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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
Wikipedia: Good Faith Collaboration?
Cory Doctorow review of Joseph Reagle Jr's Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. Many people now depend on Wikipedia for better or worse. How does...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Group Dynamics Killing Innovation
Provocative thoughts, from Knowledge@Wharton: " ... To come up with the next iPad or Amazon, the pacesetters of the future need solitary brainstorming time, according...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and Teradata
Wal-Mart enhances its data warehouse agreement with Teradata. In Consumer Goods Technology.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value Creation
From Bain & Company's newsletter: Value creation becomes more important than ever by Bain partners Alan Hirzel, Charles Tillen and senior director of Bain's private...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics Improving Egg Safety
A short piece on the increasing use of robotics for egg handling and examination, leading to fewer damage problems.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Music as a Gateway to AI
Does avant garde music provide a gateway to artificial intelligence?
From Wild WebMink
? Bite-Size Privacy and Anonymity
A discussion broke out on Identi.ca recently where it became clear that the distinction between anonymity and privacy is not clear for some people. It led to the...
From Schneier on Security
Recording the Police
I've written a lot on the "War on Photography," where normal people are harassed as potential terrorists for taking pictures of things in public. This article...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Pushing Game Narratives Beyond Linearity
I remember a student telling me the other week that she thought writing stories for games was easy, and wondered if there were jobs doing that. I had been giving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Touts Predictive Analytics
Having worked in this area for years, I have to agree. The emergence of search has sometimes inappropriately substituted fast and easy for 'right'. Good article...
From Schneier on Security
Book Review: Cyber War
Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to do About It by Richard Clarke and Robert Knake, HarperCollins, 2010. Cyber War is a fast and enjoyable...
From Putting People First
A rich trove of articles in UX Magazine
A rich trove of articles in UX Magazine: The importance of designing an experience culture By Cynthia Thomas / December 20th 2010 The outward focus on developing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How not to teach programming
Through the wonders of DZone I came across a blog post called Don't teach like you code. The target audience seems to be professional coders who are teaching beginners...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook vs Twitter Infographic
Colleague Stan Dyck sends along an infographic from digital surgeons of statistics about Facebbok versus Twitter in 2010. Nicely done. It catches your attention...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle's Lok towards Health
Nestle looks at deeper, health related aspects of food science. Good detailed article in the WSJ.
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Failure of Social Media
GigaOm on the failure of social media campaigns. I agree that it is far to early to predict when these campaigns will succeed or fail. Some good directional thoughts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sharing Your Car
In another innovative personal transportation market, reported in Wired, you can share your car for cash. : " ... RelayRides lets car owners set their own rates...
From Schneier on Security
Computational Forensics
Interesting article from IEEE Spectrum: During two years of deliberation by the National Academy's forensic science committee (of which I was a member), a troubling...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Learn C# Programing in a Social Gaming Environment
Check out Pex for Fun (http://bit.ly/PexLearn) for a challenging and engaging way for students to practice their programming skills. Pex for Fun enables programming...
From Computational Complexity