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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
Mission Control for Social Media and Retail
In AdAge: Gatorade has established an interesting 'mission control' room for tracking how their message is working. " ... In a room crammed with flat-screen monitors...
From Schneier on Security
Stealing Money from a Safe with a Vacuum
Clever: The burglars broke into their latest store near Paris and drilled a hole in the "pneumatic tube" that siphons money from the checkout to the strong-room...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Case Studies
Just brought to my attention for a study: A set of case studies from the eye-tracking vendor Tobii that covers a number of capabilities and study contexts. Previous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple TV
Apple TV is to arrive by this Friday. Sounds like an interesting change is underway. " ... Apple's focus is on selling you 99
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Facebook Sells You
A very instructive piece in the current Bloomberg Businessweek on How Facebook Sells You.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Apps Culture
Pew Internet on the rise of Apps culture. Or based on the stats, perhaps a non-apps culture: " ... Some 35% of U.S. adults have software applications or
From Computational Complexity
Review of Lipton's Book-Blog/Review of Goldreich and Arora-Barak/New Book Review Column/Do you want to review?
My review of Lipton's new blog-book is here. It will appear in my SIGACT NEWS at some later time. Daniel Apon's joint review of Computational Complexity: A...
From Wild WebMink
? Transitions
LibreOffice – A fresh page for OpenOffice This is a good and balanced article that is worth reading. At Sun I tried several times to get a Foundation started for...
From Schneier on Security
Cultural Cognition of Risk
This is no surprise: The people behind the new study start by asking a pretty obvious question: "Why do members of the public disagree
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Would you play this game?
I love puzzles and small little programming projects. When you can combine those two at get a project that you can use for a good learning/teaching experience it...
From Wild WebMink
? Travel Security
I have been travelling this week on Europe’s low-cost airlines, and have realised that there is only one way to make air travel secure, and that is to take security...
From Wild WebMink
Why Open Source Is Free
My classic essay on Payment At The Point Of Value has finally made it on to the Essays page on this site. Now that community-centric open source is once again returning...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Scientist Dawn Song wins Macarthur
Dr. Dawn Xiadong Song, Associate Professor of Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley, is one of 23 recipients of the 2010 Macarthur Grants awarded by the John D. and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chicago Thinkubator
I have been involved with innovation contexts in the enterprise, and had heard of the Thinkubator in Chicago, but never visited. They have established a new web...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Loners Will be Loners ... Or Not.
Many of us are fortunate to have taught classes in which all students are active participants and teaching and learning are natural activities in the classroom...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Software Blog
I just spent some time updating my Tableau Software visualization system to the latest version. I brought it into the enterprise when Tableau was first released...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding the ROI for BPM
Thinking about the ROI for business process modeling (BPM). We never directly calculated such an ROI in the enterprise. The modeling alone was useful to understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Application of Scientific Method in Healthcare
Mark Montgomery sends along a link to a talk by Dr. Donald Berwick. Provocative talk about how the scientific method is modified by social interaction in a health...
From Schneier on Security
Isolating Terrorist Cells as a Security Countermeasure
It's better to try to isolate parts of a terrorist network than to attempt to destroy it as a whole, at least according to this model: Vos Fellman explains how...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM