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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
Linkedin Celebrity Advice
AdAge discusses this, but I had noticed it for some time. LinkedIn's use of the advice from tycoons and other 'names' to increase advertising traffic and revenue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recycling Kiosks
Have been a long time examiner of the kiosk in retail. Have followed Coinstar (Now called Outerwall) and integrating the Redbox kiosks. Now the company has bought...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile and CPG Awareness
Brand awareness is the top mobile ad priority of CPGsConsumer-packaged goods brands are more concerned about getter brand awareness and site traffic out of their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numbers Behind Prism
Numbers Guy spins some ideas and the implications of the false positive .... as more of us are being watched, a concern for everyone. ...
From Schneier on Security
NSA E-Mail Eavesdropping
More Snowden documents analyzed by the Guardian -- two articles -- discuss how the NSA collected e-mails and data on Internet activity of both Americans and foreigners...
From Putting People First
Notes on “Ambient Commons”, by Malcolm McCullough
Malcolm McCullough is one the key thinkers and writers about the intersection of the network, digital media, and the urban and architectural. Dan Hill (who will...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Education Interview: Pat Yongpradit–Code.org
Pat Yongpradit has been an award winning computer science teacher at Springbrook High School for a number of years. He has taken high school teams to the national...
From Putting People First
Urban sustainability: what will a smart city look like in the future?
By 2050 there will be five billion urbanites but, with pressure on resources and climate disruption, how will cities cope? New technology and conceptual design...
From Putting People First
Four ways cities should be adapting to change
The report “State of the City: 5 Trends Impacting US Cities,” issued by Living Cities, not only provides guidance about what issues are trending but also how cities...
From Computational Complexity
Computability in Europe
Bill and I are both in Europe this week. I'm in Milan at Computability in Europe and Bill is 500 miles away in Budapest for the Paul Erdős Centenary. The US 4th...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-mart vs Amazon in Online Groceries
In Knowledge @ Wharton: Very good piece on which of these retail giants are ahead in online retail, and the implications for their future. " ... Retail behemoths...
From Schneier on Security
How the NSA Eavesdrops on Americans
Two weeks ago, the Guardian published two new Snowden documents. These outline how the NSA's data-collection procedures allow it to collect lots of data on Americans...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual.ly Addresses Data Visualization
I followed Visual.ly for some time, and saw them as primarily a provider of infographics, which I was less than interested in. They have opened a new set of capabilities...
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Public Data Visualization Tools
A survey of data visualization tools aimed at public data. Towards the democratization of data visualization. " ... "Data visualization tool" usually means a...
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Tiny Robots Solving Problems
One more piece on the use of AI driven robotics to swarm to difficult or dangerous spaces. I repeat, also that there is is the potential to link these with sensors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mastering the Art of Self Promotion
In FastCompany: A favorite topic. What works. We had a number of sessions on this topic in the enterprise and they were always well attended. Should it be shameless...
From Schneier on Security
SIMON and SPECK: New NSA Encryption Algorithms
The NSA has published some new symmetric algorithms: Abstract: In this paper we propose two families of block ciphers, SIMON and SPECK, each of which comes in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 July 2013
I started a new series I am calling CS Educator Interviews last week. The first two interviews posted are with Kathleen Weaver and Garth Flint. Check them out when...
From The Eponymous Pickle