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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
Teradata Announces Hadoop Portfolio
Newly reviewing: Teradata delivers industry's first flexible, comprehensive Hadoop portfolio Teradata offers a single source for all things Hadoop - new products...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
New Template + Comments Work Again
Because someone brought it to my attention that comments weren't working anymore (and I had no idea how to fix them), I decided it was time for a new blog template...
From Schneier on Security
Secrecy and Privacy
Interesting article on the history of, and the relationship between, secrecy and privacy As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and...
From Wild WebMink
Community Foundations at OSCON
Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: OSCON is approaching and the schedule's looking great. On the Tuesday morning Simon will be one of several open source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Limits to the Limits of Growth
I read the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth shortly before entering college. I was much impressed by the details and predictions for the near future. The lesson...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Many Screens into One
Another advance from Intel Labs. Linking many screens into one large screen. We looked at these kinds of approaches in two areas: For retail display of engaging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Scanning for Driver Awareness
Study by Intel using brain scanning to determine driver awareness. A different technique to determine a measure of awareness: " ... Infrared sensors fitted to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games Creating Acheivement
Article about how game dynamics have been used inside companies to engage and prod achievement. Notably mentioned is consulting giant Accenture. And the example...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boredom and Creativity
In Fastcompany: Having enough boring, as opposed to focused work hours, leads to more creativity, the article says. Depends on the kind of creativity involved...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Projects from a Smartphone
In GigaOM: Intel has developed technology to put a multipurpose projector into a phone. Still in the prototype phases. I am involved in a business intelligence...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
It Takes Guts To Do Research
Or rather to find bold paths when opportunity gives only part of a map Robert Oppenheimer was one of the great physicists of the last century. He is most famous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Short Non Mathematical Statistics Course
Nice idea, Kaiser Fung from Junkcharts. I have often been in the need of having concise statistics training for managers and executives. "How to do statistics...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS2013 and K-12
Are you interested in what the future of computer science and computer science education at the college level looks like? Roughly once per decade, the Association...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Robotic (Agent) Game
In IEEE Spectrum: An intriguing view of upcoming robotics games and AI. Will this result in game style interaction with the real world? It could be described"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyber Security from Recorded Future
Have presented Recorded Future a number of times as a forward looking unstructured analysis method. Nor they announced something new, using their unique methods...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Staying sharp requires “intellectual gardening”
Gardening requires consistency. A beautiful garden is unstable. Some plants want to expand their reach and kill out the competition. Some plants are simply out...
From Putting People First
The culture of borrowing and debt: an ethnographic approach
What are people’s philosophy and attitudes toward loans and debt? And how financial marketers can respond to their basic emotional needs in the lending process?...
From Schneier on Security
MAD in Cyberspace
Ron Beckstrom gives a talk (video and transcript) about "Mutually Assured Destruction," "Mutually Assured Disruption," and "Mutually Assured Dependence."
From Putting People First