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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
Business Intelligence Requirements Gathering
Somewhat obvious but useful examples of who and what to get together to better insure the success of a BI effort.
From Schneier on Security
Recovering a Hacked Gmail Account
Long (but well-written and interesting) story of someone whose Gmail account was hacked and erased, and eventually restored. Many interesting lessons about the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eames Documentary Online
Worth a look. We worked with Herman Miller on innovation projects: PBS Eames documentary now online:If you're at all inter
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Shut Down or Restart: New UK CS Report
The Royal Society in Great Britain has just released a ground-breaking new report called Shut Down or Restart: The Way Forward for Computing in UK Schools which...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Real Computer Science in High Schools
As someone who is always looking for outreach opportunities with middle and high school students, I enjoyed The Guardian's recent article called Michael Gove to...
From Schneier on Security
"Going Dark" vs. a "Golden Age of Surveillance"
It's a policy debate that's been going on since the crypto wars of the early 1990s. The FBI, NSA, and other agencies continue to claim they're losing their ability...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Institute Creates New Division for Bioinformatics, Comp Bio
The National Institute of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS), an institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) supporting basic research and research training...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Teachers and Students Together
The other day Chris Bowen (that
From Putting People First
Affective computing
Chapter twelve of the interaction-design.org resource is now available in preview. It deals with what HCI specialists call
From Putting People First
Jan Chipchase gets asked critical questions and responds
During the Pop!Tech conference, well known design researcher Jan Chipchase gave a talk about his research work. In the panel session an audience member asked two...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner View of IBM DemandTec Acquisition
A short post by Gartner on the proposed acquisition.. Some of the usual watch-outs with any acquisition. Certainly it is a means of bringing very specific retail...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kaggle: Data Science as a Sport
Crowd sourcing prediction.. " ... Participate in competitions ... is an arena where you can match your data science skills against a global cadre of experts in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Pharma Information Tech
In the Recorded Future Blog. A good look at IT in Pharmaceuticals using the temporal search engine Recorded Future. This search engine semantically analyzes...
From Schneier on Security
Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
I have a love/hate relationship with the CATO Institute. Most of their analysis I strongly disagree with, but some of it I equally strongly agree with. Last September...
From Schneier on Security
TSA Cupcake Update
The TSA claims that the cupcake they confiscated was in a jar. So this is a less obviously stupid story than I previously thought.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IBM Determines Magnetic Memory Limits
Ahead of an article to be published in tomorrow’s
From Computational Complexity
Being Random and Trivial in Dagstuhl
This week I'm at the Computability, Complexity and Randomness workshop at Dagstuhl in Germany. This meeting brings together two groups, complexity theorists and...
From Schneier on Security
A Theory of Online Jihadist Sites
Very interesting: The counterterrorism community has spent years trying to determine why so many people are engaged in online jihadi communities in such a meaningful...
From Putting People First
Elizabeth Churchill on emotion
Elizabeth Churchill, Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research, was the speaker at the October 2011 Creative Mornings event in San Francisco. In her talk...
From The Eponymous Pickle