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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
Crowd Sourcing Examples
A group of interesting examples of the use of Crowd Sourcing. I don't agree that Crowd Sourcing is always a smarter solution, but it should be considered. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
David Gelernter on the Internet School
In the WSJ: Good thoughts, I still like focusing the human touch, but lets use all the tools available: The Friendly, Neighborhood Internet School We have the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Lockers
In Innovation Excellence: In some locations you can have your Amazon shipment delivered to a locker that you can access 24 hours a day. You are emailed a one...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management
Soon to be published by a colleague: : Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management, byLaurence J. Laning and, Timothy J. Kloppenborg. Appears to"...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“How Big Data Became So Big”;New York Times Cites CCC White Papers
In an article published on The New York Times’ website this afternoon, the newspaper’s technology writer Steve Lohr describes the history and evolution of “Big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speed and Innovation
Blocking speed blocks innovation. Often yes, but the the scale-speed of the innovation matters. Early speed to trim ideas, is usually good ... but once down the...
From Wild WebMink
Freedom To Create
Sometimes we think software freedom just applies to programmers, but its creative impact can be much broader. This animated video is pretty clever: While it’s called...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Individualized Pricing
The NYT discusses how and why people can be given individualized prices for goods. If course this has been done for a long time. Through promotions. Loyalty...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarming Drones
Boeing demonstrates swarming drones. Which reminds me of long ago projects that looked at how simple,uni-purpose, cheap and even disposable robotics could be...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dumpling Squid
The sex life of the dumpling squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
Termite Suicide Bombers
Some termites blow themselves up to expel invaders from their nest.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Seeking RAPID Proposals on Tsunami Debris Field Threats
Several directorates within the National Science Foundation (NSF) — including Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) — issued a Dear Colleague...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Natural Language Analysis
Of Interest: Another DARPA example I have just examined. Automated, deep natural-language understanding technology may hold a solution for more efficiently processing...
From Wild WebMink
Influence vs Control
My article for InfoWorld this week considers three different projects – OmniOS (derived from Illumos, the new name given to OpenSolaris), GitHub and OpenStack –...
From Schneier on Security
11-Year-Old Bypasses Airport Security
Sure, stories like this are great fun, but I don't think it's much of a security concern. Terrorists can't build a plot around random occasional security failures...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Public Sector TechBytes Series
http://aka.ms/fzytjrTopicTechBytes Windows 8 Development for Government, Healthcare...
From My Biased Coin
Distracting Videos
Jeff Erickson gets the blame for pointing out this amusing/disturbing video on counting. I feel like I should make it a background video before my undergraduate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
One Best Supply Chain Metric
In the Supply Chain Digest. David Schneider suggests that the one best supply chain metric is Operating Cash flow, or OCF. I admit I had to think about that...
From Schneier on Security
Rolling Stone Magazine Writes About Computer Security
It's a virus that plays AC/DC, so it makes sense. Surreal, though. Another article.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog