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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
Stats on Interest in Statistics
The Numbers Guy in the WSJ comments on the increasing interest in statistics as a field of study. Since statistics is the underlying foundation of analytics, it...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
House Creates Congressional App Challenge
The U.S. House of Representatives created a national academic competition this week for students to showcase their talents in science, technology, engineering,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising and the Internet of things
In the HBR: An internet of things that links to deliverable advertising. Kevin Ashton, mentioned in the article, worked with us in the innovation center.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Another Squid Cartoon.
Another. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Wild WebMink
Certification And Innovation
While there is probably a place for ”granular” certifications, especially if their origin is the external accreditation of real-world recognition inside a community...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently announced the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) program solicitation. “The goal of the Smart and Connected Health...
From Apophenia
Is Facebook Destroying the American College Experience?
Sitting with a group of graduating high school seniors last summer, the conversation turned to college roommates. Although headed off to different schools, they...
From Putting People First
The user research behind HTC One’s Sense 5 interface
Drew Bamford, Director of User Experience at HTC, explains Sense 5.0 and why the company’s Android UX needed redefining. “HTC radically overhauled the look and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strengthening Brand America
Ed Burghard curates and posts on economic development and place branding. Always some interesting ideas than can be applied to the local brand.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Boosts Analytics Revenue Goals
Not unexpected based on my reading. The intersection of Big Data and analytics requires a consulting base, which IBM clearly has. Recent acquisitions also point...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Publication as Process
On academic publication as process in CACM. Big changes are continuing in the space of how information is found, produced and delivered.
From Schneier on Security
Phishing Has Gotten Very Good
This isn't phishing; it's not even spear phishing. It's laser-guided precision phishing: One of the leaked diplomatic cables referred to one attack via emailwrote...
From Putting People First
The Google Glass feature no one is talking about
The Google Glass feature that (almost) no one is talking about is the experience – not of the user, but of everyone other than the user, writes Mark Hurst in a...
From Putting People First
In a world of connected devices, focus on what they do
Stacey Higginbotham reports on a the GigaOM Internet of things meetup in San Francisco a few days ago: “All of the participants agreed that the connected device...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Desktops
More from TED: The next logical step in interface? Or does this go a dimension too far? Even a real desktop is flattened, unless you are dealing with 3D architectural...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Txt Speak as Linguistic Miracle
Ars Technica on a TED Talk. I am still skeptical that our languages will evolve into a simpler, acronym ridden shortening of tokens and meme pointers. The article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Naked Statistics
Part of my role long ago was to explain analytics to executives. That included many things, from analytical methods, predictive systems to statistics. So I was...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
What We're Not Doing to Tackle the Women in Tech Issue
Venture Beat recently ran an article about tackling tech's gender problem the right way (according to them, by teaching women to code). Part of the article discusses...
From Schneier on Security