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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
Linkedin Moves Mobile
I have followed the flurry of updates to Linkedin mobile Apps. I do find myself using it on mobile more often, as more of my work moves there. It still hasMashable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Golden Age of Television Online
In Knowledge @ Wharton: Will the Next ‘Golden Age of Television’ Take Place Online? Good forward looking piece: As Netflix, Amazon and others transition from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Status of Text Analytics
An Update: We used it in the enterprise calling it 'content analysis'. It has evolved into something that is much easier to use and integrate with text sensors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where to Build Your Startup
Lots of interesting data about startups outside the usual places. The broad premise is that you should build your startup in Silicon Valley. Have been involved...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Store Surveillance
The idea of doing 'visual analytics', has been growing, a new effort: " ... Video analytics startup Prism Skylabs announced today that it has raised $15 million...
From Schneier on Security
Code Names for NSA Exploit Tools
This is from a Snowden document released by Le Monde: General Term Descriptions: HIGHLANDS: Collection from Implants VAGRANT: Collection of Computer Screens MAGNETIC...
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Dual Booting Ubuntu and Windows 8
This blog post commemorates the better part of a work day I spent installing a dual boot of Ubuntu Linux 13.10 and Windows 8 on my Lenovo X230 Thinkpad. I did not...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE AD Issues Letter to the Community on Resuming Operations at NSF
The Federal Government reopened on October 17, 2013. Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Computer and Information...
From Schneier on Security
Dry Ice Bombs at LAX
The news story about the guy who left dry ice bombs in restricted areas of LAX is really weird. I can't get worked up over it, though. Dry ice bombs are a harmless...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stores Tracking Phones
In Forbes: Ways to opt of being tracked in a store using your Smartphone. The obvious way is to turn off your Bluetooth and Wifi. The tracking approach is getting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Population Pattern Viewer
From RTI International: More interesting public data visualizations of economic drivers.Web-Based Map Allows Users to See Intricate Patterns in U.S. Population...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Kit
We worked with similar systems that tested RFID approaches. Kits, with all the required components, are very useful in understanding a technology space that includes...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Workshop on Opportunities in Robotics, Automation, and Computer Science
Manufacturing currently comprises about 12% of the US GDP — roughly 1.8 trillion USD. Although there is a perception (and some truth) to the fact that manufacturing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Invents a Plastic
Nice example of innovation in the enterprise, in an area not associated with the big CPG enterprise, but essential to its operation. Estimates of $1 Billion a...
From Schneier on Security
Can I Be Trusted?
SlashDot asks the question: I'm a big fan of Bruce Schneier, but just to play devil's advocate, let's say, hypothetically, that Schneier is actually in cahoots...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Closing the Gender Gap in Computer Science infographic
I get email about posting things to my blog pretty regularly. Often the items have little or no relevance to my usual topics and I ignore them. Sometimes they are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiny Games
We also experimented with what we called micro games, to engage people that visited a web site. But also to get consumers to solve little problems, trading small...
From Schneier on Security
Defending Against Crypto Backdoors
We already know the NSA wants to eavesdrop on the Internet. It has secret agreements with telcos to get direct access to bulk Internet traffic. It has massive systems...
From Putting People First
How teachers in Africa are failed by mobile learning
Only projects that work with existing education systems will improve learning and cut poverty, says Niall Winters of the London Knowledge Lab at the University...
From Putting People First