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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 Wild WebMink
CDB has 0% citizen support
My Freedom of Information request for the summary of citizen input on the UK’s Communications Data Bill reveals unanimous opposition, as well as a disturbing trend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Shopping
An example of augmented reality shopping by Junaio in Cover magazine. A physical publication. See it and try it here on Facebook. An early example of advanced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
60 Years of a Barcode Patent
I was just reminded that it has been about 60 years since the patenting of the bar code. See this BBC article. Today we think of it as a very humble thing, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at Recommender Systems
IEEE deconstructs and compares recommender systems. " ... By now, online shoppers are accustomed to getting personalized suggestions from the sites they visit...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
I will start at the beginning of my story to explain why I titled my blog with the famous quote. The beginning of the 2011-2012 school year I had a conversation...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Top Computer Science Educators on Twitter
I’ve been maintaining a very loosely curated list of computer science educators and resources on Twitter for a while now. I make no claim that it includes everyone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Seeks Open Technology
In CGT: Unilever seeks technologies that will support sustainable growth. " ... Unilever put out an open call for cost-effective innovation on three technical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unlocking Big Data in Social
In CIO Insight. Lots of groups are seeking to insight out of social. Many with very great expectations. News from Oracle OpenWorld. Drilling for insight is...
From Putting People First
Content and the journey: Building a good user experience for news sites
Discussions at recent news industry conferences have often referred to the importance of good user experience, particularly during discussions about how news outlets...
From Schneier on Security
"Ask Nicely" Doesn't Work as a Security Mechanism
Apple's map application shows more of Taiwan than Google Maps: The Taiwanese government/military, like many others around the world, requests that satellite imagery...
From Computational Complexity
Why Does College Cost So Much?
When John Hennessey gave his talk on MOOCs at the CRA Snowbird meeting he recommended the book Why Does College Cost So Much? by Robert Archibald and David Feldman...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Award for Aspiration in Computing 2012 Reminder
Time for a reminder. Now that school has been underweight for a while you may have identified some young women who would be good candidates for the NCWIT Award....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Explaining Analytics
I often have to explain analytics and modeling to people. Just today I had a meeting with a client who needed to understand the value of analytics and modeling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lego and Open Innovation
From IdeaConnection: Good piece about how Iconic toymaker Lego uses open innovation. " ... Lego is an open innovation pioneer, one of the first companies to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focus on Results, Not Technology
A clear message to Big Data Giants. Memo To Oracle, SAP: Listen To P&G's Language ... Oracle and SAP keep fighting a war of words over whose technology is bigger...
From Schneier on Security
The Insecurity of Networks
Not computer networks, networks in general: Findings so far suggest that networks of networks pose risks of catastrophic danger that can exceed the risks in isolated...
From Putting People First
Top 10 things still to fix in experience design
Here’s the view of Ray McCune, managing partner at Flow, on some of the peaks we still have to climb if experience design is to become a mainstream business discipline...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are Your Students Whiteboard Ready?
One of my former students is the CTO of a startup these days. He posted today about the need for all of the employees of his company to be “whiteboard ready.” His...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Search Updated
In CW World: I have always thought that search engines did a poor job of internal search. In particular they have not taken advantage of internal knowledge structure...
From Computational Complexity