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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
My History of the Internet
Have been reading much lately about how the Internet emerged. Debating how it was funded. It happened I experienced much of it first as an early user at the Pentagon...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Reading A Speech
How to read a speech, if you must George Peterson is the President of the Georgia Institute of Technology, but he likes to be called "Bud." He is our eleventh president...
From Putting People First
What marketing executives should know about user experience
“What marketing executives should know about user experience” is the title of a short and introductory piece, mainly aimed at marketing people, by Nick Myers, managing...
From Putting People First
Social media’s neoliberal world view (and how it affects us all)
Recently I have embarked on trying to understand better the underlying ideology and world view of the Silicon Valley tech scene, and how this is impacting our daily...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What We are Learning about Online Education
A TED video by Daphne Koller of Coursera" ... enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Caerus Analytics
Brought to my attention. Caerus Analytics. " ... pushes the boundaries of social and data science to find meaning in complexity. We develop rigorous, innovative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Hands
Helping the disabled, at home and office ... with fundamentally re-designed robot hand. In Engadget. Video.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Psychobiological Bases of Personality
Christophe Morin on this intriguing topic. With links to a number of papers on the subject, from Pavlov and beyond. Particularly key to see aspects other than...
From Wild WebMink
Hiring For Core Values
Back at Sun, I believe much of the blame for the company’s failure between 2001 and 2004 – from which the later, otherwise successful open source and hardware appliance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Massively Available Online Courses
What will the response be from classic educational venues? Considering a strategic response.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hive Group London Medals Treemap
The Hive group provides a treemap data visualization map for medals at the London 2012 Olympics. Among a gallery of other visualization examples for complex data...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: SQUIDS and Quantum Computing
It seems that quantum computers might use superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Creatures
In HBR: I found this idea of creatures for a brand interesting because I had a project that tried to integrate Mr. Clean and the use of artificial intelligence....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Supply Chain Innovations
In SCIDigest: This approach is becoming increasingly common. " ... Supply Chain News: Unilever Says Its Supplier Partnership Program is Paying Big Dividends ...
From Wild WebMink
The Open Source Stimulus Plan
My column for InfoWorld this week considers the unseen value open source brings into the economy, and references this keynote from OSCON by Tim O’Reilly.
From Schneier on Security
Unsafe Safes
In a long article about insecurities in gun safes, there's this great paragraph: Unfortunately, manufacturers and consumers are deceived and misled into a false...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Local Professional Development Rocks!
Last week I was honored to present and attend CSTA Rocks Ohio! in Columbus, Ohio. This workshop, sponsored by CSTA and Google, was attended by 35 other CS educators...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A post-industrial point of view
We can roughly sketch human history as follows: Initially, everything was expensive for human beings. Farming made food cheap. The industrial revolution made goods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Tech SuperMarkets
Nothing very new here. But in Mashable, a list and vendor overview of advanced, often mobile tech being seen increasingly often in the supermarket. Though most...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog