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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
USAID, ED Seeking to Tap Technology to Teach Children
At 10am EST this morning, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — together with its Australian counterpart
From Schneier on Security
A Link between Altruism and Fairness
I write a lot about altruism, fairness, and cooperation in my new book (out in February!), and this sort of thing interests me a lot: In a new study, researchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Balanced Insight
Attended an excellent talk by Tom Hammergren, CEO of Balanced Insight as part of the local BI group here last night. See also their blog. Quite insightful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Organizations as Decision Factories
Thinking about organizations as decision factories. I like to think about decisions being made within processes as a way to understand how to improve the operation...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Kicking Off CS Ed Week
What better way is there to kick off CSEdWeek than to hold an open house showcase of great student work and projects? This will answer for my community the age...
From Schneier on Security
EU Bans X-Ray Body Scanners
The European Union has banned X-ray full body scanners at airports. Millimeter wave scanners are allowed as long as they conform to privacy guidelines. UnderArticle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Infographics Amok
In Adage: Seeing more infographics these days. Steve Rubel chimes in on their overuse. I think there is a further problem. They seem to be a reaction to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablets as Ecosystems
In E-Commerce Times: With multiple affordable tablet systems starting to emerge, it is suggested that each will enable specific ecosystems of usage and product...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of Work Spaces
As part of our innovation centers we examined a number of work space design approaches. We participated in several innovation workshops about working environments...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Psychopaths by their Speech Patterns
Interesting: The researchers interviewed 52 convicted murderers, 14 of them ranked as psychopaths according to the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, a 20-item assessment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Experiments with Augmented Reality
Constructing 3D catalogs using Augmented Reality. We saw some early experimentation by Tesco in China. Tesco has always been a technology innovative retailer...
From My Biased Coin
Public University Budgets
Another topic that arose in conversations during my visit to Wisconsin was the issue of budgets, and in particular the large-scale cuts that many of the best US...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Can't SIRI talk to Watson?
Thoughtful GigaOm piece on AI. I spent years doing enterprise AI and what we did only worked when it was focused. We saw what IBM was doing at that time and it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exascale Computing Looms
From the supercomputing conference. Thousand times improvement in a decade. " ... Government support, as well as new computing techniques, will be needed ....
From Schneier on Security
Paul Kocher
Really nice article on crypotographer Paul Kocher and his company, Cryptography Research, Inc.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What the DARPA Network Challenge Showed
As we’ve previously noted in this space, in December 2009, 10 red balloons were deployed from locations throughout the U.S. as part of the DARPA Network Challenge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Network Patterns of Complexity
Stephen Few reviews Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information, by Manuel Lima. This book is about mapping networks of information. This has always been...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
C# Mini Course
So this is an experiment of sorts. Last summer I was asked to train some college students in C#. The goal was to get them ready to teach some very basic programming...
From The Noisy Channel