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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
On the IFuture of Money
CW post on the future of money, reporting on a conference in Geneva and a presentation being given on the evolution of Smartphones being used for payment. A favorite...
From Schneier on Security
The Ineffectiveness of Vague Security Warnings
From Slate: We do nothing, first and foremost, because there is nothing we can do. Unless the State Department gets specific
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Internet of Internal Organs
How about giving your heart and other organs their own IP address? In the CACM from New Scientist: Body Organs Can Send Status Updates to Your Cellphone.
From The Eponymous Pickle
SaaS Sales Models
On varying sales models for software as a service ." ... One of the commonly accepted myths of the Software as a Service (SaaS) market and the broader cloud computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurophone
It is inevitable that we see closer people-machine interfaces, what will the implications be? More interruptions than we have today? In Nick Carr's Roughtype:"New...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Trial Breaks D.C. Internet Voting System
Sounds like it was easy: Last week, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics opened a new Internet-based voting system for a weeklong test period, inviting computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Small Basic Curriculum
Small Basic is, in my opinion, one of the really cool platforms for introducing programming to younger students. A simple IDE, a simple subset of BASIC, and built...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kotex Launch Driven by Social Media
A CPG case study of a new product launch" ... Kimberly-Clark and Organic collaborated on perhaps the most successful CPG launch of the year with the debut of U...
From The Eponymous Pickle
My Body, My Data, My Health
Mark Montgomery of Kyield issues a post entitled: Americans must Unite: My Body, my Data, my Health. About the increasing complexity of the health care system. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bowls of Learning
From the Google research blog. An overview of a technical paper that talks about one of the fundamental aspects of artificial intelligence: Machine Learning. Google...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When Automating Analytics Works
Fairly obvious paper, but useful thoughts. I think its always useful to think about where analytics exists within the process and considering its time dynamics. ...
From Computational Complexity
Noble and Ig Noble Prizes
What is the Ig Nobel prize? To quote the website: The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are...
From Putting People First
Donald Norman on design without designers
In his latest Core77 contribution, the acclaimed Donald Norman reflects on the role of testing versus creativity in design and innovation. “There is a trend to...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
HCI Track at Grace Hopper
From the Communications of ACM blog:The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing had two special technical tracks added to the program this year: open source...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Research Visions at OSDI
The CCC is interested in stimulating the development of new research visions and challenges. To do so, the CCC has been collaborating with conferences in computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Analytics
Had not heard of the term specifically before, but there is also deep analytics. I know what it is, practiced it for years, new term for me: " ... One term for...
From Schneier on Security
The Politics of Allocating Homeland Security Money to States
From the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: "Politics or Risks? An Analysis of Homeland Security Grant Allocations to the States." Abstract...
From Schneier on Security