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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
Digital Disruption and Engagement Relevance
In Adage: Digital Disruption Can Make TV Ads More, Not Less, RelevantHow An Era of Direct Relationships Will Give New Life to TV Ads By: James McQuivey of Forrester...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Abolish the Patent System
Two economists argue in this paper that the patent system should be eliminated. I agree, most of what I have seen in that system system has been garbage, and just...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast should your dynamic arrays grow?
When programming in Java or C++, your arrays have fixed sizes. So if you have an array of 32 integers and you need an array with 33 integers, you may need to create...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Skills
A fairly good list of things that are useful to be a successful analytics provider. Some of these are more generally good consulting skills. In particular, I emphasize...
From Schneier on Security
Why Is Quantum Computing So Hard?
Blog post (and two papers) by Ross Anderson and Robert Brady. News article.
From Michael Nielsen
The artist and the machine
In September of 2012, a team of scientists released a photograph showing the most distant parts of the Universe ever seen by any human being. They obtained the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
It Is the Little Things That Count
Most of us look at advocacy from a larger perspective. We think of it in terms of Districts, States, National, etc and we sometimes forget it is the little things...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Presidential Innovation Fellows Program Accepting Applications
The White House is currently accepting applications for the second round of the Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program. The program pairs top innovators...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fitness Gamification
Again, what would appear to be an ideal application to embody in an engaging game. And with an App to be taken anywhere. And gather data. Wharton discussesFrom...
From Schneier on Security
New York Times Hacked by China
This was big news last week, and I spent a lot of time doing press interviews about it. But while it is an important story -- hacking a newspaper, looking forGhostNet...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Focus (Finding Outstanding Classrooms Using Social media)
The Focus (Finding Outstanding Classrooms Using Social media) is an online video show started by Don Wettrick to showcase GREAT teachers and students. I thought...
From My Biased Coin
Zachary Quinto and Cherry Jones are in Town...
Harvard had a special faculty meet-the-director-deal thing for a preview of The Glass Menagerie, playing the next few weeks at the American Repertory Theater, that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud As Innovation Enabler in Consumer Goods
A set of observations about what is going on in Consumer Products from Smarter Planet. Some good examples of innovations to follow from the use of the Cloud. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing a Pie Critique
Most of us who do data visualization know that the Pie Chart form is rarely a good choice for displaying comparative data to promote understanding. Though I have...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My Secret to Surviving Grad School With a Baby
When I reflected on all that's happened in the last year or so, I didn't mention how I managed to do it. My secret? An excellent support system!I'm really lucky...
From Computational Complexity
The (il)logic of fandom
(UMCP is having an REU (Research Experience for Undergradutes) this summer on Combinatorial Algorithms Applied Research. If you are an ugrad, go to that site and...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Council Endorses New Publishing Policy
ACM released this statement today on changes to its publishing policy. Considering discussions around copyright policy and open access, we thought our readers would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Influencing Jobs
In IEEE Spectrum: How will robots effect the of market of 2045? An interview. " ... Automation has displaced a lot of workers in the last 50 years, and it...
From The Eponymous Pickle