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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 Wild WebMink
CDB: Not Dead Yet
The Communications Data Bill may have come under heavy fire in Parliament, but it’s not dead yet – and it’s already cost us a fortune even without becoming law....
From Putting People First
Book: Beyond Smart Cities
(Wow, it covers Turin!) Beyond Smart Cities: How Cities Network, Learn and Innovate Tim Campbell Routledge, 2012 The promise of competitiveness and economic growth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Analytics in Retail: The Book
Large companies can afford the ability to use consultants who can help them understand such terms as 'Business Intelligence'. 'Predictive Analytics', "Big Data'...
From Schneier on Security
Tide Becomes Drug Currency
Basically, Tide detergent is a popular product with a very small profit margin. So small non-chain grocery and convenience stores are happy to buy it cheaply,started...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Force Feedback for Smartphones
Research ongoing to produce force feedback that could ultimately be used on a smartphone. This opens some interesting new sensor applications, on games certainly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Internal Collaboration Work
McKinsey Quarterly interview with Don Tapscott: " .... The author and strategist describes why effective knowledge management within enterprises requires replacing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Internet for Manufacturing
In Technology Review: Each product will remember and record how it was made, and what raw material components made it. That is a powerfully useful stream of information...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Academy of Engineering elects new Members
Election to the National Academy of Engineering – which has roughly 2,000 members across a dozen fields – is one of the highest professional honors accorded to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Postdocs in Computational Complexity Blog
Check out CCC council member Lance Fortnow’s blog, “Computational Complexity.” Today’s post focuses on postdocs in computer science. Anita Jones is troubled by...
From Computational Complexity
Postdocs in Computer Science
Anita Jones is troubled by the growing number of postdocs in computer science, she uses "troubling" twice in the first paragraph of her CACM Viewpoint. But is it...
From Schneier on Security
Over $3M in Prizes to Hack Google Chrome
Google's contest at the CanSecWest conference: Today we’re announcing our third Pwnium competitionPwnium 3. Google Chrome is already featured in the Pwn2Own competition...
From Wild WebMink
The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.0
Reblogged from The Document Foundation Blog: The free office suite the community has been dreaming of for twelve years Berlin, February 7, 2013 - The Document Foundation...
From Putting People First
Small, local, open and connected: resilient systems and sustainable qualities
How do we design a resilient socio-technical system, asks Ezio Manzini in Design Observer. “Let’s look to natural systems; their tolerance of breakdowns and their...
From Putting People First
Book: Orchestrating Human-Centered Design
Orchestrating Human-Centered Design Guy Boy Springer, 2013 The time has come to move into a more humanistic approach of technology and to understand where our world...
From Putting People First
Recent studies on the impact of tablet use in schools – an overview
2012 One-to-one Tablets in Secondary Schools: An Evaluation Study (see also here and here) Dr Barbie Clarke and Siv Svanaes, Family Kids and Youth, UK, 2012 Research...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Swapping Values The Tricky Way
Last week my friend Tom Indelicato who talking to his Advanced Placement Computer Science students about sorting. As is necessary this involved talking about how...
From Putting People First
Study on the introduction of iPads in UK secondary school
Naace, the UK’s educational ICT association, published a report last year (July 2012), entitled “The iPad as a Tool for Education – A study on the introduction...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
It's been a while since I did a Quick Links post, so there's a lot to cover. Here's the latest of what has caught my attention: First Netflix wanted to be Blockbuster...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Junaio Augmented Reality on the Second Screen
Recently received and of interest. Adding Augmented reality information to the TV screen. I hope to watch this. Note that the TV show is in German. Will attempt...
From The Eponymous Pickle