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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Early Lessons for Carleton Quest
We've been asking new students to try out our new Carleton Quest app in the last few weeks. Although I don't have a huge amount of feedback yet, there are a few...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Massive Open Online Courses
I have been connected to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for some time now. The link gives an overview of what they do and cover today. The topic reminds me...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kinect Sensors in Everyday Life
Still looking at the opportunities to connect sensors to gather to improve analytical decision making. Here some more learnings out of CES on the topic of using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emailed Dashboards
David Hecht via Teradata's Gib Bassett. On a school of management based on emailed dashboards. Lately there has been This article suggests a simple method of...
From Schneier on Security
Commenting on Aaron Swartz's Death
There has been an enormous amount written about the suicide of Aaron Swartz. This is primarily a collection of links, starting with those that use his death to...
From Computational Complexity
A New application of Ramsey Theory to a Geometry problem
All of the material summazized here is in a new paper by Gasarch and Zbarsky. You can find that paper here) Consider the following problem: Let {p1,...,pn}...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teacher as Opportunity Activator
Yesterday I tried out a little web site called Name Tag Analyzer that looks at your LinkedIn information (this assumes you have a Linked In Account of course)Rob...
From Schneier on Security
Google's Authentication Research
Google is working on non-password authentication techniques. But for Google's password-liberation plan to really take off, they’re going to need other websites...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Potty Training
Metaio reports on Kimberly Clark's Pull-ups potty training via an Augmented reality App. To Celebrate the First Flush. Clever idea here. Descriptive Video."...
From My Biased Coin
Auernheimer Speaks
Auernheimer -- who as I've discussed on this blog was convicted of a felony by accessing AT&T servers -- put out a statement yesterday.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Quality Dimensions
From Malcolm Chisholm: Rethinking the Dimensions of Data Quality. An important issue. Consider that data supports analytics, and analytics drives decision making...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things
In Information Week: A video about a visit to the Internet of Things Consortium at CES. The trend that continues to develop. With many concerns and increasing...
From Wild WebMink
Thaw
Icicles, originally uploaded by webmink. The thaw in the Deep South is in full swing; even these icicles have dripped away from the office window now.
From Schneier on Security
Thinking About Obscurity
This essay is worth reading: Obscurity is the idea that when information is hard to obtain or understand, it is, to some degree, safe. Safety, here, doesn't mean...
From My Biased Coin
Here Comes Another One
And yet another security story -- this one titled find a bug, get expelled or something close to that in various places. I'm going to have to find out where I send...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Analysis and the Brand
In Mediapost: A good example of a non conscious detection of brand engagement i.e. 'neuromarketing' capability. Here using the analysis of faces during stimulus...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is learning useless stuff good for you?
We often require all students to learn things they may never need like latin, calculus, advanced trigonometry and classical literature. The implicit assumption...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablet Adoption in the Enterprise
A broad overview of rising adoption of iPad's in the enterprise. Interesting stats. I do not like the use of the slide show format for this kind of information...
From Schneier on Security
TSA Removing Rapiscan Full-Body Scanners from U.S. Airports
This is big news: The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will remove airport body scanners that privacy advocates likened to strip searches after OSItwo...
From The Eponymous Pickle