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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
JC Penney and Pricing
Economist MJ Perry on the complexity and psychology of pricing. Referencing an NYT article: " ... how the “everyday low pricing” model at J.C. Penney’s seems to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling and Design
Good GigaOhm piece on sortytelling driving product design. Been in a number of design projects that have allowed us to start from simple panel, day in the life...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Kicking off a Series of Big Data Workshops
The White House will be hosting a Big Data Workshop on May 3, 2013. The workshop is sponsored by the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the NITRD Big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Diagramming Sentences and the Power of Morphology
The Language log Blog brings up diagramming sentences. Very familiar and mostly disliked activity in early education in the US. I remember being much intrigued...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ray Kurzweil's Life
In the WSJ: The intersection of the life of inventor Ray Kurzweil and health technology. Good to see. He is extrapolating some information about how life expectancy is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Organizations
Some good, very general thoughts on agile organizations and management. You are always dealing with changing context, so you have to be ready for it. But can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Tracking the VW Commercial
Sands Research provides a video of brain activation from their recent Superbowl ad study. Here the one from award winning ad: The Force by Volkswagen. Agency:...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing and Buying
Sands Research points me to a largely non technical article on their work in UK's Daily Telegraph. 'Neuromarketing': can science predict what we'll buy?Advertisers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Techniques in Sentiment Analysis
In CACM: Excellent overview piece on the subject. The abstract itself has interest: " ... Sentiment analysis (or opinion mining) is defined as the task of finding...
From CERIAS Blog
Keynote: Christopher Painter, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, U.S. Department of State (Summary)
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 Summary by Kelley Misata As Christopher Painter, Coordinator for Cyber Issues within the US Department of State, began his keynote address...
From Wild WebMink
On Joining OIN
I signed up Meshed Insights as an OIN licensee, and was amazed when I told people how few people knew it existed. That was the origin of this week’s InfoWorld column...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paper vs Screens
Sciam writes about the differences between reading on screens vs paper, provides some interesting resources, suggesting that " ... When it comes to intensivelyBut...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Software Developers – Apply to Join the White House “Hackathon” on June 1
The White House is accepting applications from software developers and hands-on technology experts to participate in a day of national service at the White House...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation
A connection pointed me to the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation lab. A very broad mix of capability areas. Reminding me of similar work at Procter & Gamble...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Illegal Squid Fishing
While we we're on the subject of squid fishing in Argentina, the country is dealing with foreign boats illegally fishing for squid inside its territorial waters...
From CERIAS Blog
Tech Talk #3: Stephen Elliot (Summary)
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 Associate Professor Stephen Elliott, Industrial Technology, Purdue University Director, Biometric Standards, Performance and Assurance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bar Code Ticker
A Wired Article reminded me of the nonprofit organization GS1, which I worked with for years. Among many other things they establish bar code standards. The work...
From CERIAS Blog
Featured Commentary: The Honorable Mark Weatherford, DHS Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity
Thursday April 4, 2013 Summary by Marquita A. Moreland During the introduction, Professor Spafford discussed Mark Weatherford's experience prior to becoming Deputy...
From CERIAS Blog
Panel 3: Security Education and Training (Panel Summary)
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 Panel Members: Diana Burley, Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Learning, George Washington University Melissa Dark, Professor...
From Computer Science Teachers Association