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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 Putting People First
Who Commits Virtual Identity Suicide?
Who Commits Virtual Identity Suicide? Differences in Privacy Concerns, Internet Addiction, and Personality Between Facebook Users and Quitters Stefan Stieger, Christoph...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rescuing Infographics or Making them right
Readers here know my impatience with what are called infographics. More set up to look graphically impressive and clever than to inform. I don't think they can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Millennial Consumer
In Time: More intent on Browsing than on Splurging?" ... The millennial generation is easily the most studied demographic since their parents, the Baby Boomers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Long Range Strategic Planning
In HBS Working Knowledge: A quick look at long range strategic planning. I say that regardless if the work is not predictive, the path to achieving it is still...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Branded Google Glass Apps
Presenting Branded Google Glass Apps. Another move forward? " ... Google Glass may have just 10,000 users, but that hasn't stopped a handful of brands from developing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Videos for My C# Class
I've been creating short videos for my honors programming class. They are short and intended for my students to use for review. I’m not saying they are great but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Office Design
Over the years have been involved in looking at office design. Sometimes leading with advanced tech design, sometimes not. Today, for the first time for a while...
From Computational Complexity
tl;dr
Every now and then we need new words and phrases come into our lexicon, like the unfortunate "twerking", but here's another "tl;dr", short for "too long; didn't...
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Why I'm Not Taking a Vacation from Facebook
The internet does not seem to like Facebook these days. Studies are coming out (for instance, this PLOS ONE study) suggesting that Facebook decreases happinesstaking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G and Predictive Analytics
Nice example of the use of Predictive analytics by my alma mater. " ... By converting to a smart building system that uses predictive analytics to detect building...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Y&R Says Consumers Lie
Not unexpected, but the details are impressive. Full presentation." Secrets & Lies Study from Y&R Revealsthe Hidden Side of Global Consumers A New Consumer Mainstream...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Wins in the New Economy
In Small Business Labs by Steve KingOutlines Who may win in the new economy.Noted economist Tyler Cowen's Who Will Prosper in the New World discusses what type...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Things
Received several offers about the Tile App. A little tag you can put on things and then track and locate with your smart phone. About $20 each. Available by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensors as Teenagers
In the Cisco Blog: An excellent piece by Bill Franks of Teradata. About the Internet of the things and how it will operate, and about the information it will ...
From Schneier on Security
Yochai Benkler on the NSA
Excellent essay: We have learned that in pursuit of its bureaucratic mission to obtain signals intelligence in a pervasively networked world, the NSA has mounted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monitoring the Future of Cloud Computing
Recorded Future uses their novel Web semantic analysis methods to look at the future of Cloud computing. Visually answering questions like: " ... As businesses...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Littlewood’s Law
Why it may take a ‘miracle’ to catch some cheaters source, where he’s right after Charles Dickens John Littlewood really existed. He appeared as second author on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle Uses Photo App
In Mobile Marketer: A cute use of photo-taking in a smartphone to build brands. A simple but a potentially useful idea. Will it usefully engage? Who will download...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hands Free Car Manual on Google Glass
Metaio's press release on their prototype augmented reality car manual, mentioned here before. I note that this was precisely the area we explored, using 3D"...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog