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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
Audi Releases Augmented Reality Manual
Metaio reports that Audi has released an augmented reality enabled manual, linked to a smartphone App." ... Metaio, world leader in augmented reality (AR) software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Body Language
Yet another example of nonconscious reactions. Body language. Well known, but not well codified. It has become common in recent years to use other measures like...
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New Age of Algorithms
A good view of Big Data and Analytics algorithms in the CSM. I like this article because it includes a number of real life application of analytics, several I...
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Uncomfortable CEOs
Former colleague José Ignacio Sordo Galarza has a new site: The Uncomfortable CEO. And I have just finished his new book: The Uncomfortable CEO: Making Information...
From Computational Complexity
How much Trig does your governor know?
How much math should our public officials know? Basic probability and statistics so they can follow the arguments that their science advisers give them. And they...
From Schneier on Security
Security at Sports Stadiums
Lots of sports stadiums have instituted Draconian new rules. Here are the rules for St. Louis Rams games: Fans will be able to carry the following style and size...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 August 2013
Where has the summer gone. A week and a day before all teachers have to return to my school. Students the end of next week. It’s been a great summer but I’m looking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Dashboards in R
Have not tried this in my recent R exploration, but looks to be very useful. Be aware this is fairly technical.
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London Recycling Bins are Following You
I have a recycling bin. It sits out at the curb once a week. When I saw this piece that was what I was thinking of. My bin tracking my recycling. Very different...
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Hardest Part of Data Visualization
Much agree. Simplicity of development, and then simplicity of understanding through interaction are key elements. Tableau is good at this, but could also be better...
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A Curious Tale of a Loss of E-Mail Privacy
In Forbes: An interview with Silent Circle co-founder Phil Zimmermann. Had not heard of the company. The company deleted its secure email service this past...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Think Big
I’m saying at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas for the final meeting of the CS 2013 task force. While this hotel doesn’t have a casino or other gaming...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Move the Cheese
Report on the recent Coding, Complexity, and Sparsity Workshop Martin Strauss and Anna Gilbert and Atri Rudra are the organizers of the just-held Coding, Complexity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Socks Gather Data
Hackaday is an interesting site to follow. New uses of information technology hardware and software. Which naturally cobble together many well known techniques...
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IT in Times of Uncertainty
In the Future of the CIO Series: Some very good thoughts here. I particular: Simplicity. Not to say that I follow that recommendation well. As a follower of...
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Ants and Networking
What ants know. And what complex networks of things can be made to 'know'. Known as Agent Based Models. We studies this a decade ago in the enterprise. Though...
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A Look at Flat Design
A detailed look. With a number of recent examples, such as Microsoft. Starting to see it everywhere. " ... As the name indicates, flat design is defined by flatness...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blog: Rickshaw Cart Woodblock Print
With a squid. 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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Female Friendly Narrative Modding in Games
Why is it that there are still so few video games stories with awesome female protagonists that don't play into the usual gender stereotypes? What's a gamer toZelda...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM