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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
Literacy: Not Just for English Class Anymore
Do you remember the "writing across the curriculum" push? If you've been teaching for more than about eight years, I'm sure you do - in addition to everything else...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Judea Pearl is the 2011 A.M. Turing Award Recipient
The Association for Computing Machinery has awarded the 2011 A.M. Turing Award, considered the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in Computing, to Judea Pearl, a Professor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Locately Shopper Intercept
Locately on DemandTec. I was recently pointed to this path-to-purchase approach that I had not heard of before, another example of an instrumented component,...
From Schneier on Security
Assorted Schneier News Stories
I have several stories in the news (and one podcast), mostly surrounding the talks I gave at the RSA Conference last month.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bricklin on the Tablet Revolution
Dan Bricklin, inventor of the Visicalc spreadsheet, provides some insight into the tablet revolution. There are some clear similarities and striking differences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empowering IT
Tips on empowering IT from the Coca-Cola Company. Their " ... CIO wants to ensure that IT managers are viewed as 'business engineers' and 'true peers,' not pushovers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Names Judea Pearl 2011 Turing Award Winner
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers Shutting Facebook Stores
The curious example of retailers shutting their Facebook stores. " ... A Bloomberg report this weekend pointed out that Gap, J.C. Penney, Nordstrom and GameStop...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
REMINDER: NSF/CISE Running a CAREER Workshop
As we noted in this space last month, the
From Schneier on Security
More "Liars and Outliers" Links
First, five new reviews of the book. Second, four new AV interviews about the book. Third, I take the Page 99 Test.
From Putting People First
The consumerisation of IT
In November last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) published the short (free) report “The consumerization of IT- The next-generation CIO“. The
From The Eponymous Pickle
Encarta Killed Britannica
I well remember when Encarta became available on Windows. The simple encyclopedia was bought by Microsoft and we installed it for tests in some admin offices and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine
The March April Analytics Magazine. Lots of background and how-to information. Sports,marketing, public sector, supply chain and more.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Buckeye Top Fifty
Communication is an important part of every aspect of our lives, especially when choosing a career. Recently, Kelly Flowers, guidance counsellor at West Muskingum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Battling for the Wal-Mart Shelf
4000 new products battle for the Wal-Mart Shelf. Interesting stats in CGT. Is this why online ultimately wins? Though you can see and feel and touch the items...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Launches NITRD Symposium Website;Videos, Slides, Written Summaries of Talks All Available
On Feb. 16th, over 150 Federal officials, Congressional staffers, academic researchers, and industry leaders packed a room overlooking the United States Capitol...
From Putting People First
UNDP Mobile Technologies and Empowerment report
A report, recently published by UNDP, on mobile technologies and human development,
From Putting People First
M-Government
This report by Hani Eskandar (ITU), Barbara- Chiara Ubaldi (OECD) and Vyacheslav Cherkasov (UN-DESA) highlights the critical potential of mobile technologies for...
From Putting People First