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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
Celebrate HER
Serena and I were nominated for Celebrate HER.Celebrate HER is an Ottawa-based gender inclusive non-profit organization. Our vision is to facilitate greater social...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 27
February 29 Hearing: The Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Will Use More Analytics
Did you know that CPG giant Procter & Gamble is planning to quadruple their business analytics resources, despite decreasing their spending in many other areas?...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Right Data
I am a proponent of getting a handle on big data via transformation, be it data management, analytical models or visualization means. But more important is getting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Smart Systems, Medicine the Focus of Recent Challenges
In recent weeks, open innovation company InnoCentive has launched a pair of competitions with significant R&D questions requiring advances in computing. One is...
From Putting People First
And the Oscar goes to: Interaction
[Guest post by Jan-Christoph Zoels, senior-partner of Experientia] Avoiding one of the shortcomings of Oscar ceremonies, the international jury of the first Interaction...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 February 2012
The highlight of this past week for me was taking part in the CSTA CS & IT conference program committee meeting. The agenda should be available soon once some final...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 February 2012
The highlight of this past week for me was taking part in the CSTA CS & IT conference program committee meeting. The agenda should be available soon once some final...
From Schneier on Security
U.S. Federal Court Rules that it is Unconstitutional for the Police to Force Someone to Decrypt their Laptop
A U.S. Federal Court aruled that it is unconstitutional for the police to force someone to decrypt their laptop computer: Thursday
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Fast and Slow
I have been making my way through Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow for the last few months. This is very well worth reading. I do wish there was moreFreeman...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Science of Religion
A few years ago I had the chance to look at data that linked cognitive science, specifically brain scanning, and spirituality. Now there is a journal for this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Roomba Maker Takes on Healthcare
Good idea, the Japanese have been looking such care systems for years.Health care and robotics: " ... iRobot partners with InTouch Health to develop new generation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Ethics in Branding
Ethics in branding. Like ethics in advertising or merchandising, always debatable. Everything we do has an element of influencing, so where is the limit?
From My Biased Coin
Technology Diffusion (Guest Post from Zhenming Liu)
My student, Zhenming Liu, writes about some of his recent work:Sharon Goldberg and I recently submitted a paper about technology diffusion in the context of communication...
From Wild WebMink
IPEG-SA Announces Tapeworm Licensing
Following news that MPEG-LA have generously offered to sell patent licenses to implementers of the latest 3D-capable video standard, MVC, the world’s tapeworms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Quadrupling Analytics Needs
Did you know that CPG giant Procter & Gamble is planning to quadruple their business analytics resources, despite decreasing their spending in many other areas?...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Influence Group
Recently encountered:Digital Influence Group. We are a diverse mix of digital marketing and media strategists, research and data analytics experts, creative interactive...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AFOSR Spring Review Announced
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has announced plans for its annual Spring Review, featuring work funded by AFOSR over the past year, as well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensory Signals
Brands getting Physical to build trust, by Martin Lindstrom. In our own experiments we discovered that tactile signals were more engaging than digital screens.
From Schneier on Security