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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
An uplifting experience – the ethnography of the elevator user experience
Rebekah Rousi, a researcher of user psychology and PhD candidate of Cognitive Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, describes on EthnographyMatters how...
From Putting People First
Why data without soul is meaningless
As we move towards a quantified society, one shaped by data, we start to dismiss things that are unquantified, writes Om Malik of GigaOm. Empathy, emotion and storytelling...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education and New York City
I’ve been following CS education events in my old home of New York City from a distance with great interest. As the song says if you can make it in New York you...
From Putting People First
The hidden biases in Big Data
Data and data sets are not objective, writes Kate Crawford, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, in the Harvard Business Review. They are creations of human...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
We need to get a lot better at imagining the future
We live in an era of fast changes. Ten years ago, YouTube was unthinkable, social media did not exist (Facebook was founded in 2004), we got our movies on tapes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Core of a Big Data Analytics Strategy
Big Data analytics strategy. Still think there is too much being said here, with not enough substance. Its the same problem we worked with many years ago. And...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Long Data
In Wired: When I first saw this headline, I thought, Oh, Longitudinal data. Which means you follow one agent or actor in a system and get data about them over...
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On the Importance of Seemingly Useless Work
When I first started graduate school, an older student told me about the importance of maintaining a feeling of incremental progress. Even if you are doing seemingly...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Book Explores the P-NP Problem
The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible, written by CCC Council and CRA board member, Lance Fortnow is now available. The inspiration for the...
From Schneier on Security
Sixth Movie-Plot Threat Contest
It's back, after a two-year hiatus. Terrorism is boring; cyberwar is in. Cyberwar, and its kin: cyber Pearl Harbor, cyber 9/11, cyber Armageddon. (Or make up...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
We Are the World
There have been several posts to this Advocate Blog that chat about the lack of diversity in computer science classes and STEM related fields. Quoting from Deborah...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Interstellar Quantum Computation
Proof from the Chelyabinsk bolide fragment source Viktor Grokhovsky is a member of the Russian Academy of Science’s Committee on Meteorites. He is on the faculty...
From Computational Complexity
A nice case of interdisciplinary research
All of the math and history in this post is elaborated on in my paper here. Are there any interesting applications of PURE math to the Social Sciences or History...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing and SEO
Interesting claim about Search engine optimization (SEO): " ... In the past year, Google has revolutionized the game of SEO with a series of updates known as “Penguin...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 April 2013
It’s April First which means both the real and virtual worlds will be filled with jokes and tricks and attempts to fool people. No jokes here though. I find most...
From Schneier on Security
What I've Been Thinking About
I'm starting to think about my next book, which will be about power and the Internet -- from the perspective of security. My objective will be to describe current...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Password Ring
A USB device meant to replace a password. Simple idea to use the form of a ring. We do need something new. " ... As part of research into doing away with typed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Software
I have had cause to take a look at the latest version of Tabeau Software's approach to visualization. In particular how it can be used with large columnar databases...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Huxley vs Orwell
Or 1984 vs Brave new World and Amusing ourself to death. I remember the hoopla when 1984 rolled around, and we apparently had not driven ourselves to those lows...
From Putting People First