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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
SAP Retools for Internal Startups
Last year I posted about SAP trying to utilize external startups for innovation. I was invited to one of their meetings concerning that approach. Now they have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk and Insurance in Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A discussion of risk and responsibility in innovation. Using innovation in nanotechnology as an example, from the insurance industry...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC to sponsor challenges and visions track at CIDR 2013
The CCC is sponsoring another in its series of “Challeges and Visions” tracks at the 6th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) January...
From Geeking with Greg
Google and the right database for the job
I finally got a chance to read "Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click", a paper out of Google presented at the recent VLDB 2012 conference. It describesDremel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Based Learning
There have been a number of attempts at using the enthusiasm and engagement seen with the use of games to deliver learning. Here is an example. Here for standardized...
From Schneier on Security
Comedy and Cryptography
Not the sort of pairing I normally think of, but: Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined on stage by comedian Dave Gorman, author and Enigma Machine owner Simon Singh...
From Computational Complexity
Where is the youth of TCS/questions on Nash Eq (guest post by VJ)
(Guest post by Vijay Vazirani.) On Theory Day on Nov 30, 2012 Vijay Vazarani gave a talk: New (Practical) Complementary Pivot Algorithms for Market Equilibrium...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Declare the Variables First
Back in the early days of programming one pretty much had to declare ones variables before writing any useful code. COBOL had (probably still has) a special section...
From Wild WebMink
A Bad Loser
Donald Trump seems to want us to think he’s an asset to Scotland. All the same, his behaviour there leaves many British people cold. His most recent outburst involved...
From The Noisy Channel
Lily 5.0, LinkedIn 2.0
What a wonderful week! On Tuesday, my daughter Lily turned 5. We celebrated by taking her out to her first karaoke night, where she had a blast — as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Indoor Mapping
We experimented first with kiosk based store floor maps, then with the advent of the simplest smart phone delivered directions to shoppers to allow them find aPopAI...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Make Your Data Last. Forever?
In overview article on storing away data. Just an introduction. Its not just about doing backups. We stored backups under mountains in the west. But how can...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Review / Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving
Programming involves a particular flavour of problem solving. If you're a beginner trying to get better at it, an educator teaching beginners, or just someone who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM/DemandTec Assortment Optimization
Early in my career I was given the task of how to optimize assortments under the constraints of the market shelf. On the surface the problem looks easy. You have...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Ensuring Teacher Voices Are Heard
This is an exciting time for CS education. There seems to be a growing national consensus that achievement in the sciences is critical both for the next generation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Object Oriented Recipe Development
An interesting piece out of GigaOM interviews media chef Alton Brown about using social media constructs to file and adapt food recipes. The link points to a video...
From Wild WebMink
MariaDB Foundation
I was pleased yesterday to see the MariaDB community starting the process of creating a Foundation to host open collective governance for their community. I’ll...
From Schneier on Security
Roger Williams' Cipher Cracked
Another historical cipher, this one from the 1600s, has been cracked: Senior math major Lucas Mason-Brown, who has done the majority of the decoding, said his...
From Putting People First
Design patterns for mobile user interfaces targeted at older adults
The use of smartphones is becoming widespread among all sectors of the population. However, developers and designers do not have access to guidance in designing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson