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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
Computers that Can Teach Themselves
Machine learning is a favorite topic in AI. We did that in a simple form in what was called case based reasoning. But who directs learning? Can a machine create...
From Putting People First
Human-centred systems innovation
How do we help or support people that live in situations that do not fit into a system’s categories, e.g. by transforming perceptions of what a system can be? This...
From Schneier on Security
Our Internet Surveillance State
I'm going to start with three data points. One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. governmentaccessed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 March 2013
I’ll getting my feet under me again lately. I’m catching up on grading for one thing. And lesson planning and trying to have a life away from the computer. Having...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Black Holes of Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: Some cautionary thoughts about black holes of innovation. " ... Over the past few years, companies let go large numbers of research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Asset Failure
Always good question to ask. How can I accurately predict system failure and prepare for it? Especially when failure is rare? Failures can often cascade. WeNow...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
HTML and Computer Science
It started innocently enough as Twitter conversations are want to do. Eric Williams, a school superintendent in Virginia, posted a tweet about computer scienceHTML...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Compost Analytics for the City
This is a classic example of vehicle routing using analytics. I have worked on problems as disparate as ambulance routing in semi rural counties and routing log...
From Wild WebMink
Tina Dico at Union Chapel
Tina Dico at Union Chapel, originally uploaded by webmink. We had an evening out last night in London at Union Chapel, an excellent venue for acoustic gigs. We...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Analytics Book
A review of recent book Business Analytics: A Practitioner's Guide (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) by Rahul Saxena and Anand...
From Putting People First
Big Data and personal data for behavioral analysis and behavioral change
In a broader article on Big Data and privacy, the New York Times writes about the work of Alex Pentland, a computational social scientist, director of the Human...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Videolocators Case Study
Some time ago I mentioned the Videolocators startup. Which uses some intriguing SEO methods. Ed Burns, their CEO sends along a case study of the service which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lockheed and Quantum Computing
Have followed quantum computing here for specialized problem solving for some time. Here a GigaOM article with more detail about how Lockheed-Martin is using the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Making the Most of Big Data”
As we enter the second year of the Federal “Big Data Initiative,” the Administration is encouraging multiple stakeholders to develop and participate in Big Data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Petroleum Geology
Reading for data analysis background: Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling & Production, 3rd Ed. by Norman J. Hyne (Mar 31, 2012)Very...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Genetics
Despite looking very different from each other and being distributed across the world's oceans, all giant squid are the same species. There's also not a lot of...
From Schneier on Security
Changes to the Blog
I have made a few changes to my blog that I'd like to talk about. The first is the various buttons associated with each post: a Facebook Like button, a Retweet...
From Wild WebMink
Reader Reminder
My Infoworld Open Sources article for this week is now live. It takes the demise of Google Reader as a reminder that without open source software processing open...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why am I Running for the CSTA Board?
Who am I and why am I running for the CSTA Board? I am someone who is deeply committed to computer science education. As an educator, as a software professional...
From Putting People First