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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 My Biased Coin
Allerton Panel
This year was the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (website). Hard to believe it's been around that long. I think my first...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Go Lean, Go Agile: Are We There Yet? (GHC12)
The concept of agile development has always fascinated me, particularly because I haven't had the opportunity yet to work on an agile team. (This despite having...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Research Mind Mapping
I have used IThoughtsHD for some time as a mind mapping tool. The main reason for choosing it was that it was usable as an iPad App and could readily communicate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla's Lab is Saved
An example of unappreciated genius. Nikola Tesla. Wireless and energy transmission pioneer. I have seen the ruins of his lab from afar. I have stayed in a room...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Emergence of Precision Retailing
Tailoring promotions to mobile shopper needs in the store. ReadwriteWeb critically calls it SAP's Creepy New Retail Software Uses Big Data To Make You Buy More...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Problem With Courses
Lots of interesting side comments come up during some curriculum discussions. At a recent meeting of the CS 2013 task force one of the committee members made a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Importance of Federal Funding to Research
Steve Lohr from the New York Times published an article today titled, “The Seeds That Federal Money Can Plant,” which explains the importance of federal funding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney 3D Printing
An example of using 3D printing to create simple displays and sensors. " ... Aside from simple displays, the process can also be used to produce a variety of sensors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata and Tibco Spotfire
This press release recently came up in some research " ... Tibco Spotfire Announces Expanded Partnership with Teradata to Offer Extreme Data Discovery and Analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Education and Trust
Correspondent and frequent consultant to our enterprise Jerry Michalski gives his first talk at TED, in Copenhagen. On education on trust.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Accelerates
In CWorld: Augmented Reality Accelerates. I visited a lab this week that was building novel augmented reality work for local enterprises. More specifics on...
From Putting People First
Making mobile phones work for the poor
In this BBC article, David Edelstein, a leader in the mobile for development space, argues that human networks are the essential ingredient for mobile phones to...
From Putting People First
Understanding the sensing city
Consultant Roger Dennis, who identifies himself as “serendipity architect”, has been writing a series of posts on meetings he had related to the sensing city. Together...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Engraving from the 1870s
Neat book illustration. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connect & Develop
Take a look at Procter & Gamble's Connect and Develop Website. " ... This site has been created to help external innovators and companies learn how Connect + Develop...
From Schneier on Security
When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1?
On a NIST-sponsored hash function mailing list, Jesse Walker (from Intel; also a member of the Skein team) did some back-of-the-envelope calculations to estimate...
From Putting People First
An enchanted Odyssey on your iPad
Article by Francesca Salvadori, Scuolalvento blog Translation from the Italian Technology is probably the last thing that comes to mind when you think about poetry...
From Putting People First
Chris Noessel and Stefan Klocek presentation at D3
In August, Cooper directors Chris Noessel and Stefan Klocek discussed implicit interactions at Device Design Day 2012, organised by Kicker Studio in San Francisco...
From Putting People First
Ritual and the service experience
The interplay between efficiency and quality in a service experience is often what separates a merely transactional interaction from a valuable and pleasurable...
From Putting People First