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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 Schneier on Security
Peruvian Spider Species Creates Decoys
Clyclosa spiders create decoys to fool predators.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling Daily
A Paper.li collection of information about storytelling ideas and technology.
From The Eponymous Pickle
B-Reel
Selling high tech ideas at B-Reel. An example of using a mix of digital and other media to sell product. Some interesting examples of 2011 are described. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Myers-Briggs as Assessment
We never used the well known Myers-Briggs personality test for specific decisions. But it was promoted as a means for self-understanding. I was convinced it was...
From Schneier on Security
Phishing via Twitter
Interesting firsthand phishing story: A few nights ago, I got a Twitter direct message (DM) from a friend saying that someone was saying nasty things about me,...
From Putting People First
How are students actually using IT? An ethnographic study
This ECAR research bulletin describes an anthropological ethnographic analysis of student practices relating to the use of information technology on the University...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 December 2012
It’s the day before Christmas and at my house we have been cooking for days getting things prepared that can be prepared early. I haven’t spent as much time on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disrupt Yourself with Dreams
My former colleague Julie Anixter interviews Whitney Johnson about using dreams as a vehicle for disruption. " ... Join me for the webinar interview Innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Business Process
Rexamining a company, Charlotte Software Systems. We had worked with their CEO Kevin Kostuik, when he and other people there worked with former component BiosGroup...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Easily Used Data Please
GigaOM points to the fact that if we had more easily used data, we would not need more data scientists. Scientists are useful, but we need the leverage of intelligent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Passport Updates to Transform Shopping
Will Apple passport updates that will include NFC wireless transform shopping? In Mashable." ... A newly discovered patent application hints that Apple is planning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Photo Integration
Modeling People and places from collections of online photos. Variants of this idea have been tried before, but this approach takes a broader view. A good example...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Hadoop
In CACM: Interesting thoughts on technical big data examples and solutions. Like this: " ...When a new user visits the online music service Pandora and selects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Does not Self Correct
Some research is described in GigaOm. My own observations about Twitter:Its all about Memes. We believe what we want to. The evidence of increasing amounts of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification for Serious Business
In Ecommerce Times: A pretty broad view of what gamification means. Is it just Loyalty points? And sharing their level? It is a useful way to think about the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
STEM related infographic from RackSpace
Interesting STEM related infographic from RackSpace the hosting/cloud company. It could use a little more computer science content in my opinion but that is not...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Laughing Squid
The small San Francisco film and video company is celebrating its 17th anniversary. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows 8
About to dive into a project using Windows 8. I have been researching its use. Wharton takes a look.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Alpha Offers : Predictive Interfaces
I see that Wolfram Research has some new discounted ways to purchase Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha that are available through December 31. See more here. Also...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP