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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
Shiny Packages
Dan Ariely on the effect of packaging design on choice. Good exploration based on eye tracking research. " ... when making such simple choices, consumers can...
From Computational Complexity
STOC 2012 accepts are posted
STOC 2012 paper accepts are posted here. Travel support for grad students (which I am involved with) is posted here. On a quick glance: I tried counting thehere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing Relevant KPI's
A slide show in Information Management that has some useful information. Though this contains useful information, it is also an example of how the style of information...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Ups and the Downs
Why does it always feel as thought we are moving one step forward and two steps back? After holding an annual summer camp in January (Yes, here in New Zealand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Activating Brand Advocates
In Chief Marketer. Thoughts on how to activate your brand advocates. For years I saw apathy to this idea in the enterprise. No more.
From Putting People First
Dan Lockton on behavioural heuristics
Behavioural change researcher Dan Lockton discusses an approach which has emerged out of some of the ethnographic work he has been doing for the Empower project...
From Putting People First
User Interface is the next battlefield in consumer electronics
User Interface (UI) is the next battlefield in consumer electronics and, as products mature, the race to differentiate based on the UI will accelerate. Rather than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Packaging Design
Thoughts on packaging design from a recent conference. " ... "Packaging is the number one medium to communicate the brand," said Michael Okoroafor, VP global packaging...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Key Imagine Cup 2012 Dates Approaching
Randy Guthrie wrote a long information packed post about Key Imagine Cup 2012 Dates Approaching in the very near future. If you or your students are entering the...
From My Biased Coin
Class Size Incentives
There's an interesting story in today's Crimson about a possible rise in "limited enrollment" classes at Harvard. (See this older Crimson article as well.) There...
From Wild WebMink
Eolas Verdict A Hollow Victory
With news breaking that apparently Eolas decade-plus attempt to tax innovation on the internet is finally over, I look at the context and find myself lacking reassurance...
From Schneier on Security
Securing iPads for Exams
Interesting blog post about locking down an iPad so students can take exams on them.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of Whorfian Economists?
I have always been intrigued by the Whorfian hypothesis. The idea that different human languages strongly affect our thinking styles, communication capabilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Democratization of Data Science
As I start a study of the democratization of data, and of the Wolfram Alpha Pro release I also see a very on point post by Stephen Wolfram: Launching a Democratization...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Announces New Policy-Focused Internship Program
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hello From Texas
You may have noticed I haven
From My Biased Coin
Citation Circles on FSP
Sorry I haven't blogged much. Life's been busy. But here's an interesting post by FemaleScienceProfessor discussing the appearance of "citation circles", people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speaking Out
In the WSJ: Why people fail to speak up in various contexts. We examined this in focus group settings. I see it in myself in very specific group contexts....
From The Eponymous Pickle