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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
So What Are You Doing the Week of December 5?
The process of starting a new school year is empowering, exhilarating, and exhausting all at the same time. Even though it's been five years since I was in theour...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BI Platform is Dead: an Interactive e-book
The BI Platform is Dead: A fresh look at what business analytics means for today's organizationsView this interactive eBook now (Registration with Information management...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailer Helpers
In Bloomberg BusinessWeek: a Good overview article on a number of startups that are using smartphones to bring e-commerce advantages to real-world stores. Mentions...
From My Biased Coin
Doing the Right Thing? (Quick Links Edition)
From Shots in the Dark, a pointer to a new "feature" -- apparently, there's not a tweet system recording and listing books checked out from Harvard libraries. Marc...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whorfian Hypothesis
An extensive NYT Magazine article on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: That the language you speak effects how you think. Was often characterized by the observation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Field Agent Re-look
I mentioned the Field Agent IPhone App some time ago. It allows a retailer or manufacturer to pay people to perform simple tasks at a store and get paid for doing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The RBR Group and other Sites Then and Now
I have been loosely affiliated with the RBR group since my retirement from Procter & Gamble over two years ago. The just updated their web site with some new features...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Getting Ready for a Conference
Grace Hopper is fast approaching so I find myself, once again, madly going through my usual routine list of tasks to do before heading to a conference. Here'sView...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Makes a Nano Map
IBM makes a clever nano world map 1000 times smaller than grain of sand . Small things can be useful.
From Wild WebMink
History In Action
Google Code Blog: An update on JavaOne Google pulls all their people out of JavaOne. That’s going to be a big hole in the agenda since they employ all the good...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Your Privacy Mind
EchoEcho: A startup that lets you ask of anyone: Where are you? - The receiver can provide or deny the information. The approach is different because you can change...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Location of Sponges, Instruments
In RFID Journal: The FDA has approved the use of passive RFID tags for the location of instruments and sponges. I recall this being brought up in sessions ten years...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Luring Shoppers to the Store
A good WSJ article on various uses of technology to get people to physical retail. This was an area we worked on extensively with a number of vendors.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Students Need Both Knowledge and Facts
As the new school year starts, an old complaint resurfaces. A recent opinion piece has said once again that US higher education is failing US employers. Students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Character Amnesia in Chinese
Lots of thoughts out about how technology is altering aspects of literacy. This article from Language Log, about how text messaging is influencing Chinese characters...
From Schneier on Security
Me at the EastWest Institute
Back in May, I attended the EastWest Institute's First Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in Dallas. I only had eight minutes to speak, and tried to turn the dialog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seaswarm Spill Robotics
Report about an MIT project called Seaswarm. Autonomous robotics to address oil spills. Includes an interesting video. I do always wonder about the contextual complexity...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Research in Astronomy
Every 10 years, U.S. astronomers come together to generate what has become a highly influential report recommending which astronomy and astrophysics projects should...
From Schneier on Security