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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
Pringles Completes Sales to Kelloggs
I don't usually include enterprise activity that is not technical here, but I was involved in the Pringles, Folgers and other Food business for a while so this...
From Putting People First
The Curious Case of Internet Privacy
Free services in exchange for personal information. That’s the “privacy bargain” we all strike on the Web. Cory Doctorow argues it could be the worst deal ever....
From Putting People First
Why are contextual inquiries so difficult?
Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, thinks contextual inquiry is the most difficult user research technique to perform effectively, as it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Smarter IBM Analytics
The quantity of financial sector data is increasing at some 70% a year, says an article in CIO. So it is clear that even if small and medium, size businesses don't...
From Wild WebMink
It
Now the UK’s open standards consultation is over, let’s get back to basics. All these power plugs didn’t give us more choice – they instead inconvenienced us all...
From Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2012)
I'm at the Fifth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, SHB 2012. Google is hosting this year, at its offices in lower Manhattan. SHB is an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SimCity and Facebook
I have had an interest in SimCity since its early days. Executives came to us soon after its launch to ask if we could produce a similar simulation for the entire...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Visual Intelligence
From SAP " ... launched new data visualization software that taps into one of its standby BI releases and relies heavily on HANA, the in-memory database that
From Schneier on Security
Interesting Article on Libyan Internet Intelligence Gathering
This is worth reading, for the insights it provides on how a country goes about monitoring its citizens in the information age: a combination of targeted attacks...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
There Is More To Computing Than Computer Science
Last week Doug Peterson pointed me to an article called
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Tech Review Goes Digital First
I have read MIT's Digital Review for many years, it used to be my prime source for digital information, long before there was much rich forward looking contentMore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Analysis
For those interested in Bayesian Network Analysis as a modeling technique, I see that BayesiaLab has come out with a new version with many new capabilities. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Can be too Rational
In the Sloan Review: I agree that you can over quantify. But you should not ignore the numbers either. Its also good to think about the exogenous interactions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
English Skills for Key Contexts
Correspondent John Lucke tells me about some of the work they are doing at Carnegie Speech to increase English proficiency among airline pilots. This was written...
From Computational Complexity
Which Books to Keep?
Moving is an excuse to go through your possessions and weed out what you don't need anymore. Over my professional life I've collected two large bookcases full of...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Transcendental Aspects of Turing Machines
Mathematical effects of the Hartmanis-Stearns conjecture David Champernowne is one of a select few to have a number named for him. His number is obtained by writing...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Confusion Between Computer Science and Computer Programming
Are we getting mixed up between computer science and computer programming? Are degrees in the former trying to train more people for the latter? Is any of thisJason...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Diet Glasses
Another example of augmented reality. And an application of integrating wearable devices to adjust your sensory data view. I wonder how such a method will be...
From Wild WebMink