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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
Big Data Skill Shortage?
Forbes piece on what they call a Big Data Skills Shortage. Here I believe that followup training to a typical Computer Science or Information Management degree...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Making Primes More Random
Mathematical tricks Ben Green grew up about 100 meters from the house in Bristol where Paul Dirac was born and lived until age 10. He has followed Dirac to Cambridge...
From Wild WebMink
Body As Instrument
Fascinating video of Imogen Heap explaining her “gloves” – actually a set of instrumentation that detects body position and gestures and provides haptic and visual...
From updated sporadically at best
The Problem with "Mansplaining"
The "mansplaining" meme, which captures the phenomenon of men being patronizing to women in conversation, is trending on the internet. There is a Tumblr here; a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Education and Industry–Friends or Foes?
Industry and education should be the best of friends. They should both be working towards some common goals. Mutually supportive allies. These days that doesn’t...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squirming Tentacle USB Drive
Just the thing. (Note that this is different than the previous squid USB drive I blogged about.) As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
From Schneier on Security
Video Interview with Me
This interview was conducted last month, at an artificial intelligence conference at Oxford.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience Shopper Engagements
Ron Wright of Sands Research Writes to me:Lily Glick was the lead on the POPAI Shopper Engagement Study and we throughly enjoyed working with her on this project...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forrester on New Workplaces
Another look at where we work and why. Technology has opened lots of new possibilities, but also new overhead to making the process work. I was at a meeting yesterday...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows 8 Game Development Links
My good friend Lindsay Lindstrom has started a series on creating Windows 8 games on her blog. Somehow I seem to have neglected to post links to it here. So here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Virtual Reality Real
In Fast Company: Did lots of work dealing with how a virtual presence could be be as real as possible. So these findings are useful.
From Schneier on Security
Shaming as Punishment for Repeated Drunk Driving
Janesville, Wisconsin, has published information about repeated drunk driving offenders since 2010. The idea is that the public shame will reduce future incidents...
From Wild WebMink
Open Source and App Stores
Package management in Perl and Linux may have seeded their existence, but app stores have been hostile to open source and failed to pass on software freedom to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding Patterns in Business Data
Was introduced to and further investigating Verix: " ... Beyond Traditional BI ... By fully automating the search and analysis of business data, you skip the tedious...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Data Meaningful
From today's Data Visualization Day at UC. A talk by Jeffrey A Shaffer, VP of Information Technology and Analytics at Unifund. He is also an adjunct professor...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
In recent years, interest has been growing in the emerging interdisciplinary area of Human Computation, a field that explores principles and applications around...
From Schneier on Security
Identifying People from their Writing Style
It's called stylometry, and it's based on the analysis of things like word choice, sentence structure, syntax and punctuation. In one experiment, researchers were...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards correlated with the Common Core
This is a big deal. With so much attention being focused on the Common Core for education these days understanding where Computer Science fits takes on some increased...
From My Biased Coin
On My Drive in This Morning...
It would, of course, be completely inappropriate for me to write that if you're interested in illegal prescription drugs, you should go talk to Stefan Savage of...
From Computational Complexity