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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
Theory vs Learning Models
A testimonial to easy data visualization and exploration. I believe that data visualization should always be the first step to analytics. Which means it can often...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of the Bionic Body
In the Smithsonian Mag: A good nontechnical view of the current state and future of the bionic body. " ... The Insane and Exciting Future of the Bionic Body ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistician vs Data Scientist
Vincent Granville measures the frequency of use of different keywords and finds the use of the word 'statistician' dropping versus 'data analyst'. Death of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Glass Streaming Surgery
It is not uncommon to stream point of view surgery video. Apparently an early case of doing it with Google Glass. Not new, but can lead to thinking about different...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualization of Research Activities at EMC
In Innovation Excellence: Using visualization to understand and improve categories of research activities. This might have been very useful in our enterprise...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Bobtail Squid Photo
Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Science Foundation Appoints new Division Director for the Division of Computing and Communications Foundations
On August 29, 2013, Dr. Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), announced the appointment of Dr. Rao Kosaraju as the new...
From Schneier on Security
Opsec Details of Snowden Meeting with Greenwald and Poitras
I don't like stories about the personalities in the Snowden affair, because it detracts from the NSA and the policy issues. But I'm a sucker for operational security...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Bring the Experts into your Classroom
The perfect guest speaker in your classroom can motivate students, add spark to a lesson, and set the stage for great learning experiences. But we all know theTED...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Designing an Intro to CS for Non-Majors: From Objectives to Problems
When working on my introductory computer science class for non-majors, I started with the objectives. From there, I thought about the types of assignments andinquiry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combatting Patent Trolls
I recently commented on patent trolls. I have been on the receiving end of being threatened by patent trolls. I was informed that there is now an advertisingStop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Don't Let them Underestimate You
Very good piece in the HBR Blog. Emphasizing about how you should set your self up and prepare for client meetings such that your capabilities are not underestimated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nanotechnology Conference
From the Foresight Institute, an upcoming conference in February 2014 , an excellent source of information in nanotech. Their site is well worth following. Particularly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Store Gamification
Using in-store gamification. Via John Curran of 5th Screen Display Services, who worked with us at our Innovation centers and introduced us to advanced interactive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pinterest as Business Platform
Took a close look at Pinterest about a year ago. Was interested in a largely non-text way of communicating, especially in a strong story format. I was disappointed...
From Schneier on Security
More on the NSA Commandeering the Internet
If there's any confirmation that the U.S. government has commandeered the Internet for worldwide surveillance, it is what happened with Lavabit earlier this month...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Encrypting Cloud Data
Google decides to encrypt cloud data. A very good idea to do this in general. Cloud data is a target.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
New Report on Computer Science Teacher Certification in the United States
Computer science teacher certification throughout the United States is “deeply flawed” and requires coordinated action by federal and state policymakers, education...
From Schneier on Security