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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 7 May 2012
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From Wild WebMink
Making Hybrid PDFs
It’s easy with LibreOffice. Send people attachments you can be sure they can view, but
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile no Longer Optional for Visualization
Notes In Znet: I largely agree. Tablets have become the new normal for viz. I don't think I would acquire a visualization application that I could not display...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mind Mapping Expertise
From the Biggerplate mind mapping library blog: " ... Liam meets mapping expert Philippe Boukobza: Last week I was extremely fortunate to have the opportunity...
From Wild WebMink
Half Dome Sunset
Reblogged from The Global Mink: Despite the crowds who gather to share the experience, watching the sun set and the shadow of the Sierras pass across the face of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Front Line Workers Need to Innovate
I much agree. It is ultimately essential. But in real life experience the effort is often seen as wasting time. Real rewards for it are often slow in coming....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Philosophy vs Science
In data management. More akin to social science versus physics. There is science involved, but it is of the statistical rather than the precise law kind. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Orange Ads Work Better on Facebook
Tailoring ad effectiveness. Makes sense to look at this analytically.Not Unlike Continual Improvement Processes in Factories, CPG Giant Taps Data to Constantly...
From Putting People First
The false question of attention economics
An older post, but I missed it. So here it is, more than two years after it was published by Stowe Boyd: “A few posts have emerged recently that recapitulate the...
From Putting People First
Customer experience: The natural ally for UX in business
In a blog post (which is itself a paraphrased transcript of his talk at the Polish IA Summit 2012), Peter Bogaards talks about the relationship between user experience...
From Putting People First
User experience is strategy, not design
Peter Merholz, VP of experience design at Inflection (and founder of Adaptive Path), thinks there is no such thing as a UX design profession. User experience is...
From Wild WebMink
Ubuntu for Android
In case you missed it in the article yesterday (I know plenty of people don’t click through!), here is the very simple video I made of Ubuntu for Android in action...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Clorox
Clorox meets moms in the aisles with smartphones. Emarketer article about how the CPG company is using mobile marketing. ' ... "We are always asking: Is this...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Bicycle Parking Sculpture
Neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
Tampon-Shaped USB Drive
This vendor is selling a tampon-shaped USB drive. Although it's less secure now that there are blog posts about it.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Membership Survey Contest Winners
Congratulations to the winners of our 2012 membership survey: - Daniel Loeb, from Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada - Joanna Baniaga, Mililani, Hawaii, USA Our winners...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Two Examples of Storytelling to Teach Computer Science
Here are two delightful examples of using storytelling to teach computer science. These are traditional stories to be read on their own. They differs from our...
From Computational Complexity
Is it well known that we need to redefine well known?
A LONG time (so long ago I was a guest poster, not a co-blogger) I posted about how calling things that are on You-Tube rare is odd since ITS ON YOU-TUBE! ANYONE...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Image Analysis Game
A crowd-sourced image analysis game. I worked on several image analysis systems that had crowd-sourced and gaming components, so the details here are interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle