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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
Data Analytics Disruption in the Enterprise
Thoughtful piece in Greenplum. Once again I like the general idea, you look for patterns in data with an analytical search , then use an analytical method to use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Guide to 3D Printers
Want to manufacture things to digital specifications at a distance? Build components in your cellar? As long as the components can be cut, formed or extruded from...
From Putting People First
Q&A with the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation’s Gerry Greaney and Molly McMahon
Since its inception in 2008, the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation has become the poster child for internal innovation practices. The Center for Innovation focuses...
From Putting People First
Uncharted territory: Where digital maps are leading us
The way we use maps is evolving fast, and it will change a great deal more than how we navigate, argues Kat Austen, an opinion editor at New Scientist. “Digital...
From Computational Complexity
TCS online series- could this work?
Oded Regev, Anindya De and Thomas Vidick we are about to start an online TCS seminar series. See here for details, though I have the first few paragraphs below...
From Putting People First
Successful public service design must focus on human behaviour
David Halpern, director of the Behavioural Insight Team at the UK Cabinet Office (widely known as the “nudge unit”), discusses research on how subtle changes in...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
A Few Good Game Podcasts
Now that I finally have a vehicle that can play files on a USB key, I've been able to listen to podcasts to make the most of my commuting time. I've been focusing...
From Putting People First
New MA at UC London combining anthropology, materials and design
“The material world is a world of social potential. Social scientists should be better equipped to engage with materials and objects through ethnographic, critical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks Evolving Mobile Strategy
Starbucks is thinking of using its ground-breaking mobile card for payment in CPG retail. This extent of this is unclear but interesting. " ... Starbucks takes...
From Schneier on Security
Backdoors Built in to Barracuda Networks Equipment
Don't we know enough not to do this anymore?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slides from UC Visualization Day
The slides from two of the presentations from last weeks UC Data Visualization Day have now been posted. Both very well done. If you would like my impressions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Postdigital
A new idea to me, In a newly distruptuve era of analytics are we ready to be 'postdigital'? I think we are a distance from that, singularity or not. But an interesting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Four Computer Scientists Win Academy Award
Four computer scientists win, the film industry’s highest honor, an Academy Award, for their technical achievement in special effects. The researchers developed...
From Schneier on Security
Complexity and Security
I have written about complexity and security for over a decade now (for example, this from 1999). Here's the results of a survey that confirms this: Results showed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Health Tracking Survey
In Information Week, a very good article and statistics about the use of mobile devices to track health information, based on a recent PEW survey. " ... SevenSixty...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New CSTA Discussion List
This is something we (Computer Science educators) have needed for a while – a general purpose mailing list to discuss a wider range of CS education topics. As this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Going Home Again aka Back To The Classroom
Started teaching again full-time today. I’m teaching at the same school I taught at 9.5 years ago when I went to work for Microsoft. There are a lot of changes....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Analytics at Ford
A good profile of colleague Michael Cavaretta at the Ford Motor Company We met a few years ago to see how our enterprises could colllaborate. " ... Cavaretta's...
From Schneier on Security
Dangerous Security Theater: Scrambling Fighter Jets
This story exemplifies everything that's wrong with our see-something-say-something war on terror: a perfectly innocent person on an airplane, a random person identifying...
From The Eponymous Pickle