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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 Schneier on Security
Air Gaps
Since I started working with Snowden's documents, I have been using a number of tools to try to stay secure from the NSA. The advice I shared included using Tor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's Innovation Success Rate
I was reminded by a correspondent of these resources on innovation success rate: A video on the subject. and the 2011 HBR article: How P&G Tripled its Innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IDEO Design Apps
I had heard of this before and reported on it, but never experimented with it. This is a reminder to give it a try. We used IDEO for consumer creativity lab development...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Proving Cook’s Theorem
Another proof idea using finite automata Steve Cook proved three landmark theorems with 1971 dates. The first has been called a “surprising theorem”: that any deterministic...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Standardize Your (CS) World
Standardize Your (CS) World Anyone even remotely connected with K-12 education knows the pervasive emphasis on standards in the education world today. One huge...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robotics Roadmap is now on the Road!
The National Robotics Initiative (NRI) Principal Investigator meeting showcased an amazing collection of new ideas and technologies developed by over 200 of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotions of Shopper Behavior
It has been a known for a long time that emotions are powerful drivers of shopping behavior. Good piece. Supermarket News writes: " ... Shopper Intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Game About Type
An intriguing idea. A game that is about type fonts. Typography. For a small charge, have not tried it yet. " ... "Type:Rider" Is The Ultimate Video Game about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kellogg and Mobile Loyalty
A straightforward approach. A many product CPG assortment to address. But will this work or contribute to the yet another loyalty systems effect?" ... Kellogg's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinvent the to Do List
In the HBR Blog: I have now used at least a dozen methods of simplifying reminding myself and others what we need to get done. Bottom line is that simple works...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking Taiwan's Digital ID
There's a serious random-number generation flaw in the cryptographic systems used to protect the Taiwanese digital ID. Article and paper.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Chemistry, Computer Science and the Nobel Prize
There is no Nobel Prize in Computer Science. We do have the Turing Award which is as close as we get. It’s not as well known as the Nobel Prize though so when scientists...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Why are we still geeks? Correcting media images of Computer Science / GHC13
Maria Klawe (Harvey Mudd College, far left), Brenda Laurel (Purple Moon, far right), and Kim Surkan (MIT) gave an insightful panel about the images of geeks in ...
From Computational Complexity
Shut Down
The NSF core proposal in theoretical computer science, or Algorithmic Foundations as the NSF calls it hs three deadlines this academic year: Medium proposals (...
From Schneier on Security
A New Postal Privacy Product
The idea is basically to use indirection to hide physical addresses. You would get a random number to give to your correspondents, and the post office would use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does Watching TV Mean Today?
In the WSJ: " ... In Digital Era, What Does 'Watching TV' Even Mean? ... Study Suggests More Time Spent on Smartphones, Computers, Tablets Than Television. ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Center for Business Analytics Short Courses
The Center for Business Analytics in the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati is introducing a set of short courses on specialized...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry Awarded for Computer Modeling of Chemical Processes
Today (October 9, 2013), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Martin Karplus of Harvard University and the Universite...
From The Eponymous Pickle