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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 …![[Book] The Moment of Clarity](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] The Moment of Clarity
The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems by Christian Madsbjerg, Mikkel Rasmussen Harvard Business Review Press...
From Putting People First
[Book] The City as Interface
The City as Interface How New Media Are Changing the City By Martijn de Waal nai010 Publishers 2014, 208 pages Digital and mobile media are changing the way urban...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Packaging Innovation
Interesting viewpoint piece on innovation in packaging in CPG. Understanding the context and consumer behavior interacting with packaging is a key function of"...
From Schneier on Security
ENTOURAGE: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: ENTOURAGE (S//SI//REL) Direction Finding application operating on the HOLLOWPOINT...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Announces New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes
This week, President Barack Obama announced two new public-private Manufacturing Innovation Institutes and launched the first of four new Manufacturing Innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New in Business Intelligence
GigaOM writes about new things in BI, a renaissance it implies. At least from the perspective of a VC. Ok, lots there I had not heard of, and the descriptions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Mainstream Internet of Things
In MIIT Technology Review: Short piece on the mainstreaming of the IOT. I agree, starting in areas were sensors are needed to monitor and look for outliers. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocery Bag as an Indicator
In HBS Working Knowledge: An interesting example. But also an example of lack of actual causality in an indicator as well. Still useful for understanding the multiple...
From Putting People First
What the tech business hasn’t yet grasped about human nature
Genevieve Bell, Intel’s in-house anthropologist, sees constants in our behavior that could mean big bucks for businesses that find a way to capitalize on them....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering(CISE) will hold a one-day CAREER proposal writing workshop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fraud Detection Using Big Data
Using Big Data to Prevent Fraud: A fairly obvious application when you start to gather lots of operational data. See Zylab. " ... When it comes to data that...
From Schneier on Security
DDoSing a Cell Phone Network
Interesting research: Abstract: The HLR/AuC is considered to be one of the most important network elements of a 3G network. It can serve up to five million subscribers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Code Hunt
Gamification of learning is quite the big deal these days. While there is not unanimous agreement and unambiguous evidence that it works in all cases there is some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing a Conditional Probability
This is a visual simulation of conditional probability. The description at the link is quite technical and mathematical, but the visual simulation there provides...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Value of Business Simulation
If you could only understand how your business would operate before making changes? All business is based on prediction. You predict you will make money under...
From Schneier on Security
EBSR: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: EBSR (S//SI//REL) Multi-purpose, Pico class, tri-band active GSM base station...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Destroying Online Reputation
An area we looked at in the early days of the Wikipedia. Now becoming considerably more sophisticated. From The Intercept: A number of documents extracted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Robotics
Ray Kurzweil on the rise of robotics. With much about the need for artificial intelligence to support them.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trends in Visualization
In Computing Now: Trends in visualization. Including but beyond what would usually call data visualization. It is good to make the distinction. " ... For this...
From Apophenia