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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Video Games and Learning: My First MOOC Experience
Way back in the springtime I signed up for a Coursera offering on video games and learning. I had no idea when the course would actually be offered, and forgot...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 28
October 29 Markup: (Rescheduled from October 24) The House Homeland Security Committee will review pending legislation, including H.R. 3107, the Cybersecurity Boots...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Doing Data Science
Now available for order: Doing Data Science Paperback by Cathy O'Neil, Rachel Schutt: I like the general premise, do not have yet:" ... Each chapter-long lecture...
From Schneier on Security
Understanding the Threats in Cyberspace
The primary difficulty of cyber security isn't technology -- it's policy. The Internet mirrors real-world society, which makes security policy online as complicated...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 October 2013
The first quarter at my school closed last Friday. The year seems to be flying by. I guess it is true what they say about time flying when you are having fun. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise and Big Data
On Enterprise Big Data: some good points made here. There is still relatively little understanding, and thus investment in the techniques. This is not new, it...
From Putting People First
Book: Speculative Everything
Speculative Everything Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming By Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby MIT Press Jan 2014, 200 pages [Amazon link] Today designers often focus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Personal History of Blogging
According to the Wikipedia, Blogs were invented in 1998. In 2001 I started an internal enterprise blog that was the most read in our global company. It connected...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tagging Forward
This blog started in 2003, replacing an older internal blog. Starting last year I started to tag items in this blog. All new items are now tagged. I have also...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where is the Power of the Crowd?
A good thought in Innovation Excellence: " ... Crowdsourcing may have also benefited from the recent recession with firms finding an inexpensive army of recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free BI Apps
In an interesting play, Microstrategy has introduced free BI Apps. A not unsurprising direction to make basic BI capabilities generally available. Although I...
From Schneier on Security
US Government Monitoring Public Internet in Real Time
Here's a demonstration of the US government's capabilities to monitor the public Internet. Former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden was on the Acela train between...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Maps into 3D Spaces
From a recent gaming competition. The use of historical maps that are then mapped into a 3D gaming style world. Watch the linked-to video. Will this ultimately...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive Dynamic Map Example
MJ Perry points me to this interactive data visualization map that shows the number of living US presidents since 1789. I like the general design, although the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation at the Tipping Point
Poses an interesting question: " ... We all know innovation is important because it is the lifeblood of any business. But compare upcoming digital era to previous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reputation Risks from Technology
In CIO Insight: A low information slide infomercial accounts the means by which corporate reputation can be endangered from new technologies. Though the information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decline of the Wikipedia
We followed Wikipedia from the beginning. We attempted to use the Wiki model to store and retrieve corporate knowledge internally. Learning much about what worked...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dynamic Biophotonics in Squid
Female squid exhibit sexually dimorphic tunable leucophores and iridocytes. Just so you know. Here's the story in more accessible language. As usual, you can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: From Mess to Analytical Models
A few seats left:TIBCO Spotfire and the Data Analytics Foundation personally invite you to the Analytics Value Proposition Series – From Mess, to Models, to Insight ...
From The Eponymous Pickle