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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Four Computer Scientists Win Academy Award
Four computer scientists win, the film industry’s highest honor, an Academy Award, for their technical achievement in special effects. The researchers developed...
From Schneier on Security
Complexity and Security
I have written about complexity and security for over a decade now (for example, this from 1999). Here's the results of a survey that confirms this: Results showed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Health Tracking Survey
In Information Week, a very good article and statistics about the use of mobile devices to track health information, based on a recent PEW survey. " ... SevenSixty...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New CSTA Discussion List
This is something we (Computer Science educators) have needed for a while – a general purpose mailing list to discuss a wider range of CS education topics. As this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Going Home Again aka Back To The Classroom
Started teaching again full-time today. I’m teaching at the same school I taught at 9.5 years ago when I went to work for Microsoft. There are a lot of changes....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Analytics at Ford
A good profile of colleague Michael Cavaretta at the Ford Motor Company We met a few years ago to see how our enterprises could colllaborate. " ... Cavaretta's...
From Schneier on Security
Dangerous Security Theater: Scrambling Fighter Jets
This story exemplifies everything that's wrong with our see-something-say-something war on terror: a perfectly innocent person on an airplane, a random person identifying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unconscious Branding
A book review of Douglas van Praet's book. Unconscious Branding: How Neuroscience Can Empower (and Inspire) Marketing " ... In Unconscious Branding, Van Praet Based...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
PAEMST Awards Now Include Computer Science
This year, for the first time, the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) specifically include computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Google Image Search Interface
Newly described. Have spent time looking at image search interfaces and how they can be used to both direct search and gather images for analysis. They changes...
From Schneier on Security
Violence as a Contagious Disease
This is fascinating: Intuitively we understand that people surrounded by violence are more likely to be violent themselves. This isn't just some nebulous phenomenon...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 January 2013
A couple of house keeping items to start. First off, did you know that you can get new blog posts by email? Yep, on the right side of the page is a little signTraining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telepresence Healthcare
Brought to my attention by Mark J Perry. Description and link to a video. This addresses remote healthcare in an enclosed kiosk.. In the early days of our retail...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Companies are Using Gamification
In GigaOM: Beyond the hype, as it says. Category examples and a number of links to the ways that companies are using game dyamics to solve problems, enagage with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Smart City
An interesting piece about how Glasgow, Scotland has won a competition to be the UK's first 'Smart City' experiment, linking widespread sensors and analytics to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Search for Recruiting
In Mashable: Using Facebook Graph search for recruiting. I am seeing more companies today interested in hiring, but making sure to sure they hire the right...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Machines and World Without Work
General AP article that covers a number of developments in the last decade. Perhaps leading to less labor. This kind of labor singularity is still some distance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Efficiency vs Value in Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A look at the innovation equation. Measurement is always a useful exercise, even if you don't use the measure directly. " ... What...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Your Personal Brand
I was pointed to some interesting pieces in this blog about measuring and improving your personal brand: . " ... Leaders need to have a big, bold vision that others...
From The Eponymous Pickle