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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
Next Gen Databases
Via Gib Bassett:What problems do next Gen Databases solve? Good introductory read:" ... The past decades organisations have been working with relational databases...
From My Biased Coin
NSF Coming Back Online
I was impressed how quickly the NSF got Fastlane back online. (I think it was turned on a few hours after the shutdown was ended.) But like many people, I'm awaiting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monopolies and Innovation
Clarence Hickman at Bell labs had invented a mag tape telephone answering machine in the 1934... But they decided to squelch turning it into a consumer product....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Common Languages for Data Visualization
An item in Fierce CIO attracted my attention. Which pointed to Tom Davenport's HBR blog article this past April. About how P&G is creating and delivering standardized...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Report on Brains on the Path to Purchase
In my last message I indicated my acquired skepticism on some current neuromarketing work. Just to provide some balance, let me point a report from a recent conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Mathematical Thinking
Can we detect reliably the specific nature of the thoughts in the brain? Some work reported on in Nature Communications that show we can deferentially detect the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connected TV and Internet of Things
We did lots of work in our 'future home' experiments in our innovation centers to understand how the home would ultimately be interconnected both inside and outside...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Teaching Helps Research
How teaching interacts with research Tim Budd is a computer scientist who works mostly in programming theory and practice. He once was a graduate student of mine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Line Help
Google has added inline help in several of its services. More here. Slightly more convenient in the actual context of the problem. Intelligence always exists...
From Putting People First
Architects don’t listen to people
Christine Outram left the architecture profession because, she says, architects “don’t listen to people“. “The truth is, most of you don’t try. You rely on rules...
From Putting People First
The design of Copenhagen as a bicycle friendly city
In a ten part video series, Copenhagenize Design Co explores the top 10 design elements that make Copenhagen a bicycle-friendly city. In the embedded video above...
From Putting People First
Observations from an ethnography conference
Alexa Curtis recently attended EPIC, the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, a truly international gathering of ethnographers, anthropologists, strategists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graphics Chips for High Speed Visualization
In Technology Review: Work from MIT. Reviewing. See their public interface and demonstration which looks at Twitter data. Lets you look at a database of 11...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Educause Conference Reprise
Been a long time reader of Educause, even before the Web, as a newsletter. I see that the Cisco blog is writing about their conference. Some good posts recently...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Fiona Apple Wears a Squid as a Hat in New Video
Even I think this is weird.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSEA Legislation Timeline
There is so much momentum around the need for more computer science education in the country's schools, and many organizations in addition to CSTA are now working...
From Schneier on Security
D-Link Router Backdoor
Several versions of D-Link router firmware contain a backdoor. Just set the browser's user agent string to "xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide," and you're in. (Hint...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dilbert in the Enterprise
In the HBR: We were heavy users of the Dilbert strip in the enterprise. They found their way into many slide shows. We thought that Scott Adams must have been...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Google in the Supply Chain
So true, worth looking at again:Why distributors should pay attention to Amazon, Google Amazon's B2B online channel Amazon Supply and Google's Google Shopping for...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog