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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
Smarter Packaging Yet
A long time interest in making packaging more intelligent. Making it a broader part of the intelligence network. Now we have devices in the hands of consumers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
They Just Don’t Seem To Get It
An article was published yesterday with the very optimistic title of Computer Science May Become Mandatory Part of Mass Public School Curriculum. If you read the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Meetings are like sex
Meetings are like sex. Everybody thinks that they are good at it… until they ask for the truth. We never have real discussions about it: I did not want to say anything…...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Data Analytics
Recently pointed to. Worry about sharing data and ownership of the methods used: " ... Kaggle is the world's largest community of data scientists. They compete...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Reorganizes into Four Industry Specific Sectors
Not unexpected to see a reorganization event here. Reported in CGT. " ... The businesses in each sector are focused on common consumer benefits, share common...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowships includes former CRA Computing Innovation Fellow
Yesterday, Microsoft announced their Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowships and former Computing Innovation Fellow, Katrina Ligett is one of only seven recipients...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU and Prism
Was expecting an issue here. The EU is known for its strong data privacy laws. Now word that EU companies or those doing work with the EU, may be subject to lawsuits...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
A Forty Minute Tour of CS Education With Mark Guzdial
Mark Guzdial is one of the big names in computer science education. A couple of months ago, he spoke at the GVU Brown Bag Seminar with a talk entitled What We. ...
From Putting People First
Online, we’re all celebrities now. So what next?
“In reality, we’re all kind of on ‘Big Brother’ — on a reality show,” says Syracuse University’s Anthony Rotolo, a professor who runs the Starship NEXIS lab, focusing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics in The Boardroom
A whitepaper of particular interest because of our involvement with executive information systems over the years. Currently involved with a mobile delivery design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talking Advanced Technology and its Delivery
Gave an invited talk at a large energy services company yesterday on the progress of emergent technologies and analytics in the enterprise. The talk, given to...
From Schneier on Security
Prosecuting Snowden
Edward Snowden broke the law by releasing classified information. This isn't under debate; it's something everyone with a security clearance knows. It's written...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Parallel Processing And Data Analysis And Chocolate
We’re working on a new course for next year. It’s based to some extent from the Exploring Computer Science course but with some modifications to fit our schoolM&Ms...
From Putting People First
A successful 21st century brand has to help create meaningful lives
An enormous study of how consumers around the world interact with brands finds that only the companies that make life better for consumers create impactful connections...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Tomorrow’s House Hearing on the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act
Tomorrow morning, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to consider whether to repeal, reauthorize, or revise the Satellite Television Extension...
From Schneier on Security
The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
Interesting. Crazy as these theories are, those propagating them are not -- they’re quite normal, in fact. But recent scientific research tells us this much: if...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification and Loyalty
Rajat Paharia writes from Bunchball: " ... Next week, our book "Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification"...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Triads and Dyads
Not dryads and naiads… src Charles Peirce, who is regarded among the greatest logicians and philosophers, wrote a paper in 1897 titled “The Logic of Relatives.”...
From Computational Complexity
STOC: Some NON-radical ideas
At the STOC business meeting Joan Feigenbaum (PC chair) raised some very good points. There was no real discussion (or perhaps the burning car was the discussion)...
From The Eponymous Pickle