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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
ThinkVine Links with KBM Group
Press release. A good example of analytic and knowledge management in key marketing applications: ".... KBM Group, the global leader in knowledge-based marketing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Dept. of Education Releases Learning Analytics Issue Brief
The Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Educational Technology today released a draft issue brief — Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conceptual Modeling
Thoughts on the application and value of conceptual modeling for Big Data Applications.
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's Free Sustainability Analysis Tool
P&G is making a spreadsheet based sustainability tool freely available. More here. " ... The Excel-based tool, launched last year, enables companies to measure...
From Putting People First
Meet Google
James Temple of the San Francisco Chronicle profiles Daniel Russell (video), Google’s search scientist (or as he calls it “search anthropologist”). “About four...
From My Biased Coin
Talk at Hearst Mining....
Giorgos is on a west coast tour this week. Today he's speaking at the Berkeley EconCS seminar on our work on Groupon and Yelp. 12:30, 410 Hearst Mining. Info ...
From Schneier on Security
Teenagers and Privacy
Good article debunking the myth that young people don't care about privacy on the Intenet. Most kids are well aware of risks, and make "fairly sophisticated" decisions...
From Computational Complexity
I'll be on that list until the day I die. Or later.
How hard is it to get OFF of lists? Univ of MD at College Park (UMCP) Professor Carl Smith was an editor for JCSS before his death in 2004. I put together a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Opportunities for Retail
In Progressive Grocer: An engagement study is previewed;Print and online circulars are almost neck and neck in helpfulness, but recipes and apps are drivingBrick...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Overview
In the Atlantic: A good, very non-technical overview of data mining. Lots of people are asking these days. " ... Big data is everywhere we look these days....
From The Eponymous Pickle
FlexTime and TeleWork Leading to Better Knowledge Management
I have been working in recent days with a company on how collaboration can be improved. Here an article on TeleWork. Saving money, and also leading to better...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OSTP Announces Grand Challenges Conference;CCC Seeking Your Topic Ideas
Yesterday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
dream.build.play reminder
The dream.build.play challenge is still wide open for people looking to take their Windows Phone or Xbox 360 game to the next level and win some big prizes....
From Wild WebMink
A New Kind Of
As wave after wave of privacy news arrives, it’s easy to believe that public postings on social media sites are the problem. But I believe we are facing an issue...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
What Double Fine Adventure Means to Me
The very first feature-length games I played were point and click adventures. I have particularly fond memories of King's Quest and Day of the Tentacle. But those...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
A Plea for the Return of Affirmative Action Programs
A bit of a shaggy dog story....in the summer of 1975 I participated in the Bell Laboratories summer program for women and minorities. I spent the summer evaluating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Machines Overtaking Man
What happens when creative machines overtake us? Can machines be creative? We examined this for the product development context. It did not lead to anything...
From Putting People First
From banker to service designer
Olga Morawczysnki, project Manager of Grameen Foundation
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog