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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links
Well I am not at ISTE this year. Sorry to miss it but in the long run it worked out as I am taking care of some important family stuff this week. If you are there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signal and Noise
An excerpt from Nassim Taleb's forthcoming book: Antifragile. On order." ... When consuming information, we strive for more signal and less noise. Intuitively...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What We Think We Know
Half of my job revolves around conducting professional development for teachers. My colleagues and I have done our best to offer quality sessions that are customized...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on 3D Printing
Another good piece on the status of 3D printing and remote manufacturing in GigaOM. Some good examples of where it can be practically used. I still think its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Embedding Analytics
A description of recent IBM work in embedding analytical methods in decision making. In our own experience it was always a case of how analytical methods could...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Director Describes
National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis S. Collins has penned a guest forum
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Storefronts
Engadget asks what works. We examined this almost a decade ago. I thought about it for a real application. Was there a requirement, or any value in mimic-ing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evernote Acquires Penultimate for Handwriting
I see that the Evernote note-taking company has acquired the Penultimate handwriting capture system. More details here. I have used and enjoyed Evernote on...
From Computational Complexity
Alan Turing (1912-1954)
Today we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, remembering his incredible life and mourning his tragic death. Alan Turing simply askedwebcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Badgeify Acquires Gamification
An interesting change among gamification vendors and underlying information organization. I have enjoyed and found useful the gamification.org wiki for examples...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re-imagining Online Advertising
The documentary. Google re-imagines what online advertising will become in their project Brief. Interesting to see what they are up to, especially considering...
From Wild WebMink
Whatever Happened To OpenSolaris?
Oracle probably thought they’d killed OpenSolaris after they bought Sun and focussed so many resources on Sun’s hardware business. But that sort of thinking would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Coordinate
New: Google mapping and location infrastructure, used to manage field crews. An analytics application.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Mutant Squid at the Queen's Jubilee
I think this is a parody, but you can never be sure. Millions of Britons turned out for the Queen
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Forest Monitoring
In Google Lat Long: Having been involved in several crowd sourcing efforts, its always good to see further and more complex examples. Mapping would seem to be...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Taking Advantage of the Interest in Games
I am writing this at the Games, Learning and Society Conference (http://www.glsconference.org/2012/index.html) in Madison, Wisconsin. This is an interesting and...
From Putting People First
Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman Studying Hacker Culture
As a grad student in anthropology, Gabriella Coleman was warned that studying the culture of computer hackers would make it hard to get a job teaching in a university...
From Schneier on Security