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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 Computational Complexity
A new kind of Spam
(In this post I quote attempted posts to the blog. I transcribe them as they are, so if you see a missing period or awkward language, its not me (this time) its...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IBM’s Watson Collaborating with MDs
A couple weeks ago, we featured the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) release of a new landmark study titled Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning...
From Putting People First
Latest RSA Animate on the truth about dishonesty
In this new RSA Animate, Dan Ariely, bestselling author and professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University, explores the circumstances under...
From Putting People First
Book: Observing the User Experience
Observing the User Experience A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research by Elizabeth Goodman, PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pentaho and Cisco Partner for Big Data Analytcs
In A Press Release: We did lots of work with Cisco, especially in the retail space with devices that enabled price checking. Was involved in a number of innovation...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Teaching Students About Their Digital Footprints
This year my high school added a new course that is a survey course for computing. One of the first lessons we did covered what a digital footprint was; how it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Mobile is Remaking Marketing
A useful presentation by correspondent Phil Hendrix of Immr and GigaOM. Contains a number of good case studies on the subject.
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerability in Windows 8 Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
This is the first one discovered, I think.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast Decisions Better than Perfect Data
In Information Management: Under some conditions, and with care. But a good point, what we called 'quick and dirty' analysis is sometimes very valuable to understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Advanced Data Visualization Analytics
Visualization is a form of analytics that integrates the power of human visual processing. Such visualization works best when integrated with analytical methods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target Uses Passbook
Target stores has announced that they will be providing coupons through Apples' Passbook App, available on the new IOS6 operating system on iPhones.
From The Eponymous Pickle
ConAgra View of Innovation
ConAgra's view of innovation. They rightly view an important element is information directly from customers. And the ability to construct platform based solutions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Design be Free
'Design wants to be Free', the article paraphrases Stewart Brand. But what are the implications for low cost and universally available design? Universally create...
From Putting People First
Why user-centered design is not enough, by John Wood
John Wood, Emeritus Professor of Design at Goldsmiths, University of London, argues on Core77 that the user-centered mindset is based on a one-dimensional map in...
From Schneier on Security
SHA-3 to Be Announced
NIST is about to announce the new hash algorithm that will become SHA-3. This is the result of a six-year competition, and my own Skein is one of the five remaining...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Humanitarian Response and CRICIS — A Report from a Grassroots Workshop
The following is a contribution to this blog from Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the Center for Robot-Assisted...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 September 2012
Happy Monday. Well try to start the day with a big smile until you actually feel like smiling. It works. Trust me on that. Last week a lot of things crossed myNCWIT...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Mobility Design Center
An intriguing effort by SAP to look at design in mobility. With some similarities to our own innovation center work, which in part supported design of many kinds...
From The Eponymous Pickle