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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
Millennials and Their Devices
In Clomedia. Good piece. It has long been suggested that new generations are so used to new tech that they don't need to adapt to it at all. Often touted as ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Homes Need Eyes
This GigaOM article comes to the same conclusion we did, that truly smart homes need to have integrated cameras, multiple sensors, with high speed image analysis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP, SAS and Big Data Analytics
Was an early user of SAS, but it has been a number of years now. A move to Big Data partnership with SAP: Nearly every major server vendor is a SAP HANA partner...
From Putting People First
New York Times book review of “Status Update”
Putting People First has been following the work of Alice E. Marwick for a while, first when she published her PhD dissertation, then when her book “Status Update”...
From Putting People First
Publication: Smart Citizens (by FutureEverything)
Smart Citizens Edited by Drew Hemment and Anthony Townsend Future Everything 2013, 96 pages This publication aims to shift the debate on the future of cities towards...
From Putting People First
Book: Social – Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect by Matthew D. Lieberman Crown October 2013, 384 pages [Amazon link] Abstract In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew...
From Putting People First
Book: Smarter Than You Think
Smarter Than You Think How Technology Is Changing Our Minds For the Better by Clive Thompson and Jeff Cummings Penguin Press September 2013, 352 pages [Penguin...
From Putting People First
How technology changes storytelling
Long New York Times piece where writers in a variety of genres tell us what new technologies mean for storytelling. Contributions by Margaret Atwood, Charles Yu...
From Putting People First
Book: The App Generation
The App Generation How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World Howard Gardner and Katie Davis Yale University Press October...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transferring online Book Notes to Twitter
Here experimenting with taking a highlighted portion of a book in kindle and transferring the highlights and notes to a twitter stream, sharing my comments and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategy Arts
A couple of other pieces from Mckinsey on Strategy: On mastering its building blocks, an the art of strategy. In the enterprise strategic planning always seemed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Launching a Data MOOC
Google on Launching an Analytics MOOC and Taking Data-Driven Actions " ... Analytics. It could be the deepest, darkest mystery in your organization, served up by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Data Science Workflow
Phillip Guo on Data Science Workflow: Well worth examining: " ... Engineering the Success of Software Development I now realize that data scientists are oneThis...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What caught my attention lately: Jeff Bezos on what innovators need: "A willingness to fail. A willingness to be misunderstood. And maintaining a childlike wonder...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 8-Foot Giant Squid Pillow
Make your own 8-foot giant squid pillow. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
A Template for Reporting Government Surveillance News Stories
This is from 2006 -- I blogged it here -- but it's even more true today. Under a top secret program initiated by the Bush Administration after the Sept. 11 attacks...
From Schneier on Security
Reading Group at Harvard Law School
In Spring Semester, I'm running a reading group -- which seems to be a formal variant of a study group -- at Harvard Law School on "Security, Power, and the Internet...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Internet Policy Task Force Seeks Public Comments on “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy” Report
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force invites public comments on its report, “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Debugging Student Code
I confess that I love to debug code. I think I’d rather fix broken code and remove bugs than write original code from scratch. All that set up and stuff is tedious...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM