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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
Cautions About Big Data
In TDWI: Three things that matter with Big Data. These cautions apply to all data based projects and thus should always be considered and addressed. I would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Credit Card Usage
In Supermarket News: A snippet of information about online credit usage. " ... Many Wal-Mart Stores shoppers who purchase online and opt to pay with cash at...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM/IEEE-CS CS2013 Ironman-v1.0 draft released
Those of you interested in undergraduate computer science education will be interested in the latest draft of the ACM/IEEE-CS CS 2013 curriculum recommendations...
From Schneier on Security
Al Qaeda Document on Avoiding Drone Strikes
Interesting: 3 – Spreading the reflective pieces of glass on a car or on the roof of the building. 4 – Placing a group of skilled snipers to hunt the drone, especially...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Radio Gets Second Screen
In AdAge: Music ID App Soundhound will lead you to supporting screen for music playing nearby, Will be interesting to see how well the combination of media...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ahold Boosts Online
In Food Business News, another major retailer pushes online. " ... Ahold USA, which reports that sales increased 3% in fiscal 2012, to $25.8 billion, says it will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation in Consumer Goods Companies
In CGT: What consumer goods companies are doing for innovation: " ... What do Nestlé, Campbell Soup Company and General Mills all have in common? They all beat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM In-Store Image Recognition App
In PopAI: IBM Research steering shoppers in the store and combatting showrooming. In the early days of our retail innovation center we worked with IBM image recognition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Pushes Internet of Everything
Cisco putting value on the Internet of everything. Imagine everything is tagged and communicating on the net. And smart too.
From Schneier on Security
Marketing at the RSA Conference
Marcus Ranum has an interesting screed on "booth babes" in the RSA Conference exhibition hall: I'm not making a moral argument about sexism in our industry orsame...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Causes of Innovation Failure
In Innovation Excellence: Some fairly obvious, but worth reviewing to understand the process.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Grant to Carnegie Proves Seriousness of Cyber-Security Efforts
President Barack Obama, during his State of the Union address, discussed education and the revolution of industry, bringing it back to America. President Obama...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do NULL markers in SQL cause any harm?
The relational model, and by extension, the language SQL supports the notion of NULL marker. It is commonly used to indicate that some attribute is unknown or non...
From Schneier on Security
Technologies of Surveillance
It's a new day for the New York Police Department, with technology increasingly informing the way cops do their jobs. With innovation comes new possibilities but...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Do We Teach Debugging?
I spent some time debugging student code today. Actually I spend a lot of time debugging student code these days. It is not something I mind at all. I see it as...
From Putting People First
The disappearing interface
Where static computer screens and smartphones suck in our gaze and extract us from the world around us, many of the most interesting new tech gadgets and ideas...
From Putting People First
Designing the political future
After technology received so much attention as a key differentiator for Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, Cooper Managing Director Doug LeMoine asked Scout Addis...
From Putting People First
Are our household appliances getting too complicated?
Who needs a kettle with four heat settings? A washing machine with a ‘freshen up’ function? A toaster with six browning modes? What happened to the good old days...
From Putting People First
Language issues. An Interview with Brigitte Jordan
Last September, social anthropologist Nora Schenkel had the opportunity to interview Brigitte Jordan, described by Cat Macaulay as one of the “godmothers” of design...
From Computer Science Teachers Association