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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
Mining Medical Records
A view with data visualizations. In particular, linking unexpected associations. " ... Big data analytics have enabled researchers at the Massachusetts Institute...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Watson Turns Medic”
New Scientist published an interesting story last week describing how Watson – the IBM question-answering supercomputer that bested the world’s leading human competitors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Legacy and Future of Television
With it go away soon? In Harvard Business blogs. Probably not, the blog suggests there will be a number of disruptions and even transformations. But the broad...
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On the Language of Data Science
Useful definitions, also the reminder that Data Science is not only about the data, but also the analytics that will be used with the data, and the business processes...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Inspired You?
As the school year rolls around again, what professional development did you participate in that inspired you for the new year? I recently attended a CS4HS session...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Useful Download Links for Windows 8 and Windows Phone Development
Part of my job is to help people find valuable resources. I especially like it when they are free. Free is good. These links are for students, faculty and professional...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 August 2012
Back to school hit home today as my wife went back to school for the first day of teachers. Kids come back the day after Labor Day so it is professional development...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Recapping the 2012 MUCMD Symposium
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Suchi Saria, a 2011 Computing Innovation Fellow who recently joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boosting Research Productivity
With zResearch, via Zakta, who I have talked to a number of times. A way to curate research via search. Aiming to add social interaction and collaboration to...
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Martian Diaries
The Curiosity blog. A background and long interest in astrophysics has me watching this closely. See also the mission site.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive is Smarter
Writes Christopher Conradi in Smarter Planet. Predictive maintenance is nothing new. We have done it in manufacturing for many years. What is new is the ability...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“A Hardware Renaissance”
An interesting article in The New York Times this weekend about the resurgence of hardware prototyping in the Bay Area: In recent years, Silicon Valley seems to...
From Computational Complexity
Knuth Prize
Leonid Levin will receive the Knuth Prize, and give the corresponding lecture, at FOCS this year. The Knuth Prize is jointly given by ACM SIGACT and the IEEE TC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Stethoscope
The iconic medical sensor the stethoscope is attached to a smartphone and connected to the cloud for a specific diagnosis task, finding children's pneumonia worldwide...
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Consumers Ready for Mobile Payments?
Are consumers ready? When we first examined the problem it was clear they were not ready. Now things have changed, and within only a few years many will be using...
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Blog Experimentation
This blog has been around for a very long time. Once a mirror for a blog within a large enterprise. Now in the midst of experimenting with changes in its use...
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And Further: Why the @ Sign?
The Smithsonian looks at other needs we did not know we had. Here the emergence of the @ sign. The simple drawing of a concept. Once a rarely used key on a typewriter...
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Simplifying Innovation
Good thoughts on simplification of innovation in Innovation excellence. Proposed by John Brooker, inspired by an incident with bicycle gears, a " ... three...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Invention of Deodorant
Out of the Smithsonian Magazine: On the invention of deodorant. The classic history of the marketing of solutions we did not completely understand that we had...
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