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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
CIO Strategies with CIO Eureka
A former colleague of mine at Procter & Gamble: José Ignacio Sordo Galarza, has started a company called CIO Eureka, which looks at enterprise CIO strategies. "...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Student Teacher Time!
Spring is the season of student teachers. Do you remember when you went out and worked with an older, experienced teacher to see what the job was really like? You...
From Schneier on Security
"People, Process, and Technology"
Back in 1999 when I formed Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., I popularized the notion that security was a combination of people, process, and technology. Back...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Canadian Computing Education Day + Scratch Day Canada
This came though on one of the mailing lists I am on. I know that some from Canada read this blog (or so the analytic report claims) so I thought I would also share...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Martha Pollack selected to be University of Michigan Provost
Martha Pollack, University of Michigan Professor of EECS and past Dean of their School of Information, has been selected as Michigan’s next Provost – another sign...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data and Healthcare Infographic
Big Data could revolutionize healthcare by replacing up to 80% of what doctors do while still maintaining over 91% accuracy. Please take a look at the infographic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook and CPG
In Adage: How can Facebook work with the retailer and manufacturer in CPG? Useful numbers and thoughts. " ... CPG accounted for 12.5% of measured ad spending...
From Schneier on Security
Who Does Skype Let Spy?
Lately I've been thinking a lot about power and the Internet, and what I call the feudal model of IT security that is becoming more and more pervasive. Basically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Analytics Disruption in the Enterprise
Thoughtful piece in Greenplum. Once again I like the general idea, you look for patterns in data with an analytical search , then use an analytical method to use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Guide to 3D Printers
Want to manufacture things to digital specifications at a distance? Build components in your cellar? As long as the components can be cut, formed or extruded from...
From Putting People First
Q&A with the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation’s Gerry Greaney and Molly McMahon
Since its inception in 2008, the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation has become the poster child for internal innovation practices. The Center for Innovation focuses...
From Putting People First
Uncharted territory: Where digital maps are leading us
The way we use maps is evolving fast, and it will change a great deal more than how we navigate, argues Kat Austen, an opinion editor at New Scientist. “Digital...
From Computational Complexity
TCS online series- could this work?
Oded Regev, Anindya De and Thomas Vidick we are about to start an online TCS seminar series. See here for details, though I have the first few paragraphs below...
From Putting People First
Successful public service design must focus on human behaviour
David Halpern, director of the Behavioural Insight Team at the UK Cabinet Office (widely known as the “nudge unit”), discusses research on how subtle changes in...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
A Few Good Game Podcasts
Now that I finally have a vehicle that can play files on a USB key, I've been able to listen to podcasts to make the most of my commuting time. I've been focusing...
From Putting People First
New MA at UC London combining anthropology, materials and design
“The material world is a world of social potential. Social scientists should be better equipped to engage with materials and objects through ethnographic, critical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks Evolving Mobile Strategy
Starbucks is thinking of using its ground-breaking mobile card for payment in CPG retail. This extent of this is unclear but interesting. " ... Starbucks takes...
From Schneier on Security
Backdoors Built in to Barracuda Networks Equipment
Don't we know enough not to do this anymore?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slides from UC Visualization Day
The slides from two of the presentations from last weeks UC Data Visualization Day have now been posted. Both very well done. If you would like my impressions...
From The Eponymous Pickle