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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Obama Administration Unveils $200M Big Data R&D Initiative
The Obama Administration has unveiled details
From Schneier on Security
Harms of Post-9/11 Airline Security
As I posted previously, I have been debating former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley on the Economist website. I didn't bother reposting my opening statement and rebuttal...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NY Times on Today
As we noted on Tuesday, the Obama Administration is scheduled to announce a new, multi-agency Big Data R&D Initiative today. An event — to be streamed live via...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikipedia and the University
Abstract of a case study: it is still evolving, but the younger cadres of teachers and students see it as a viable tool. Similar to the way any encyclopedia was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jive Intranet Gamification
Team collaboration and Gamification. An area we looked at a number of times without much success. Corporate culture was never one to experiment with anything...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
DevCamps
Microsoft is happy to announce that Windows 8 DevCamps have been added...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplicity in IT
Twitter event today:@IBMSmtrCmptng Expert Integrated Systems Twitter chat TODAY at 4PM EST #expertsyschat http://goo.gl/vC95hI will comment later.
From The Eponymous Pickle
New SAS Visual Analytics for Big Data
In Information Management: The in-memory play continues: " SAS has unveiled a new in-memory analytics platform designed for scalability and very fast performance...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Reimagined
Windows 8 is going to be a big change for a lot of people. Microsoft is of course doing a lot to help people prepare for this. As part of this effort Microsoft...
From Wild WebMink
Promoting Document Freedom
Today is Document Freedom Day. It’s not the easiest subject to explain. It’s easy to explain why being free to video a police encounter in the USA is important,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA
Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), together with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
From Schneier on Security
SHARCS Conference
Last weekend was the 2012 SHARCS (Special-Purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems) conference. The presentations are online.
From Putting People First
An introduction to Lean
Laurence McCahill, design lead and co-founder of Spook Studio, explores for .net magazine the Lean Startup and Lean UX movements, which bring a groundbreaking approach...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top 50 Brands in Content Marketing
Some interesting statistics about mostly very well known companies that develop online content. Includes measures like Twitter followers, Facebook fans, Unique...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Judea Pearl Wins Turing Award
For contributions to artificial intelligence in the area of uncertainty and causal reasoning. More details about his work here. His excellent book: ... ...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Federal Trade Commission Pushes Forward With Online Privacy Initiative
Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released the final version of its report on consumer privacy online. It issued a draft report in December 2010 and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House to Announce Big Data R&D Initiative Thursday;Live Webcast Planned
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Giving Credit
In the HBR Blogs: We were always taught to give credit where it was due in the big enterprise. It does not meant that it always happened. A certain amount...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why Aren't You GoIng to CS&IT
Once agwin this year, CSTA will be holding its annual Computer Science and Information Technology conference. It will be a fabulous event and the people who attend...
From The Eponymous Pickle