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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
Competitors Address Myths with Vaginal Knowledge
In Adage: Interesting approach from Kimberly-Clark that competes with work by my former enterprise, P&G. The positioning seems to be delivering expertise vs the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Video
An MSN Canada video on the use of neuromarketing. Nothing very new here, but I like that they show an application of eye-tracking, neuroactivity analysis and emotion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification as Concept Waning
I was involved in a number of applications in the enterprise that would today be called gamification. Involving people to engage with systems and data to compete...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Predictions and Principles
With a year end thank-you to Ken Ken Regan is the co-editor of GLL and is one of the internationally-ranked chess players in the US. He has won the city championship...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Finally Captured on Video
We'll see it later this month. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Experience is everything
We learned recently that one of the leading opponents to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Mark Lynas, decided that he had it all wrong. GMOs save the Earth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming OBAIS Seminars
Upcoming at the University of Cincinnati:The OBAIS department invites you to attend the following four seminars in January, all of which will be in Lin 217 from...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Meeting
On November 27-29, 2012, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Principal Investigator Meeting was held. The SaTC program...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Nerd Score, Geek Code and Over Reaching the Geek
The other day I was bouncing around the Internet an came across of quiz to compute ones “Nerd Score.” It was a fun little quiz and I knew I’d come out fairly nerdy...
From Putting People First
Steelcase’s anthropologist on remaking offices to create happier workers
Anthropologist Donna Flynn directs Steelcase’s WorkSpace Futures, a 19-member independent research group within the global office design company, that is responsible...
From Putting People First
Big Data, healthcare, and the human lens
Now and then somebody writes something that you don’t only wholeheartedly agree with, but that is so deliciously written that it’s a pure joy to read. Ian Eslick...
From Putting People First
Fitness by design
Can data heal? Yes, argues Dan Hon, whose type 2 diabetes spurred him to embrace “personal informatics” devices such as the Nike FuelBand and the Fitbit. Yet as...
From My Biased Coin
No Stress
Greg Morrisett points me to this bit of silliness to start my morning: University professors have a lot less stress than most of us. Unless they teach summer school...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cleveland Indians Using ThinkVine
I just got a press release from marketing mix optimization and simulation modeling company Thinkvine saying that the Cleveland Indians baseball organization isMore...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Carleton Quest Now Available in the App Store
I celebrated New Year's by getting my first iPhone app into the App Store! It's a story-based QR code activity (currently but probably not permanently called Carleton...
From Schneier on Security
What Facebook Gives the Police
This is what Facebook gives the police in response to a subpoena. (Note that this isn't in response to a warrant; it's in response to a subpoena.) This might...
From Wild WebMink
Ubuntu Phone – Nick Of Time?
I discussed Ubuntu Phone with Canonical Mobile Product Manager Richard Collins (who you’ll recall demoed Ubuntu for Android for me). Here’s the video: For my full...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leading at Amazon
Leading for the long term at Amazon. An HBR interview with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jaron Lanier vs the Web
We talked to Jaron Lanier a number of times as we looked at how to visualize and virtualize corporate process. I have followed his work for years. Most interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle