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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
Future View of Sustainable Packaging
Via Chris Holden of RecordedFuture A view of the future of packaging. " ... "Sainsbury's said that it had the industry's most ambitious target to reduce packaging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Medical Applications
In CACM: Valerie Barr outlines important big data medical applications. Exciting examples underway.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Powered Subscription Service
In AdAge, another project from their social labs. A social powered subscription service. " ... The @WalmartLabs unit today is broadly launching Goodies Co.,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Supply Chain Disasters
Over the years a problem we dealt with many times, some of our key production facilities being located in bad weather prone areas. This article in HBR does a good...
From Schneier on Security
Keys to the Crown Jewels Stolen?
At least, that's the story: The locks at the Tower of London, home to the Crown Jewels, had to be changed after a burglar broke in and stole keys. The intruder...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Open-ended Project
I’ve been thinking a lot about projects the last month or so. You may have seen it in my posts. Mostly I’ve been talking in generalities but today I’d like to focus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Data Center History
Fascinating view of how the Google Data center has evolved. " ... Google opened up on its data center operations today at an industry event in Phoenix. It shared...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unconscious Branding Book
Via Sands Research Palgrave Macmillian Releases Today: Unconscious Branding: How Neuroscience Can Empower (and Inspire) Marketing by Douglas Van Praet"Doug VanStephen...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Ryan Wiliams Combine
Structuring his famous proof to build more on it Ryan Williams is a deep theorist who is known among other things for his frontier-setting lower bounds against...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Supporting Student Innovation
Pat Yongpradit is one of my heroes. He is a high school computer science teacher who just does amazing things and gets his students involved in projects that take...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Interactive Webinar on NSF’s CyberSEES Program
On Monday, November 19, at 4:00 PM EST, the National Science Foundation will hold a webinar on its Cyber-Enabled Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES)...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast Sets of Integers
Maintaining a set of integers is a common problem in programming. It can also be implemented in many different ways. Maybe the most common implementation uses a...
From My Biased Coin
Posts from FOCS (Part 4)
[Editor: In Part 4 of what now looks to be a 5- or 6-part series of reports from FOCS, second-year graduate student Ludwig Schmidt of MIT contributes a summaryhttp...
From Computational Complexity
If GASARCH Tweeted what would he tweet?
If I tweeted this is what I would tweet: The problem with trying to predict who will win the election. Prez election thought: if you run as yourself and lose (Stevenson...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wicked Problems
We started to use the phrase 'wicked Problem' around the year 2000. Here is an incomplete analysis of the use of the phrase: So what is its definition? I like...
From Putting People First
Nicolas Nova interviewed on Ethnography Matters
The people from Ethnography Matters, an ethnography group blog that is celebrating its first year anniversary today, interviewed their new regular contributor Nicolas...
From Putting People First
How 3 million hours of user-testing fixed the Jawbone Up
Pulled from store shelves after a month, the first high-profile wearable activity tracker was a humiliation for Jawbone. Now, the Up is back, and anyone vying for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategic Marketing Mix Decisions
I have been recently been taking a look at the broad concept of marketing mix decisions. The problem is old: how do we decide how much promotional dollars toTheir...
From Putting People First
An interview with three UX strategists
The role of UX Strategist is a relatively new one on UX design teams, and has recently addressed in two articles on UXmatters: “UX Strategy: The Heart of User-Centered...
From Schneier on Security