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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
iPhone and iPad Photography
In GigaOM: On advanced uses of the iPhone and iPad. This leads me to thinking about tablets and smartphones as sensory devices. How can you provide information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Silos
A frequent situation in the large organization. Because different areas are not seen as competent to recognize useful innovations in others. One answer is to...
From Wild WebMink
OSI Membership In Two Minutes
I was approached in the OSI booth at OSCON to explain OSI’s membership categories. That URL again: opensource.org/join
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Tentacle Doorstop
Now this is neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA I2O Director at the Computer History Museum
Dan Kaufman, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Information Innovation Office (I2O), was interviewed on Tuesday evening by New...
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers Summed Up in Two Comic Strips
I don't know the context, but these strips sum up my latest book nicely.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics and Decision in Health Care
Tom Davenport on new frontiers in health care via analytics. I agree, the frontier has arrived in the form of accessible data, sensors and readily available analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media and the Olympics
Have been following the use of social media by Procter & Gamble and others in conjunction with the Games. This article has a good overview of a number of efforts...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AHRQ Requesting Information on Health Quality Measurements
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a Request for Information (RFI),...
From Wild WebMink
HP, Open Source and OpenStack
While HP was making plenty of noise at OSCON about its deployment of OpenStack as HP Cloud, it was the discovery that they have moved their open source program...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microstyle: Writing Little
Reading: Microstyle, The Art of Writing Little, by Christopher Johnson. About the rise of compressed writing in things like branding and social networks. So...
From Schneier on Security
Criminals Using Commercial Spamflooding Services
Cybercriminals are using commercial spamflooding services to distract their victims during key moments of a cyberattack. Clever, but in retrospect kind of obvious...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Package Goods Beats Sales Expectaton
All but one major packaged goods company has exceeded sales expectations. Spending increases. The pressure is on. In AdAge.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Intelligence and Advanced Data Discovery
Manny Aparicio of Saffron Technology sends along this note and links to supporting video:"At this year’s Gartner BI Summit in Los Angeles, Rita Sallam identified...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Curriculum is Hard
I’ve been involved in a number of curriculum projects over the years. The big one has been the ACM/IEEE CS 2013 task force that is making recommendations on undergraduate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Labs and Social Shopping
In ReadWriteWeb: Another look at Wal-Mart Labs. I like to think that they were inspired somewhat by our work. " ... “Transaction data often works, but it...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Interest in K-12 Policy Growing
I just returned from the Snowbird Conference in Utah and I was astounded at the level of attendee interest in education policy issues relating to computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Unshredding Challenge
In CACM: Solved it says. I encountered a related problem very early in my enterprise career. Not involved with anything secret. We partially solved the problem...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplified Programming for Expertise
Domain Specific Languages (DSL) have been proposed for years to bring the capability of computer programming to the non computing domain expert. By formulatingComputerWorld...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog