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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 Schneier on Security
Me at the RSA Conference
I'll be speaking twice at the RSA Conference this year. I'm giving a solo talk Tuesday at 1:00, and participating in a debate about training Wednesday at noon....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Excel and Big Data
In GigaOm: Walter Riker sends along this link about MS Excel and Hadoop. A surprising amount of analytical work is done in Excel, and it is natural to see links...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 25
February 26 Hearing: The Research Subcommittee and the Technology Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a joint hearing on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Team Blogging Practices
When I ran a multiple internal blog operation in the enterprise, the goals were knowledge retention, sharing and collaboration. We did both internal and external...
From Putting People First
The problem with our data obsession
To Save Everything Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov Public Affairs Book, 2013 432 pages [Amazon] Abstract In the very near future...
From Schneier on Security
Another Essay about Liars and Outliers
The Montréal Review asked me to write an essay about my latest book. Not much that regular readers haven't seen before.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 February 2013
School vacation week for me this week. Trying to get some work done around the house, relax a bit, grade a bunch and of course plan for the rest of the semester...
From Putting People First
Isobel Demangeat on the UX of augmented reality
A bit of an older talk, but still quite interesting: Isobel Demangeat, UX researcher at Qualcomm Corporate R&D Cambridge (UK), spoke at MEX in December 2011 on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Show Me the Numbers
I have been fully reading Stephen Few's book: Show me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. (Second Edition). In part for preparation of some...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Who Invented Boolean Functions?
Hint: I am not sure Calixto Badesa is a faculty member at the University of Barcelona. His department is called the Department of Logic, History, and Philosophy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sephora Haul Addiction
Ann Althouse examines the 100,000 videos entitled "Sephora Haul' on Youtube. Quite an interesting view of what might be called cosmetics addiction and ultimately...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Time For Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A former CPG innovation manager Kevin McFarthing, talks about how people collaborate for innovation in the big enterprise, spinning...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Thoughts on Grading Schemes
I spent my entire reading week grading an assignment from the first year game development course I TA for. The assignment was to design a board game with rules...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Android Robotics
A good overview, with lots of pictures, of progress in android robotics in Japan. For care giving and beyond. The empathic and human aspects are still to be determined...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secrets of Data Visualization
Erica Driver writes about data visualization. Some practical and often very true thoughts.The best secret of all that I can contribute is that you have to have...
From Wild WebMink
WebDAV Direct
LibreOffice can connect natively to a WebDav server, apparently. Here’s another video in the same series as the ones I posted about CMIS connections, showing LibreOffice...
From Putting People First
Call for Papers for EPIC 2013 London
Since its inception, the EPIC conference has brought together a dynamic community of practitioners and scholars concerned with how ethnographic thinking and methods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empathic Design
The term was a new one to me. I do agree that users are people, and you have to consider their needs to make a system that supports their decisions. Thus all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinglist
A very simple App for saving ideas and recommendations that I am currently trying. Simple is good. Is it more simple than using a basic note taking function?
From CERIAS Blog