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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 Planning
Something we did for thirty plus years. Under all sorts of regimes and priorities. Among what the article suggests, to be ready for chaos. Be agile. Be ready...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking Product Form for 3D Printing
An interesting view. I am still skeptical about the general use of 3D printing for manufacturing. But there are some broadening thoughts here. The designs have...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: WTF, Evolution?
WTF, Evolution? is a great blog, and they finally mentioned squid.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
K-8 Take Aways from SIGCSE
I just returned from my first SIGCSE conference inspired and renewed. After listening to Dr. Margolis' closing keynote session, where she confirmed that computer...
From Wild WebMink
Google, VP8 and Codec Standards
The politics around codecs are complex and the incumbents are prone to deceptive feints, like in 2010 when MPEG-LA claimed that H.264 was available “free” for web...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
This Year's Grace Hopper Submissions
Tonight is the deadline for the 2013 edition of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing's Call for Participation. Although I wasn't sure I was going...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Robotics Roadmap Presentation to Congress March 20
On Wednesday, March 20, a new Robotics roadmap will be presented to the Congressional Caucus on Robotics. The presentation program will include: • Overview – Henrik...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter and Verix Partnership
More on the Procter - Verix partnership , from CEO magazine. Delivering easier to apply Business Intelligence: " ... After a year of intensive teamwork between...
From Computational Complexity
Goodbye Old Friends
We had two terrible losses this week. Not people but websites, Intrade and Google Reader. The corporate auditors for the real-money Irish prediction markets...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing the Internet
Flowing data describes an App that provides a 3D representation of the infrastructure of the Internet. No specific value, except the knowledge that we are riding...
From Schneier on Security
Stuxnet is Much Older than We Thought
Symantec has found evidence of Stuxnet variants from way back in 2005. That's much older than the 2009 creation date we originally thought it had. More here and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TouchDevelop–This is Cool!
I finally decided to get serious about learning TouchDevelop this week. I have sort of toyed with it from time to time and I’ve seen the development team do demos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standards in the CPG and Retail Industry
An interesting report via GS1 from CapGemini on the future of standards there. These are key issues to make these spaces more efficient. " ... Capgemini has released...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Reader Gone
Google reader RSS is scheduled to be gone in 70 days. I have used it since it first arrived. It is a simple way to do information feeds. Very popular from what...
From Writing
What my grandfather taught me about happiness
Boris K.1919-2013This is the eulogy I gave for my grandfather on March 14, 2013. He was 93 years old. I want to share with you something I learned from my grandfather...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Glass as Newton as Vision
A colleague sends along this view in Quartz, of Google Glass as something akin to the Apple Newton, visionary in direction, but something that will pave the way...
From Schneier on Security
On Secrecy
Interesting law paper: "The Implausibility of Secrecy," by Mark Fenster. Abstract: Government secrecy frequently fails. Despite the executive branch’s obsessive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheap Gene Machines
Simpler, cheaper gene analysis could revolutionize medicine. In IEEE Spectrum. " ... Soon, Rothberg says, everybody will be sequenced—probably as infants—and...
From Putting People First