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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
Register now for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing!
I'm really excited to be attending this year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Baltimore, and I hope you'll consider going, too! Tomorrow is the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Private Social Networks
An idea we experimented with. In particular as new hires come on board expecting to communicate broadly with a social network. This makes some good points about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Thinking and Storytelling
A favorite topic of mine: Elements of the design and its story place the design in a human context.
From Schneier on Security
Fear-Mongering at TED
This TED talk trots out the usual fear-mongering that technology leads to terrorism. The facts are basically correct, but there are no counterbalancing facts,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 30 July 2012
Over on the left here is a picture of a group of young women who visited Microsoft in Cambridge MA recently as part of Boston University’s Artemis Project. This...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 30
The Senate will consider cybersecurity legislation this week. Several amendments will be introduced and debated on the floor. July 31 Hearing: The Oversight of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Internet is a product of the post-industrial age
The Internet is on fire with this question: who invented the Internet? A couple of weeks ago, the president of the USA said: Government research created the Internet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics in Police Work
An overview. Saw an IBM presentation on this earlier this year. All analytics can be used predictively, so the idea is not new. Simple block crime occurrence...
From Computational Complexity
Six Questions about unnatrual and natural mathematical objects
Today (Monday) I pose some questions. In my next post (Tuesday) I will post the answersthat I know (some I do not). Some questions are a matter of opinionin terms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technological Adoption and Economies
How historical technology adoptions have changed global economies. In HBS Working Knowledge. This has been known for a king time. Somewhat counter indicative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Searchable Map of the Internet
In FlowingData: A very dense visualization of the Internet today. A visually intriguing viz, but also an example of many opportunities missed. As the article...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Second Annual Robot Film Festival
Earlier this month, another huge crowd of roboticists, artists, and filmakers converged on Manhattan for the second annual Robot Film Festival, a daylong celebration...
From Schneier on Security
Detroit Bomb Threats
There have been a few hoax bomb threats in Detroit recently (Windsor tunnel, US-Canada bridge, Tiger Stadium). The good news is that police learned; during the...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Benford’s Law and Baseball
What distributions follow the knock of opportunity? Ted Hill is a Professor Emeritus in the Mathematics Department at Georgia Tech, and has two other affiliations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Organs on a Chip
We worked for some time with this kind of bio simulation capability that came from UCSD. Their BioNome Research Center now appears to be defunct. (Can anyone provide...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creation Myth and Reality of Innovation
Fascinating piece on innovation from PARC. Which remarks on Steve Job's famous visit to PARC labs for a demonstration of the 'windows' concept and mouse pointing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Necessity of Algebra
In the NYT. Making the case for eroding quantitative literacy. Even otherwise bright management is often mystified by simple math. So lets make that even more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Information Technology is Still Important
Surprise, IT is more more important than ever, the recent debate is about who will bring what portions of it to the table, and what are the implications of that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games in the Workplace
In Mashable. a number of interesting examples of games in play at work.
From The Eponymous Pickle