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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
Business Intelligence Symposium
UPDATE: I have now seen the list pf participants, and this will be an exciting and informative local meeting about the topic. Meet a number of local practitioners...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Acoustic Barcodes
A European colleague sends this piece about acoustic bar codes. It is a hack, but I like the idea of being able to interact with packaging or display via a touch...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My Brief Visit to E-Learn
I went to Montreal on Wednesday to present my work on what makes augmented reality good for learning (and in general, really). The conference was the World Conference...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
My Thing About The “Thing” Movies
A geometric puzzle based on the Thing movies James Arness was not a scientist, but was an actor who is best known for having played Marshall Dillon in the long-running...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
HS Computer Science Honor Society Survey
There has been talk about a high school computer science honor society among the high school CS education community for years. For the most part it hasn’t gotten...
From Wild WebMink
CDB has 0% citizen support
My Freedom of Information request for the summary of citizen input on the UK’s Communications Data Bill reveals unanimous opposition, as well as a disturbing trend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Shopping
An example of augmented reality shopping by Junaio in Cover magazine. A physical publication. See it and try it here on Facebook. An early example of advanced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
60 Years of a Barcode Patent
I was just reminded that it has been about 60 years since the patenting of the bar code. See this BBC article. Today we think of it as a very humble thing, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at Recommender Systems
IEEE deconstructs and compares recommender systems. " ... By now, online shoppers are accustomed to getting personalized suggestions from the sites they visit...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
I will start at the beginning of my story to explain why I titled my blog with the famous quote. The beginning of the 2011-2012 school year I had a conversation...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Top Computer Science Educators on Twitter
I’ve been maintaining a very loosely curated list of computer science educators and resources on Twitter for a while now. I make no claim that it includes everyone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Seeks Open Technology
In CGT: Unilever seeks technologies that will support sustainable growth. " ... Unilever put out an open call for cost-effective innovation on three technical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unlocking Big Data in Social
In CIO Insight. Lots of groups are seeking to insight out of social. Many with very great expectations. News from Oracle OpenWorld. Drilling for insight is...
From Putting People First
Content and the journey: Building a good user experience for news sites
Discussions at recent news industry conferences have often referred to the importance of good user experience, particularly during discussions about how news outlets...
From Schneier on Security
"Ask Nicely" Doesn't Work as a Security Mechanism
Apple's map application shows more of Taiwan than Google Maps: The Taiwanese government/military, like many others around the world, requests that satellite imagery...
From Computational Complexity
Why Does College Cost So Much?
When John Hennessey gave his talk on MOOCs at the CRA Snowbird meeting he recommended the book Why Does College Cost So Much? by Robert Archibald and David Feldman...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Award for Aspiration in Computing 2012 Reminder
Time for a reminder. Now that school has been underweight for a while you may have identified some young women who would be good candidates for the NCWIT Award....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Explaining Analytics
I often have to explain analytics and modeling to people. Just today I had a meeting with a client who needed to understand the value of analytics and modeling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lego and Open Innovation
From IdeaConnection: Good piece about how Iconic toymaker Lego uses open innovation. " ... Lego is an open innovation pioneer, one of the first companies to...
From The Eponymous Pickle