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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
Creativity Challenges from IDEO
In the HBR: From a group we used a number of times. For more on that click on the IDEO tag below. We practiced by setting up context creating locations. For...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Army Powerpoint vs Tableau
When I first read this I thought this it gave the impression that Tableau and Powerpoint were competing for the same purpose. I see them having the same operational...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Getting Ready for Big Data
Whether you are or will be teaching Exploring Computer Science (ECS) or Computer Science Principles (CSP), the topic of data will begin to permeate your course....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Teachers–Please help evaluate HoC Tutorials
I'm passing this along for Code.org who I am helping organize tutorials for an Hour of Code during CS education week. We need help evaluating the tutorials we have...
From Schneier on Security
Why the Government Should Help Leakers
In the Information Age, it's easier than ever to steal and publish data. Corporations and governments have to adjust to their secrets being exposed, regularly. ...
From Putting People First
Medical advice just a touch away with smartphone apps
Devices once only in the hands of doctors, such as heart or blood pressure monitors, are now in the pockets of consumers, putting them in charge of their health...
From Putting People First
‘Why newsrooms need anthropologists’
Journalism and anthropology both purport to observe and analyse human behaviour and experience, albeit in different ways and over extremely divergent timescales...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hour of Code tutorials are ready to try
Received this update email from Code.org last night. Looks like an Hour of Code for CS Education week is getting real! And of course it is getting close. Now though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mistakes Made in Machine Learning
These are some of the best known examples of mistakes often made in machine learning i.e. predictive analytics projects. Well stated, the examples are good,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
November Analytics Magazine: Text Analytics
The Informs Outreach magazine this month has as its emphasis text analytics. Always interesting, business solution oriented, not heavily technical. I read every...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Making Magic With Software
My friend and fellow teacher Tom Indelicato and I are teaching a new course this year. We are calling to Explorations in Computer Science and it is patterned somewhat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Views from Our Top Shopper Scientist
Colleague and correspondent Herb Sorensen writes about the shopper from the view of a scientist. He helped us formulate some of the key concepts we used in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Taking Over
Are we making it too easy for machines to take over? In ReadwriteWeb. Do we see early symptoms when we listen for every smartphone ring? I have been reading...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Who plays nice? Who plays rough?
I have a confession to make. I am one of these people who can’t watch a TV show like Games of throne because there is too much evil. In fact, I generally cringe...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
In Praise Of Chalk Talks
Chalking up a terrific talk on bit compression Winsor McCay was a cartoonist and animator in the early part of the twentieth century, and authored the comic strip...
From Computational Complexity
A Theorist Goes to SOSP
Monday I attended the 24th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, the lead conference for computer systems research. Why would a nice theorist go to SOSP? Trying...
From Schneier on Security
Risk-Based Authentication
I like this idea of giving each individual login attempt a risk score, based on the characteristics of the attempt: The risk score estimates the risk associated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Social Science
A number of interesting items in the Edge about the implications of new models, and most notable to me the implications of Big Data, for social science. Social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wix as Easy Internet Presence
After mentioning the startup Waze, recently acquired by Google, I was sent a note to take a look at the startup Wix. I was intrigued by their description of it...
From The Eponymous Pickle