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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Round Up of Student Technology Competitions 2013
I’ve written about a number of technology competitions and award programs for students in the last month or so. I thought that a single post on them might be useful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
After the Design of Everyday Things
We interacted with designer Don Norman a few times, author of the ground breaking Design of Everyday Things. This new interview in GigaOM relates well what he...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baby Name Voyager Visualization Again
Some time ago, for a problem we were working on for visualizing initiative data, we looked at the work of Martin Wattenberg. Probably most famous is his Baby Name...
From Schneier on Security
Paradoxes of Big Data
Interesting paper: "Three Paradoxes of Big Data," by Neil M. Richards and Jonathan H. King, Stanford Law Review Online, 2013. Abstract: Big data is all the rage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Small Data in Big Data
In Computing Now: Video. Small Data in Big Data — Ayse Bener, Ryerson University. From data to knowledge, and leveraging the knowledge to decision. " ... As...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moose Mobility for CPG Sales Solutions
Spoke today with MooseMobility. An acronym forMobile Out-of-Stock Ordering Sales Electronic Application. " ... Enabling Solutions for your Mobile Sales Force...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Khan Academy and Bank of America
Saw a commercial for this service the other day. Financial training from the Kahn Academy sponsored by the Bank of America. A partnership. A nice idea. IfWhat...
From Putting People First
Mobile mastery
Lauren Pope of Nokia writes that there are three things to think about if you want your devices and your brain to sing in unison: mindfulness, attention and metacognition...
From Putting People First
Simon Roberts (EPIC chair) reflects on Big Data, business and ethnography
Simon Roberts, the highly engaging, smart and easily approachable chair of the EPIC conference last week, was so absorbed with all the logistics that he didn’t...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Sensing Real Time Demand
Press release. Have not examined this yet, but it is of interest. SAP was looking at this forecasting direction over a decade ago. The question always arises...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Customer Segmentation
And the further development of customer segmenation. " ... Customer Segmentation Moves into the Fast Lane ... It is a common marketing dilemma: Companies know...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytic Evolution of R
Have had a number of talks with industry leader about R and its potential. At least they have heard of it now, but are still nervous about how it fits into their...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Alessandro Acquisti speaking at next Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour
In 2011, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created the Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour (WATCH), a series of thought-provoking talks by innovative...
From Schneier on Security
Good Summary of Potential NSA Involvement in a NIST RNG Standard
Kim Zetter has written the definitive story -- at least so far -- of the possible backdoor in the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator that's part of the NIST SP800...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Verizon App Challenge - for middle and high school students
This was posted to the AP Computer Science mailing list. I thought it was worth posting here for people not on that list. Looks interesting. Introducing the Second...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Sometimes You Have to Slow Down
I was helping a student today and realized that he’d been “lost” for a while. I was going pretty quickly and everyone seemed to be keeping up just fine. Not this...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Library of Congress Announces New Mobile App for Braille and Audio Books
The Library of Congress announced today that its Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) system is going mobile with an app for Apple devices now available for...
From Computational Complexity
Crystal Math- What NUMB3RS and BREAKING BAD both get wrong
The TV show Numb3rs had as a premise that a GENIUS mathematician could help solve crimes. Is this true? I rather doubt you need a GENIUS- though of course some...
From Apophenia
eyes on the street or creepy surveillance?
This summer, with NSA scandal after NSA scandal, the public has (thankfully) started to wake up to issues of privacy, surveillance, and monitoring. We are living...
From Computer Science Teachers Association