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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
Analytics Newsletter
Always good Analytics Newsletter. Latest issue. Lots of directly useful topics. Tied directly to the modern issues of data, decisions and results. Subscribe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving Big Data Problems with Visualization
A SAS paper, which requires some registration. I believe you should always build a sandbox for relevant visualization when doing analytics on a data set. Let...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act this Congress?
During last Wednesday’s hearing on “Investigating and Prosecuting 21st Century Cyber Threats,” the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security...
From Putting People First
Sustainable living and behavioural change
A Unilever sponsored sustainability supplement to The Guardian contains a short articles by Dan Lockton that is worth exploring. Design for sustainability: making...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Rooms
Your company needs a decision room. To help create change and foster innovation. Click on the labels below to see some of Procter & Gamble's work in this area...
From Schneier on Security
Text Message Retention Policies
The FBI wants cell phone carriers to store SMS messages for a long time, enabling them to conduct surveillance backwards in time. Nothing new there -- data retention...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Supply Chain Risks
And the dangers of an opaque supply chain. And how this increases in a complicated world. And how this relates to the recent horsemeat scandal. " ... Two...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen Tracking
In Adage: How Nielsen tracks almost everything, with some mini case studies of how it works. Instructive.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Story Graph Example Inspired by The Paper Bag Princess
Without giving too much away, I wanted to share an early example of the types of story graphs I'm working on for my thesis. This was my first example, and it's...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Launches Search Committee for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Division Director
The following was submitted by Farnam Jahanian, NSF Assistant Director for CISE. Dear Colleagues, The National Science Foundation CISE Directorate is pleased to...
From Computational Complexity
The Slot Machine Theory of Paper Submissions
Why do scientists publish so much? There is the whole "publish or perish" thing but that doesn't explain the large increase in quantity of publications. With a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheap Data Visualization
There are lot of possibilities here. This slideshow outlines them. I also see that Tableau 8 is out today, plan to look at that excellent package for interactive...
From Wild WebMink
Leveson Collateral Damage
I just sent this to my MP. Feel free to borrow from it. Dear $MP, I’m one of your constituents ($postcode), as well as being a pro bono director of Open Rights...
From Schneier on Security
When Technology Overtakes Security
A core, not side, effect of technology is its ability to magnify power and multiply force -- for both attackers and defenders. One side creates ceramic handguns...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Math, Physics, Art and the Spirograph
When I was a kid there were a number of spirograph toys available. Some, like the ones available today, had gears and circles with sprockets. One very old toy that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of MOOC U
In the Pennsylvania Gazette, an excellent and detailed article on Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). My undergraduate alma mater, The University of Pennsylvania...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Cloud for Mobile Health Data
A not unexpected development. Standards will lead to the application of analytics:WebMD, Qualcomm build consumer cloud for mobile health dataWebMD is also building...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Urban Mobility Innovation
A topic of particular interest, special report:Next Stop, Innovation: What’s Ahead for Urban Mobility? Transportation in the 21st century is entering a robust phase...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Upcoming Event – ACM Turing Award Recipient Dr. Vint Cerf on “Reinventing the Internet”
ACM Turing Award Recipient Dr. Vint Cerf on “Reinventing the Internet” Monday, May 13, 2013, 6:30 pm Google DC 1101 New York Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog