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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Cure for the CS Blues
Are you the only CS Teacher in your district? In your area? Are you feeling the pressure of trying to promote a curriculum that the schools/states do not always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revisiting P&G's Connect & Develop
Fast Company on P&G's Connect & Develop Approach. Good article on the purpose and direction of P&G's outsourcing of innovation using Connect and Develop. I would...
From Computational Complexity
CCC12: Post 1 of n
(Post 1 of n on CCC 2012. I don't know how large n is yet.) I will discuss the papers in the order they were presented. June 26, 2012. Morning Amplifying Circuit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Immersive Visualization
From Mindjet: Good overview of the concept of immersing yourself, and your business teams, in your data. I have covered the broad idea a number of times.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 July 2012
The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit starts today (about noon eastern US time) Much of it will be streamed at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PC Sales Slump
PC Sales are decreasing. Good statistics. Traditional sales leaders like HP and Dell are getting hit with the expectation of the company and worker that software...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Meaningful Use of Complex Medical Data
Organizers of the second annual symposium on Meaningful Use of Complex Medical Data (MUCMD)
From Putting People First
The Machine and The Ghost
Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things Peter-Paul Verbeek University of Chicago Press, 2011 183 pages (Amazon link) Christine...
From Putting People First
The psychology of content design
In a long article Jonathan Cutrell talks about a strategy for creating content that revolves around its portability to multiple scenarios, devices, and access frames...
From Putting People First
How Google is becoming an extension of your mind
Stephen Shankland thinks that Google is becoming an extension of your mind, an omnipresent digital assistant that figures out what you need and supplies it before...
From Putting People First
That
Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan argue in the New York Times Sunday Review that the device in your purse or jeans that you think is a cellphone, is in fact a tracking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Health Care via Big Data
In GigaOM: Not much detail here, but lots of players mentioned. It is not only the idea of Big Data, but sometimes even just some data, intelligently sharing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interview with Alan Kay
Good interview with Alan Kay. Developer of Smalltalk. We talked to him long ago about the use of 'object oriented' methods for making development more efficient...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comment Thoughts
Anyone who runs a blog has noticed that there are sharply increasing amounts of Spam being received. I approve all comments to this blog. I cannot approve anything...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Replace Personal Relationships
Cooking information like recipes are a typical currency exchanged in families. Now that is being replaced by online resources. I have noticed that in my own cooking...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
It Don
Hitting hardness makes a 30-year-old conjecture harder Alan Selman is one of the founders of Complexity Theory, both through his deep research and his unselfish...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five National Parks on Streetview
A further archiving of our landscape. Very nicely done. Tour the parks from your armchair. As an amateur botanist this allows me to link to specific plants...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AFOSR to Hold 60th Anniversary Event This Fall
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has announced plans for a daylong event this fall marking its 60th anniversary. The conference and exhibit —...
From The Eponymous Pickle