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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
Supermarket Dominance
Why does some retail dominate? A history of the dominance of a company that started in 1919. " ... "It became such a success story because it was aggressive at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blue Tooth on the Rise
From BBC Future: Makes sense that since we have more devices, letting them network among themselves is getting more popular. This article is a nice survey of...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Space Is Easier Than Time
We really understand the complexity theory of space Anil Ananthaswamy is the author of the book The Edge of Physics. He also consults for Britain’s New Scientist...
From CERIAS Blog
Just sayin
In the June 17, 2013 online interview with Edward Snowden, there was this exchange: Question: Mathius1 17 June 2013 ...
From Computational Complexity
T/F - No Explanation needed VS T/F-Explanation needed.
One of the comments on my blog on Types of question for exams A True/False math question where they have to prove their answer. A student who picks the wrongall...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Barriers to More CS Teaching and Learning in Schools
Many of us spend a lot of time trying to convince those around us (colleagues, school administrators, district leaders, politicians, etc.) of the importance ofa...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free UC Online Innovation Class
Coming October 7! (Background and Video) Full Announcement in BrowserFREE University of Cincinnati Innovation ClassIn this FREE seven-week Massive Open“Innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web Intelligence Driving Business Decisions
From a favorite direction, Recorded Future. An interview with Bob Gourley: "What is it about web intelligence that is such an important opportunity to you?WebThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Harvard and MIT Join to Address Intelligence
We were heavily involved in the last Artificial Intelligence hype peak in the late 80s. Despite some big successes we saw it languish, at least in direct practice...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bullett Journal Note Taking System
New ideas in note taking is something I have not read about in some time, but the claim here is that ' .... The most important step to keeping a great notebook ...
From Schneier on Security
Government Secrecy and the Generation Gap
Big-government secrets require a lot of secret-keepers. As of October 2012, almost 5m people in the US have security clearances, with 1.4m at the top-secret level...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching the World to Make Maps
Making Maps. Another example of specialty MOOC. " ... Meet the Man Who Wants to Teach the World to Make Maps. The world’s first digital-mapping MOOC (massive...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Launching New Postdoc Best Practices Program with Funding Opportunities
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) seeks to catalyze the computing research community and the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research. Paramount to the...
From Schneier on Security
Excess Automobile Deaths as a Result of 9/11
People commented about a point I made in a recent essay: In the months after 9/11, so many people chose to drive instead of fly that the resulting deaths dwarfed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 September 2013
Busy week for me. Lots of stuff going on at school. Seems like the first few weeks of school wear me out no matter how hard I try to be prepared. I have fewer links...
From Putting People First
From nice view to amazing journey: UNstudio and Experientia transforming the observation wheel experience
Click on image to view slideshow This week, both Dezeen Magazine and Wired have featured articles about UNStudio’s design for the Nippon Moon, a Giant Observation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Core Blue
A former colleague of mine, Jeff Fenter, reports he has set up an effort called Core Blue. I like the approaches being used here, which mirror some of the work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cards as the Future of the Web
Cards as design. An interesting challenge. Link contains lots of visual examples. I remember the card systems used on the Mac. Is this a a replay of that method...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Memories Can Recombine
It has been determined that our memories are less permanent and stable than we thought. Now research that shows memories can be combined to create new experiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle