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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
OSU, Allostatix Link to Measure Health
Some time ago I mentioned Allostatix, a company that has developed a means to construct an overall health measure, based on what is called the allostatic load, See...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Price Matching Online
In TheVerge: Target says they will start price-matching Amazon year round. As an attempt in part to defer losses to to show rooming activities of mobile enabled...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House Staff Indicates Machine-Readable Data Will Become Normal Practice; Echoes USACM Recommendations From 2009
During his appearance at a meeting of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park indicated that there...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Procedural Rhetoric and Theme in The Walking Dead
I've been thinking about procedural rhetoric and its relationship to a particular theme in a story. For example, a major theme in The Walking Dead is humanity:...
From Wild WebMink
Beating A Dead FRAND
Of course FRAND terms are incompatible with software freedom, even if you can find a project that has devised a construct to allow it to attempt to accommodate...
From Schneier on Security
DHS Gets to Spy on Everyone
This Wall Street Journal investigative piece is a month old, but well worth reading. Basically, the Total Information Awareness program is back with a different...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Reversi Sample Code
One of my earliest attempts at programming a computer to play against me was a version of Reversi I attempted some30+ years ago. Reversi is a great game for this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Seeks to Tame the Videoscape
It has been a while since I have written about Cisco, despite working with them for years in the enterprise. We actively used video in our innovation centers...
From Geeking with Greg
Kids, programming, and doing more
I built Code Monster and Code Maven to get more kids interested in programming. Why is programming important? Computers are a powerful tool. They let you doseven...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
On Being a Technology Teacher in Newtown
Editor's Note: This special blog piece was written by our Board member, Patrice Gans, who teaches at an elementary school in Newtown Connecticut, five miles from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Live CES Blog
I have been to several Consumer Electronic Shows (CES). But it has been years and I have found it just as easy to stay in touch virtually. For examplewith this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Health Gamification
A review of articles in 2012 on health gamification. An obvious area of application of enhanced engagement via game dynamics. And with our personal mobile devices...
From Computational Complexity
Do daughtered candidates to better- Look at the Data!
Someone in my election night party predicted Obama because: Ever since women got the right to vote (1920) if one candidate has a daughter and one does not, then...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UC Data Visualization Day: January 24
I have been reading Stephen Few's book "Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten", Second Edition. It was good to see that Stephen Few will...
From Schneier on Security
Details of an Internet Scam
Interesting details of an Amazon Marketplace scam. Worth reading. Most scams use a hook to cause a reaction. The idea being that if you are reacting, they get...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 January 2013
Everyone back at school yet? A lot of universities are not while other have short January terms. Most K-12 schools in the US though are back. Some have startedNerd...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leaders Make the Future
Bob JohansenIFTF Distinguished FellowInstitute for the Future124 University Avenue, 2nd FloorPalo Alto, CA 94301Author of Leaders Make the Future, Second Edition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science as the Future of IT
In GigaOM: Another overstatement, but a useful one to think about. Analytics, necessarily based upon data, is the essence of driving value from information, and...
From My Biased Coin
Security, Disclosure, Legality
I guess I'm late to this news, but I stumbled across the case of Andrew Auernheimer, who was convicted of one count of identity fraud and one count of conspiracy...
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