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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
Leadership in Science Policy Institute nomination deadline: December 14
Last year, the Computing Community Consortium and CRA’s Government Affairs Committee held the first Leadership in Science Policy Institute. A total of 35 participants...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Launches CSEDWeek With New Student-Created Posters
CSTA is pleased to announce the winners of the Faces of Computing poster contest as part of the Computer Science Education Week celebration. The winning posters...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linked Smartphone Seismometers
I like the idea of using multiple sensors to drive some sort of decision making system. Smartphones are an example of a commonly available, widely deployed sensor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fractal Nature of Organizations
Nice link through to to a video on fractal organization. A long time interest of mine that we were able to use for such seemingly unrelated areas like product...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Mounting or Solving Open Problems
Programs not programs src Richard Hamilton is the mathematician who laid out the route that eventually led to the positive solution to the three-dimensional Poincaré...
From Wild WebMink
No Apologies
Sorry is not enough in the days of the tabloids. There’s no way out; they will hound and pursue and compound and imply and demand and decry, treating confession...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Retail Paper.Li
I see that one of my posts, on the German clothing manufacturer, has been featured in the IBM Retail Paper.li publication. I had not seen this aggregation before...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinvention
My colleague Sammy Haroon on Core Competency driven reinvention.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Data for Smart Cities
GreenPlum report that is of interest. " ... Smart Cities are all about collaboration, sharing and transparency. They need true openness of data. It is not just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Neuro Challenge for Marketing
Abstract:Contemporary marketing is constantly subject to challenges generated by the evolution of market relations. Promoting the holistic conception in marketing...
From Schneier on Security
Squids on the Economist Cover
Four squids on the cover of this week's Economist represent the four massive (and intrusive) data-driven Internet giants: Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. Interestingly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Network Starts an Analytical Partnership
With my food and retail background and interests I found an interesting mention in this AdAge article. It is rare to see plays regarding the food industry using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco's Fresh & Easy Headed for Closure?
In Progressive Grocer: " ... Five years after its widely publicized U.S. debut, British supermarket operator Tesco is embarking on a strategic review of its beleaguered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Levels of Inventory Optimization
In SciDigest. Good point, graphically delivered. Inventory optimization analytics is first looked at tactically, but there us usually benefit in taking it to...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Should Kids Learn to Code in Grade School
This blog piece was republished from the KQED MindShift site with permission of the author. Author Sheena Vaidyanathan teaches 3D design and computer programming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Utilitarian Marketing
Mitch Joel in the HBR on utilitarian marketing, using the case of Meijer. Once again about the issue of finding things in a complex retail retail space, and leveraging...
From Wild WebMink
German Lessons
Why did Munich succeed but Freiburg fail in their open source migrations Following up from my look at the situation in Freiburg, I tried to distil the differences...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Guy Buys An iPad
In a move that had one of my friends deciding that maybe the Mayan forecast of the end of the world was true and another suggesting a tiny bit of hell had frozen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Midsize Loyalty Biometrics For Retail
I have been looking at both engaging and value adding plays for the midsize business in loyalty systems. I was pointed by the IBM Midsize group to the workGewandhaus...
From The Eponymous Pickle