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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
On News Aggregation: Added Value Facts
In CACM: News aggregation is a common thing in the internet. Many sites and blogs find news in their specialty areas, and the results are redistributed to different...
From The Eponymous Pickle
$99 Tablet
Akin to the $99 laptop, the $99 tablet, which I wrote about in the enterprise some long time ago with the hope of getting some support to drive it world-wide. Is...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reinventing American Manufacturing – The Role of Innovation
An excellent article by MIT’s Bill Bonvillian, just out in the MIT Press journal Innovations. Bill’s prescription: The U.S. must develop an integrated strategy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reorganizing the Web to Get Stuff Done
A big part of this is reorganizing search, a big component of our use of the Web. This article talks about that from the search engine Bing's perspective. Isee...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Importance of Mentoring
My school celebrated CS Ed Week with a visit from alumni who are working in CS-related careers. One alumnus spoke to my students over skype about his career in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
War Gaming Innovation Strategy
Battle testing an innovation strategy. In the McKinsey Quarterly. This does remind me of defense department approaches, that were reimplemented in big enterprise...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptography Engineering Available as an eBook
Finally, Cryptography Engineering is available as an ebook. Even better, it's today's deal of the day at O'Reilly: $27.50 (50% off) and no copy protection. (The...
From updated sporadically at best
A Belated Brief on Barcelona
Notes from a more decadent time...Itinerary: Barcelona with Kate, April 2012. Photos here.Day 1. Arrive in Barcelona by plane close to midnight on a Friday evening...
From Schneier on Security
Hackers Use Backdoor to Break System
Industrial control system comes with a backdoor: Although the system was password protected in general, the backdoor through the IP address apparently required...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holiday Shopping Behavior
Mintel releases some holiday shopping behavior statistics in Progressive Grocer.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Merry Christmas 2012
Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year to all my readers and friends. Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magazine: Driving Innovation in Big Data
New and appears to be quite interesting. Including: " ... Our interview with Principal Scientist at NASA, Ashok Srivastav ... ". Registration required.
From Schneier on Security
Peruvian Spider Species Creates Decoys
Clyclosa spiders create decoys to fool predators.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling Daily
A Paper.li collection of information about storytelling ideas and technology.
From The Eponymous Pickle
B-Reel
Selling high tech ideas at B-Reel. An example of using a mix of digital and other media to sell product. Some interesting examples of 2011 are described. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Myers-Briggs as Assessment
We never used the well known Myers-Briggs personality test for specific decisions. But it was promoted as a means for self-understanding. I was convinced it was...
From Schneier on Security
Phishing via Twitter
Interesting firsthand phishing story: A few nights ago, I got a Twitter direct message (DM) from a friend saying that someone was saying nasty things about me,...
From Putting People First
How are students actually using IT? An ethnographic study
This ECAR research bulletin describes an anthropological ethnographic analysis of student practices relating to the use of information technology on the University...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 December 2012
It’s the day before Christmas and at my house we have been cooking for days getting things prepared that can be prepared early. I haven’t spent as much time on...
From The Eponymous Pickle