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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
Government Use of Hackers as an Object of Fear
Interesting article about the perception of hackers in popular culture, and how the government uses the general fear of them to push for more power: But theseoverzealous...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 April 2013
According to the daffodils in the front of the house it really is spring. A small pile of snow in my backyard is fighting but I think it is doomed to failure. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Democracy for the Little Guy
In GigaOM: It points to two items mentioned here. Intuit's pushing the idea of an era of big data for the little guy. And also data visualization techniques that...
From CERIAS Blog
On Competitions and Competence
This is a follow-up to my last post here, about the "cybersecurity profession" and education. I was moderating one of the panels at the most recent CERIAS Symposium...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hacking Design
My favorite UK correspondent points me to a BBC World News video. ' ... "Hacking" has become a little-known, but fast-developing trend in the design world, involving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Second Digital Economy
W Brian Arthur at PARC via the Santa Fe Institute , who worked with us in the 90s to look at consumer behavior complexity simulation. In a 65 minute videoSignalling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Changing View of Link Abuse
In Search Engine Watch: An instructive look at Google's changing view of link abuse. hat is, the use of links in a site that are sued to primarily influence Google's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Scientists
From the receont TDWI conference. A short video by Krish Krishnan on the need and nature of the data scientist. I agree in general, the data scientist includes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Community Managers and Equity
In Word of Mouth Marketing Blog: A resource I have just started to cover, some good thoughts about being a content and community manager. Reminds me of conversations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
User Interface and Launch
In UX Magazine: A real-life view of how a startup can be killed at launch by not paying attention to its user interface.
From Putting People First
Videos of breakout sessions at the recent Interaction13 conference in Toronto
The IxDA gathered in Toronto, Canada’s largest center for design, for its 6th annual conference. Here are the video records of the breakout talks that took place...
From Putting People First
Videos of keynotes and panel discussions at the recent Interaction13 conference in Toronto
The IxDA gathered in Toronto, Canada’s largest center for design, for its 6th annual conference. Here are the video records of the keynotes and panel discussions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sankey Diagrams for Balance Visualization
Though I had seen this form of visualization many times, I had never heard it called the Sankey Diagram. Often used for energy and resource balances. Recallstorytelling...
From Putting People First
Communicating sustainability: lessons from public health
Experts in public health have struggled with enabling behaviour change for years. The sustainability sector should learn what it can from their experiences, writes...
From Putting People First
Two recent articles from UX Magazine
Killed at Launch: A complete disregard for user experience leads to drastic action by Pete MacKie A failure to account for UX results in an e-commerce being pulled...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disruptive Innovation
Useful thoughts on the topic in a short post. And the start of a conversation: " ... What are the secrets of companies that manage to bring disruptive innovation...
From Wild WebMink
Speaking At OSCON
I’ve received confirmation this week that my talk for OSCON 2013 – entitled “Can Evil Corporations Embrace Open Source?” – has been accepted. See you there!
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Zeno Proof Paradox
Another discussion of paradoxes src Zeno of Elea was a Greek philosopher who lived almost 2400 years ago. He is famous for the creation of paradoxes at the juncture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Images in Dreams
In the Smithsonian Magazine. Apparently we can now predict to some degree what people are seeing with a combination of fMRI and EEG sensors. I observed a number...
From Schneier on Security