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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
ANOVA Testing in Excel
Did not know you could do Analysis of Variance, ANOVA, stat testing in Excel, but here is an outline of how to do it. Good explanation of the method and it's uses...
From Schneier on Security
Orange Balls as an Anti-Robbery Device
In Japan: These balls full of orange paint are anti-theft devices. When someone robs a store, the clerk can throw the ball at the perp (or at the perp's feet)...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Preparing for the New School Year
I usually devote a portion of my summer vacation preparing for the next school year. I use my summer break to attend at least one professional development workshop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Movies
In Gizmodo, an article about how a number are using neuromarketing methods to predict how people react to movies. In particular the use of fMRI methods. It is very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Cleese on Creativity
Some of you may have followed John Cleese's business videos. Here is new video excerpt on creativity. His presentations are always fun. From Presentation Zen: ...
From Putting People First
Vodafone
The Future Agenda, sponsored by Vodafone, is a not-for-profit, cross-discipline programme which aims “to unite the best minds from around the globe to address the...
From Wild WebMink
? Will Run And Run
FSF responds to Oracle v. Google and the threat of software patents “Google could have avoided all this by building Android on top of IcedTea, a GPL-covered Java...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Videos from KYield
Mark Montgomery of Kyield has added some video clips, linked to below, to explain his impressive plans to support the knwoledge worker. "Videos
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How I Wound Up in Computer Science
The Computer Science Women blog (http://www.compsciwoman.com/ and on Twitter @Compsciwoman) has been running a series of posts by women detailing how they found...
From Putting People First
Don Norman: Living with Complexity (book)
Living with Complexity Norman, Donald A MIT Press, October 2010 280 pages Amazon If only today
From The Noisy Channel
David Petrou Presents Google Goggles at NY Tech Meetup
Image recognition is one of those problems that has presented long-standing challenges to computer scientists, despite being taken for granted by science fiction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dashboard Solutions: Gartner Research
Via IBM/Cognos. Registration required, access here. Despite some of the criticism of the format, I think that the use of dashboard as a modular component of business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decoding Words from Brain Signals
In the ACM and From the University of Utah: Scientists Decode Words from Brain Signals. A development that takes the granularity of understanding the brain to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Lights Turns off the Lights
Carpe Diem points us to the unintended consequences of green legislation. Incandescent bulbs will no longer be legal by 2014. The replacement CFLs are mostly manufactured...
From Computational Complexity
The Rubik's Cube Conjecture PROVEN! (Do we care?)
In 1994 Fermat's last theorem was proven! In 2003 Poincare's conjecture was proven! In 2010 the Rubik Cube Conjecture was proven! That is, it was shown that the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailnet Group in India
I recently had a conversation with Keith Anderson of the Retailnet Group. We worked with them a few years ago. He is now just back from India where he did an excellent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Many Careers?
Appropriate for post labor day. How many careers does the average person have in a lifetime? Seven is often mentioned, and I have used that approximation in anIn...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CompSci Woman: Technology is Women's Work
Have you seen the new CompSci Woman blog yet? No? Well get over there and check it out! And better yet, if you happen to be female and have any kind of computer...
From Wild WebMink