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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
Sankey Diagrams for Balance Visualization
Though I had seen this form of visualization many times, I had never heard it called the Sankey Diagram. Often used for energy and resource balances. Recallstorytelling...
From Putting People First
Communicating sustainability: lessons from public health
Experts in public health have struggled with enabling behaviour change for years. The sustainability sector should learn what it can from their experiences, writes...
From Putting People First
Two recent articles from UX Magazine
Killed at Launch: A complete disregard for user experience leads to drastic action by Pete MacKie A failure to account for UX results in an e-commerce being pulled...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disruptive Innovation
Useful thoughts on the topic in a short post. And the start of a conversation: " ... What are the secrets of companies that manage to bring disruptive innovation...
From Wild WebMink
Speaking At OSCON
I’ve received confirmation this week that my talk for OSCON 2013 – entitled “Can Evil Corporations Embrace Open Source?” – has been accepted. See you there!
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Zeno Proof Paradox
Another discussion of paradoxes src Zeno of Elea was a Greek philosopher who lived almost 2400 years ago. He is famous for the creation of paradoxes at the juncture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Images in Dreams
In the Smithsonian Magazine. Apparently we can now predict to some degree what people are seeing with a combination of fMRI and EEG sensors. I observed a number...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Nighttime Squid Fishing Seen from Space
Page 18 of this thesis explains that squid fishing is done at night, and the lighting is so bright shows up in the satellite surveys of planetary lighting. This...
From Schneier on Security
Apple's iMessage Encryption Seems to Be Pretty Good
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has complained (in a classified report, not publicly) that Apple's iMessage end-to-end encryption scheme can't be broken. On the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization and Story Telling
Gib Bassett sends along a link to an article compiled by Erica Driver. Data Visualization: Storytelling, Skills and Utility. Just this topic came up in a recent...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Best Posts of All Time
I love how much easier it is to see statistics on blog post views with the most recent Blogger redesign. While these (probably?) don't account for views by RSS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Wicked Problems
An interesting technical look at the application of 'wicked problem' techniques to social problems. We used the term to indicated difficult to formalize and solve...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Supercomputers are Sustainable
Last week, there were great advancements in Supercomputing as two new facilities were officially opened to the research community. This week, supercomputers are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts on Bring Your Own Device to School
I seldom pay attention to the cars that students drive to school. I’m not that interested. Their technology on he other hand does interest me. I see all manner...
From Wild WebMink
Nokia Attacks
I remain bemused by Nokia’s attack on the prospects of the VP8 video format becoming an open standard. I can’t see what they & their shareholders get as a benefit...
From Schneier on Security
Skein Collision Competition
Xkcd had a Skein collision competition. The contest is over -- Carnegie Mellon University won, with 384 (out of 1024) mismatched bits -- but it's explained here...
From Putting People First
Free resources provided by the Interaction Design Foundation
A few days ago, I reported on the news that SAP has become the first major sponsor of the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF). Today, Rikke Friis Dam, Co-Founder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How P&G Presents Data to Decision Makers
In the HBR: This effort started long ago as a method to deliver data and models to executives, and has evolved much more broadly for many employees. And has finally...
From My Biased Coin
Upcoming Events
I've been asked to post for some upcoming events. The Simons Institute will have a multi-day symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing May 29-31, just before...
From The Eponymous Pickle