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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
PAEMST Awards Now Include Computer Science
This year, for the first time, the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) specifically include computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Google Image Search Interface
Newly described. Have spent time looking at image search interfaces and how they can be used to both direct search and gather images for analysis. They changes...
From Schneier on Security
Violence as a Contagious Disease
This is fascinating: Intuitively we understand that people surrounded by violence are more likely to be violent themselves. This isn't just some nebulous phenomenon...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 January 2013
A couple of house keeping items to start. First off, did you know that you can get new blog posts by email? Yep, on the right side of the page is a little signTraining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telepresence Healthcare
Brought to my attention by Mark J Perry. Description and link to a video. This addresses remote healthcare in an enclosed kiosk.. In the early days of our retail...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Companies are Using Gamification
In GigaOM: Beyond the hype, as it says. Category examples and a number of links to the ways that companies are using game dyamics to solve problems, enagage with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Smart City
An interesting piece about how Glasgow, Scotland has won a competition to be the UK's first 'Smart City' experiment, linking widespread sensors and analytics to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Search for Recruiting
In Mashable: Using Facebook Graph search for recruiting. I am seeing more companies today interested in hiring, but making sure to sure they hire the right...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Machines and World Without Work
General AP article that covers a number of developments in the last decade. Perhaps leading to less labor. This kind of labor singularity is still some distance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Efficiency vs Value in Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A look at the innovation equation. Measurement is always a useful exercise, even if you don't use the measure directly. " ... What...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Your Personal Brand
I was pointed to some interesting pieces in this blog about measuring and improving your personal brand: . " ... Leaders need to have a big, bold vision that others...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Marketing Spend Rising
AdAge article on how increasing P&G performance is leading to increasing its marketing spending. P&G already planned to step up marketing and innovation in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scanning the Brains of Dogs
In Wired: An article about how DARPA is planning to scan the brains of dogs to make better choices of military pairings. An interesting idea that could look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Skill Shortage?
Forbes piece on what they call a Big Data Skills Shortage. Here I believe that followup training to a typical Computer Science or Information Management degree...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Making Primes More Random
Mathematical tricks Ben Green grew up about 100 meters from the house in Bristol where Paul Dirac was born and lived until age 10. He has followed Dirac to Cambridge...
From Wild WebMink
Body As Instrument
Fascinating video of Imogen Heap explaining her “gloves” – actually a set of instrumentation that detects body position and gestures and provides haptic and visual...
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The Problem with "Mansplaining"
The "mansplaining" meme, which captures the phenomenon of men being patronizing to women in conversation, is trending on the internet. There is a Tumblr here; a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Education and Industry–Friends or Foes?
Industry and education should be the best of friends. They should both be working towards some common goals. Mutually supportive allies. These days that doesn’t...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squirming Tentacle USB Drive
Just the thing. (Note that this is different than the previous squid USB drive I blogged about.) As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
From Schneier on Security