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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 Putting People First
Dr Paul Bernal on the right to be forgotten
What is the right to be forgotten? How could it work
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research in a world of big data
In her final piece on ethnographic research in a world of big data (see earlier posts), Jenna Burrell, sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surveying the Marketing Industry
In Analytics Magazine from Informs: IBM surveys the marketing industry, providing some interesting statistics about the relationship of IT and marketing needs....
From Wild WebMink
Google Uses Famous Users As G+ Test Team
The Google Plus team turned on a new feature today while it was being announced at Google IO in San Francisco. Google+ Events is a new feature that integrates Google...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Modeling Effective CS Professional Development
Last month, the National Science Foundation sponsored a workshop on creating high-impact professional development experiences for K-12 computer science teachers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Individual Price Tags Disappearing
In the state of Massachussets, individual price tags may no longer be required on store items, if a new bill is passed. Replaced by individual digital scanners...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Root
Always interested in new ways to make complex data, processes, sensors and their interrelationships as clear as possible to the decision makers. And make theHere...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Meet the High School Girls Who Had to Take CS
There's an article from Betabeat making its rounds in the women in tech community: Eight Real Tales of Learning Computer Science as a High School Girl. I found...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Retail
Mobile is changing retail at a remarkable speed. We saw the implications of this very early on, before the smartphone. A text based phone like the Blackberry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Predictive Analytics to Work
Good Computerworld article. Emphasizing that it does not require a big budget, but does require business understanding and sponsors to agree that this is a priority...
From Computational Complexity
Transitions
On July 1 I officially move jobs from Northwestern to Georgia Tech, a change not just in location but in role as I become a department chair. I'm proud by what...
From Schneier on Security
Top Secret America on the Post-9/11 Cycle of Fear and Funding
I'm reading Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin. Both work for The Washington Post. The book...
From Schneier on Security
Russian Nuclear Launch Code Backup Procedure
If the safe doesn't open, use a sledgehammer: The sledgehammer's existence first came to light in 1980, when a group of inspecting officers from the General Staff...
From Putting People First
UCI to lead national social computing research center, led by Paul Dourish
UC Irvine will anchor a new $12.5 million, Intel-funded research center that applies social science and humanities to the design and analysis of digital information...
From Schneier on Security
E-Mail Accounts More Valuable than Bank Accounts
This informal survey produced the following result: "45% of the users found their email accounts more valuable than their bank accounts." The author believes this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interview with Target CMO
In Forbes: What is in Store for the Brand. Overview mention of a number of issues the big retailer is dealing with in marketing and merchandising, for example...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Which is fastest: read, fread, ifstream or mmap?
If you program in C/C++, you have many options to read files: The standard C library offers a low-level read function. It is as simple as it gets. The standard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Media Influence on Purchasing Decisions
A research brief on media influence. " ... According to The Media Comparisons Study, from TVB with Knowledge Networks, consumers credit TV ads as most influential...
From The Eponymous Pickle