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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
Testing Your Code with Myers-Briggs
In ReadwriteWeb: You can test your code's Myers-Briggs score. Does this have any real meaning?
From The Eponymous Pickle
At Atlanta Southface
I presented and interacted at Atlanta Southface today about the gathering ad democratizing enviuronemental sensor data. " ... For more than 30 years, Southface...
From My Biased Coin
John Byers on WBUR
Listening to my co-author, John Byers, streamed live on WBUR, discussing our work on Groupon. Ben Edelman is another participant in the show.Here's the link. ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Jobs Are There For Poets
I was listening to an Internet stream of Gary Stager presenting a keynote at an education conference in Iowa the other day. The technology for this amazes me but...
From Putting People First
The rise of cross-channel UX design
“Seamless, cross-channel experiences are the way of the future, as technology fades into the background and the personal, physical, and social context determine...
From Schneier on Security
Discovering What Facebook Knows About You
Things are getting interesting in Europe: Max is a 24 year old law student from Vienna with a flair for the interview and plenty of smarts about both technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adding Interactivity to Real Objects
Augmenting reality by adding interactivity to real objects. From Engadget:" ...We'd seen Intel Lab's Oasis (Object-Aware Situated Interactive System) project a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Hampshire TechFest 2011
Last Saturday I spend the day at Windham High School in Windham New Hampshire for the second annual NH TechFest. TechFest is a project created by parents and others...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenge Your Culture
You should really question your own culture. In the HBR blog. " .. The truth is that most leaders don't know how to develop a useful picture of their organization's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Refinding E-Mail
Is it worth it to formally organize your eMail by placing messages in folders? To facilitate re-finding specific correspondence? I have done that since nearly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Transforming Business
Analytics Will Transform Business. In Paul Gillin's blog. I agree, having delivered analytical solutions for over thirty years in the enterprise. Need help...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Inspiration
Nearly every Sunday morning I try to read the Sunday paper to help me get charged up for the week and relax for a few quiet moments before starting my day. This...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
True scientists are irreverent
Richard Hamming compared knowledge to compound interest: The more you know, the more you learn. Hence, progress tends to be exponential. Some innovations increase...
From Computational Complexity
Teaching PCPs to Undergrads
The last few times I've taught undergraduate theory I cover the PCP theorem. It's not complicated if you state it the right way: PCP Theorem: For any constant...
From Putting People First
Data visualisation: in defence of bad graphics
Simon Rogers asks on The Guardian’s DataBlog if there is a backlash gathering steam against web data visualisations. “There has definitely been a shift. A few years...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog