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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
Thinking Business Process Modeling
A long time interest. Here, ten points to think out before starting. " ... Most organizations understand how business process management (BPM) can generate long...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketers and Gaming
In Fast Company: What Marketers can learn from Gaming. An interesting take that should be developed further. " ... Now marketers are discovering the “power of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House “We the Geeks” Hangout on Grand Challenges
Tomorrow, May 16, at 2:00 p.m. EDT, watch the first ‘We the Geeks” Hangout on WhiteHouse.gov and on the White House Google+ page. On May 16th, the White House is...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
In Which I Am Tempted to Move to California
Blog posts have been sparse lately: I have been traveling. Last week I spent five days in Palo Alto, California. The visit was primarily for the Anita Borg Institute...
From updated sporadically at best
Facebook Graph Search as a Journalistic Tool
Facebook is becoming an ever-powerful stalking tool. The social network now associates users with not just profiles stating some facts about their status and interests...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Shock
A concept I had not heard in quite a while. How does 'supply shock' spread through a system and influence costs and inventory and markets? Would like to see...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on Proposed US-EU Trade Agreement
The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council submitted its public comment to the U.S. Trade Representative outlining three important intellectual property principles for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spicy Foods
An area we examined in the sensory realm. In particular as a branding experiment, the Tabasco brand mentioned took a very long time to extend its reach. Now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Feigenbaum Wins IEEE Pioneer Awrd
Edward Feigenbaum, known as the father of expert systems, Stanford Professor Emeritus, has been awarded the Computer Society Pioneer Award. We consulted with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baxter Robot for Researchers
Open source software for a standard robot: " ... Rethink Robotics, the Boston startup founded by Rodney Brooks, doesn't want to be just a robot maker. The company...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Fulbright Israel Post-Doctoral Fellowships for American Researchers in All Disciplines
The United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF), the Fulbright commission for Israel, offers 8 fellowships to American post-doctoral researchers in support...
From The Eponymous Pickle
StudioNeuro
Brought late to my attention StudioNeuro, brought to my attention by A K Pradeep of Neurofocus/Nielsen. A number of the advisors are known to me. Appears to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Lumira Cloud
A useful view of SAP Lumira Cloud, formerly SAP Visual Intelligence. I had taken a superficial look at this a few months ago. The change of the name from something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Buys Big Data Analytics
An expected kind of move. The value of all social media will ultimately come from analyzing the behavior with their systems. I had not heard of the companyLucky...
From Schneier on Security
Transparency and Accountability
As part of the fallout of the Boston bombings, we're probably going to get some new laws that give the FBI additional investigative powers. As with the Patriotmost...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2013 CSTA Board Election Results Announced
CSTA Election results are announced Congratulations on reelection to Patrice Gans, Dave Reed and new member Stephanie Hoeppner. Oh and I have been elected too. ...
From Putting People First
New NESTA paper on good and bad futurology
A new NESTA paper, Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow, navigates the myths and realities of good and bad futurology, from economic forecasting to science fiction...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
This Week in Federal Policy
Topics to be addressed in Congressional hearings this week include: internet video, accessibility for people with disabilities, federal computing research, big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competition in Free Cloud Storage
ComputerWorld Reports that Google Drive has increased their free cloud storage to 15 GB. With Skydrive and Dropbox and iCloud and others the space available for...
From The Eponymous Pickle