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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Are Stereotypes Keeping Women Away From Science?
I received a link to the following infographic in honour of this week's Computer Science Education Week. It's about women in STEM in general, but has some interesting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science Education Week is Here and the President is Getting the Word Out!
Today, December 9, 2013, is Grace Murray Hopper’s Birthday (she would be 107 years old) and the beginning of Computer Science Education Week. These events are...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Day of Trustworthiness: Festschrift for Fred Schneider
On December 5, 2013, the computer science department at Cornell University, along with Google and Microsoft, sponsored the Fred B. Schneider Symposium on Trustworthiness...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping Pattern Tracking
In the WSJ: (May require registration) An area we experimented with for some time. Determining shopper behavior. Not necessarily tracking personal information...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 December 2013
Today is Grace Hopper’s birthday. An amazing woman I was fortunate enough to meet while in college and hear speak several times during my career. It’s also part...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Let's Hope Computer Science Education Week is an Impetus for Congress to Act
Editor's Note: One CSTA helped to launch CSEdWeek in 2009, our hope was that it would grow into an annual campaign that attracted partners and supporters from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Software Reports
Tableau reports that Tableau is tops in business intelligence. I have used them since nearly their beginning, and I agree they are very good. But they do have...
From Apophenia
how “context collapse” was coined: my recollection
Various academic folks keep writing to me asking me if I coined “context collapse” and so I went back in my record to try to figure it out. I feel the need to offer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Paper
A new paper.li of interest: Neurmarketing by Daniel Ladieu. Neuromarketing and associated interest in its hype cycle has increased sharply of late. Includes some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Marketing Turns to Storytelling
A recent interest through a startup. So what can be done to create a story? Contructing ideal template and storyboards? Modern advertising has always been...
From Putting People First
Robert Fabricant on scaling your UX strategy
Leading businesses like Google are exploring scalable strategies that make UX relevant to engineers and MBAs across their organizations. Robert Fabricant has posted...
From Putting People First
Britain’s Ministry of Nudges
The title of this New York Times article sounds like a Monty Python sketch (intentionally, I guess). But the article is luckily quite a lot more serious, exploring...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Computing at Intel
Wave fingers, making faces: The future of computing at Intel, from CNET Mobile. We had early connections with Intel Corp at our innovation Centers, including...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Principal Components Analysis in R
Principal Components Analysis and other Factor Analysis tools came up in a recent discussion. Here a discussion in Linkedin about such capabilities in R. Good...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Government Data Visualization
Interesting work at the MIT Media Lab, where we were members for years. This looks like a good approach to examine further as a means of democratizing data. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Explaining Hadoop: (More about How)
In Forbes: Hadoop came some time after I had the role, but I was often called upon to provide a minimally technical explanation of new Tech. Here is a good one...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Are You Looking Forward to Hour of Code?
After my last blog piece, I got to work on my Hour of Code activity. I was trying to decide where to hold an Hour of Code activity and who to invite. After much...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uptalking for Affirmation is Spreading
When we seek affirmation we have our spoken sentences rise in frequency towards their conclusion. We experimented with the idea for analyzing 800 line callsIn ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata Blogs
Recently had cause to take a look at Teradata. I revisited their set of blogs, which cover database, big data and analytics topics. Paying good attention to innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle