s blog titled ThinkThankThunk and noticed that the subtitle is “Dealing with the fear of being a boring teacher.” That is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Applied Visual Analytics
Attended the Tableau Software's roadshow this morning to get an overview of Tableau 8. Nicely done update, especially with the ability to do more complex operations...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Are Parents Supporters or a Challenge for Computer Science in K-12?
As a K-12 Computer science teacher I am often presented with different challenges and they all vary depending on the grade level. Most of the time when we think...
From Putting People First