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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 Schneier on Security
More Plant Security Countermeasures
I've talked about plant security systems, both here and in Beyond Fear. Specifically, I've talked about tobacco plants that call air strikes against insects...
From Wild WebMink
It Would Be Funny If It Weren’t True
Professor Elemental builds a Great Machine for Catching Villains
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Good is Facial Recognition?
Had followed the technology for some time. Especially how it had been used in casino applications, to apparently great success. But under controlled conditions...
From Putting People First
Plant Wars player patterns: visualization as scaffolding for ethnographic insight
The latest contribution to Ethnomining, the April 2013 Ethnographymatters edition on combining qualitative and quantitative data, edited by Nicolas Nova, is by...
From Putting People First
How will Big Data change design research?
Dave McColgin of Artefact writes about the relationship of design research to the ultimate outcome-focused research tool: Big Data. “Big Data [...] provides us...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cincinnati Zoo is a MidMarket Engine
In an interesting development our local Cincinnati Zoo has been declared IBM midmarket engine of the week. I have been there many times, its a haven for things...
From Schneier on Security
The Police Now Like Amateur Photography
PhotographyIsNotACrime.com points out the obvious: after years of warning us that photography is suspicious, the police were happy to accept all of those amateur...
From Wild WebMink
Free Software Needs Support
Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: This open letter from the director of Bytemark Hosting is a call for other hosting companies to help financially support...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Share your software early: the Reinhart-Rogoff case
I like stories where prestigious professors screw up spectacularly. It reminds us that everybody gets it wrong some of the time. The Reinhart-Rogoff story is one...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics and the Organization
This article states it once again. The analytics, and all analytics is predictive, must be permanently connected to important decision process. That implies that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass in the Future
In CompterWorld. An outline of the future of the head mounted display and some of the explorations being done today. I have reviewed just a few examples, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality for Real Estate
Walter Riker sends this along. Augemented reality as a link of real spaces with information. As an App for ease of installation and use. Mostly used for retail...
From Schneier on Security
Securing Members of Congress from Transparency
I commented in this article on the repeal of the transparency provisions of the STOCK Act: Passed in 2012 after a 60 Minutes report on insider trading practices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization and Big Data
Good piece by SAS outlining the value of visualizing data. As the article suggests, the mere act of showing data and allowing the interactive manipulation of data...
From Putting People First
“CasaZera” opens, with Experientia smart meter design (incl. slideshow)
In a decommissioned industrial zone in Turin, a single bright yellow apartment stands out in the shell of an old factory. This is “CasaZera”, a sustainable living...
From Putting People First
Report: Survey of European schools on ICT in education
This study collected and benchmarked information from 31 European countries (EU27, HR, ICE, NO and TR) on the access, use, competence and attitudes of students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 April 2013
Yes I’m a day late with this post. It’s school vacation week in New Hampshire and I’ve had other things on my mind. These things happen. I have limited Internet...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Congressional Forum on Voting Accessibility
National Council on Disability’s Congressional Policy Forum on Voting Access “The Help America Vote Act Ten Years Later: Has the Law Accomplished Its Aim?” Tuesday...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Senate Hearing on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Opportunities and Challenges Senate Finance Committee Full Committee Hearing April 24, 10 a.m. Dirksen Senate Office Building – Room...
From Computational Complexity