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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 Putting People First
The future of lying
Someone told Intel’s futurist Brian David Johnson that technology could do away with all lying in the future. He was horrified by the idea and wrote this: The Future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HP Tablets
In an interesting development HP plans to be planning to deliver a family of tablet style devices. Recall the fiasco that HP had when they acquired the Palm OS...
From Schneier on Security
House Hearing: How Well Is the TSA Doing?
I would have liked to participate in this hearing: Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency: "Assessing DHS 10 Years"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attack of the Customers:
Colleague, correspondent and former co-fellow of mine at SNCR Paul Gillin has written a book on customer attacks using social media:Attack of the Customers: Why...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Technology: Blessing or Curse? A Case Study from the Magic Kingdom
I just got back from a week's vacation to what is supposed to be the happiest place on earth - Disneyworld. I come from a family that is not very technical or even...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Rise of the Swarm
Our enterprise did a number of analytics projects based on swarm technology, also called Agent Based Modeling. We brainstormed warehouse compliance swarms. Now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Driven Culture for Analytics
Good piece in a new newsletter I get. Business driven analytics, commentary by three analytics managers. The federated org structure sounds the most familiar...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NSF INSPIRE Solicitation Issued
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a new solicitation – Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) – that...
From Schneier on Security
Me at the RSA Conference
I'll be speaking twice at the RSA Conference this year. I'm giving a solo talk Tuesday at 1:00, and participating in a debate about training Wednesday at noon....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Excel and Big Data
In GigaOm: Walter Riker sends along this link about MS Excel and Hadoop. A surprising amount of analytical work is done in Excel, and it is natural to see links...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 25
February 26 Hearing: The Research Subcommittee and the Technology Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a joint hearing on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Team Blogging Practices
When I ran a multiple internal blog operation in the enterprise, the goals were knowledge retention, sharing and collaboration. We did both internal and external...
From Putting People First
The problem with our data obsession
To Save Everything Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov Public Affairs Book, 2013 432 pages [Amazon] Abstract In the very near future...
From Schneier on Security
Another Essay about Liars and Outliers
The Montréal Review asked me to write an essay about my latest book. Not much that regular readers haven't seen before.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 February 2013
School vacation week for me this week. Trying to get some work done around the house, relax a bit, grade a bunch and of course plan for the rest of the semester...
From Putting People First
Isobel Demangeat on the UX of augmented reality
A bit of an older talk, but still quite interesting: Isobel Demangeat, UX researcher at Qualcomm Corporate R&D Cambridge (UK), spoke at MEX in December 2011 on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Show Me the Numbers
I have been fully reading Stephen Few's book: Show me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. (Second Edition). In part for preparation of some...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Who Invented Boolean Functions?
Hint: I am not sure Calixto Badesa is a faculty member at the University of Barcelona. His department is called the Department of Logic, History, and Philosophy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sephora Haul Addiction
Ann Althouse examines the 100,000 videos entitled "Sephora Haul' on Youtube. Quite an interesting view of what might be called cosmetics addiction and ultimately...
From The Eponymous Pickle