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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
Funding of Innovation
In Technology Review: On the funding of innovation. The thoughts of Nathan Myhrvold.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Find The Bug
The big problem I have with using professional quality sample code in class is that it is too professional. By that what I mean is that it is too complete and often...
From Apophenia
Free Speech, Context, and Visibility: Protesting Racist Ads
On Tuesday, Egyptian-American activist Mona Eltahawy was arrested for “criminal mischief” – or “the willful damaging of property” – when she responded to disturbingly...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Microsoft Groundbreaking Speech and Report on CS Education
Today Microsoft's General Counsel Brad Smith spoke at the Brookings Institution at an event on education and immigration reform and the presentation (and the report...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vanishing Electronics
Research into disappearing electronics. Electronic 'pills' that dissolve inside the body after their function is done.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics in Action Talk
Analytics In Action: What do Jeopardy, Pampers and Major League Baseball have in Common?A number of my former colleagues will be presenting. October 24, 2012Full...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones Provide Economic Data
An economist looks at how smartphones are a gold mine of economic data. " ... An economist taps into payment apps for their every financial transaction ... "
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
GNS Healthcare and Aetna Collaborate to Make Use of Big Data
GNS Healthcare, a healthcare analytics company and Aetna, an American managed health care organization, are collaborating to make use of GNS’ supercomputer “REFS”...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Tracking
One of the first technologies we experimented with in the enterprise retail laboratory was ShopperTrak. To understand how we could use analytics generated by...
From Schneier on Security
Replacing Alice and Bob
A proposal to replace cryptography's Alice and Bob with Sita and Rama: Any book on cryptography invariably involves the characters Alice and Bob. It is always...
From Computational Complexity
Things a Complexity Theorist Should Do At Least Once
A few weeks ago, Suresh wrote a post Things a TCSer should have done at least once with the caveat This list is necessarily algorithms-biased. I doubt you'll need...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Location Analytics
In another move, Cisco is acquiring mobility analytics and Wifi network location player Thinksmart Technologies of Dublin. The company tracks the location of people...
From Wild WebMink
MySQL FUD Claim Needs Action, Not Words
A chance encounter at the OFE Summit in Brussels, coupled with a provocative statement by an Oracle VP, lead me to believe it’s time for Oracle to come out of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Creativity In Computer Science
I was reading a blog post titled Creating creative portfolios by Deepa Muralidhar the other day that really got me thinking of this whole notion of creativity in...
From Putting People First
Aaron Marcus publishes (free) ebook about HCI in Sci-Fi
The Past 100 Years of the Future: Sci-Fi and HCI in Movies and Television by Aaron Marcus 2012 – 197 pages On 24 August 2012, AM+A published its first ebook, The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value Added Showrooming
Good piece by David Bell of Wharton on Showrooming. " ... With the rise in popularity of smartphones and the proliferation of online retailers, showrooming -...
From Wild WebMink
Apparently the weather is getting cooler…
“Please can you find me a blanket as well?”, Welcome to Autumn. I’d sensed a chill in the air, but my cat confirmed it for me…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rules and Decision Management
The large enterprise can think about how to systematize their business processes and the rules that they use to make decisions. This has often been difficult for...
From The Eponymous Pickle