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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
Interaction Between Robots and Jobs
Do robots net create or remove jobs? What are the classification of jobs that are lost and won? " ... A new class of industrial robot is appearing. These robots...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Because We Are a Community
I believe it is only human nature that, when something terrible happens at a distance from us, we immediately ask ourselves "Are our people there? Are they safe"...
From Putting People First
Book: Hidden in Plain Sight (by Jan Chipchase)
Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow’s Customers by Jan Chipchase Harper Collins Publishers April 2013 256 pages (Amazon link)...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on Ways to Improve Quality of Software-Related Patents
The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council submitted comments to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office yesterday in response to its request for recommendations on how the...
From Schneier on Security
Initial Thoughts on the Boston Bombings
I rewrote my "refuse to be terrorized" essay for the Atlantic. David Rothkoph (author of the great book Power, Inc.) wrote something similar, and so did John Cole...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ericcsson Acquires MS Mediaroom
Interesting because I have worked with variants of the media room idea for years. Much more at the link. " ... Mediaroom is the leading platform for video distribution...
From Putting People First
Videos online of March 2013 Healthcare Experience Design conference
On March 25, the Healthcare Experience Design (HxD) conference took place in Boston. Speakers discussed how human centered design and design thinking can improve...
From CERIAS Blog
Opening Keynote: Todd Gebhart, Co-President McAfee Inc. (Summary)
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Summary by Gaspar Modelo-Howard The Changing Security Landscape Why do we, as cybersecurity professionals, go to work each day? Mr. Gebhart...
From Wild WebMink
OSI Open Source Community Summit
Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: The License Clinic for US Federal Agencies is not the only new departure for the Open Source Initiative this May. OSI...
From Schneier on Security
FBI and Cell Phone Surveillance
We're learning a lot about how the FBI eavesdrops on cell phones from a recent court battle.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2013 CSTA Annual Conference Keynote Speakers Announced
The Computer Science Teachers Association is proud to announce the keynotes for the 2013 CSTA Annual Conference (formerly known as the Computer Science & Information...
From Putting People First
iHub Nairobi welcomes Michele Visciola
Michele Visciola, Experientia’s president and user research director, will speak at Kenya’s iHub this week, on Friday 19th April. Michele is currently in Nairobi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID System Tracks Shopper Flow
In RFID Journal : Have tested a number of related ideas. Notably much work by Herb Sorensen's group that was reported in his excellent book : Inside the Mind...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco and GMills Open Innovation
How Cisco and General Mills use Open Innovation. In APQC. Views based on physical and virtual site visits. Examples of how to bring in external innovation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving the Problem of Customer Attacks II
Colleague, correspondent and former co-fellow of mine at SNCR Paul Gillin has written a book on customer attacks using social media. I posted about it once before...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsoring Challenges and Visions Track at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2013 Conference
The CCC is sponsoring another in its series of “Challenges and Visions” tracks as a Robotics Challenges and Vision workshop at the 9th Robotics: Science and Systems...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do we lose intelligence and creativity as we grow older?
It was popular during the XXth century to say that most scientific discovery are done by young scientists (under 30). The implicit assumption was that the brain...
From Computational Complexity
Post Mordem on an April Fool's day joke
Recall that on April Fools Day I had a post about R(5) being discovered via a collaboration of Math and History. Many readers emailed me asking how many people...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson