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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
Blog Tags are Here
Starting now you can utilize blog tags here, also called labels. They are found at the bottom of each post. These tags classify the blog post with others that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recognizing Pattern with Math
Recognizing PatternsWith today’s powerful data analysis systems, users gather a ton of information—a breakdown of Wal-Mart Stores’ (WMT) sales in the U.S. or things...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experience in the Data
Apply Your Experience.Saffron Technology wants to put your data to work under a completely new approach to data analytics: Experience Management. The way we see...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Spies on E-mails
A strange offshoot of the Harvard cheating scandal -- a report in the Boston Globe that Harvard administrators decided it was OK to search through Resident Dean...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improved Check-in
Foursquare checkins become easier, which eases the whole problem of getting loyalty credit, and also makes the implementation of location based games more powerful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Personal Brand Will be Googled
Good thoughts in Mashable. It is revealing that some of hints here also use Google to improve your personal brand, regardless you are a regular user of their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Preview
Pointer to the advertising future via a video by James C Nelson. from 1967. I remember thinking about adaptive media not long after that, but it seemed the challenges...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IT Driving Employee Passion
Good IT is a magical thing that can drive employees to do new things. My reaction to the title here. Why else does everyone have a smartphone and/or a tablet,...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update Is Back!
After a long hiatus, the ACM Washington Update – a newsletter of computing policy activity published by the ACM Public Policy Office – is back. Yesterday we published...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Data Brokers Know About You
In Pro Publica A good overview of how personal data is currently being brokered. First time that I had seen this much information about the topic in one place....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Neuromarketing
Roger Dooley provides a number of examples of Coke neuromarketing. I had been sensing that there was a decrease in the use of these technologies to understand...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It’s not lazy – its efficient
Years ago I worked for a company that sold computers, software, terminals and many other things. A terminal salesperson worked out of the same office I did and...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid/Whale Yin-Yang
Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
Ross Anderson's Security Engineering Online
The second edition of Ross Anderson's fantastic book, Security Engineering, is now free online. Required reading for any security engineer.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Damsels in Distress
After all the terrible controversy and the failed attempts of sabotaging her Kickstarter campaign, Anita Sarkeesian's first episode of her video series on Tropes...
From Computational Complexity
Opera and MOOCS
I've really learned to enjoy opera (the art form not the browser) and while I've come to really enjoy Atlanta, the city only has a regional opera company. So IMetropolitan...
From Wild WebMink
Speak Up For SHIELD
If you’re a US citizen, your support for the bipartisan SHIELD Act could strike a decisive blow to patent trolls by making them pay costs if they lose patent actions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Sensors in the Workplace
Via the CACM and the WSJ: We examined this approach, using RFID badges and portal sensors in the Innovation Centers. It made things more efficient by letting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strong Collaborative Skills Matter
From CIO: Almost nothing of note in IT can be done today without extensive collaboration. The skills to do this are essential in companies large and small. ...
From Wild WebMink