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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
Science of Humor
Mind Hacks on the science of humor. Another example of non conscious reaction. And what better engagement for retail than laughter? How can this result purchasing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Expert Integrated Systems
A short video by IBM Research on integrated expert systems. Insightful thoughts I agree with. " ... Why expert integrated systems? " ... An IBM Research perspective...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Fun is to Entertainment as Education is to Training
How often have you heard a teacher say something to the effect that their job is not to entertain? My guess is pretty often. I know I have heard it a lot. Teachers...
From Schneier on Security
Vote for Liars and Outliers
Actionable Books is having a vote to determine which of four books to summarize on their site. If you are willing, please go there and vote for Liars and Outliers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Responses and Neuroeconomics
In Science Daily: Neuroeconomics: Studying Brain Responses Gives Marketers Increased Ability to Predict How People Make DecisionsScienceDaily (Apr. 24, 2012)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
College Libraries Exploring Pinterest
My own involvement with libraries would not make me expect this. But libraries are doing more experimentation than they used to. Moving from text centric to image...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GSMP InSight Launched
GS1 reports they have a new site that summarizes global standards activity: Building Standards to Deliver Business Value: InSight is GSMP
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Inaugural Collective Intelligence Conference
Researchers from multiple disciplines spanning computer science, mathematics, the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, and biology gathered at the Massachusetts...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Chesapeake Bay Squid
Great pictures. 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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Experiment: Teaching Computer Science With Stories
I've wondered in the past how important interactive storytelling might be in educational games. The potential to use story for more than just engagement seems...
From Wild WebMink
GPL: Declining Or Not?
Going were angels fear to tread, I wrote in Infoworld today a summary of the “Is the GPL in decline” debate and come to the conclusion that the use of the GPL remains...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data and Visualization Blogs
A good list of data and visualization blogs, have not heard of a number of them. Worth exploring.
From Computational Complexity
Hanan Samt wins Kanellakis Prize!
( Symposium on Turing in Princeton in about a month UMCP is doing a job search for a lecturer New York Area Theory Day ) The Paris Kanellakis Theory and...
From Putting People First
Do people want touch on laptop screens?
Do people want touch on laptop screens? Daria Loi, user experience manager at Intel, did some research on the matter and the answer is a clear yes: people want...
From Putting People First
Communicating the UX value proposition
John Dilworth and Matt Miller of LDS Church provide an overall framework to communicate the value of UX within businesses, that directly associates the value proposition...
From Wild WebMink
Open Standards Consultation Extended
The Cabinet Office has acted on an undisclosed conflict of interest by adding an extra month. Read more on ComputerWorldUK.
From Schneier on Security
Attack Mitigation
At the RSA Conference this year, I noticed a trend of companies that have products and services designed to help victims recover from attacks. Kelly Jackson Higgins...
From Putting People First
How mobile technologies are shaping a new generation
Some interesting data by Tamara J. Erickson on what she calls the “Re-Generation”: individuals at the formative ages of 11 to 13, those born after about 1995 [which...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Young People Doing Exciting Things
This has been an inspiring week for me. Last weekend though Monday I was in Redmond for the US Imagine Cup. Great projects. Today I am at the FIRST Robotics World...
From The Eponymous Pickle