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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
OMB, OSTP Seeking Input on Grants, Cooperative Agreements
Late last month, the
From Schneier on Security
Australian Security Theater
I like the quote at the end of this excerpt: Aviation officials have questioned the need for such a strong permanent police presence at airports, suggesting they...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 March 2012
Have you gotten the free software tools to develop for Windows Phone 7.5 and Xbox LIVE Indie Games Please take a look at these great resources. By the way I have...
From Putting People First
Donald A. Norman and Roberto Verganti on incremental vs radical innovation
Donald A. Norman (of the Nielsen Norman Group) and Roberto Verganti (Politecnico di Milano) have jointly published a paper entitled “Incremental and Radical Innovation...
From Putting People First
User experience vision for startups
In a TechCrunch guest post by Uzi Shmilovici, CEO and founder of Future Simple, outlines how he came to the conclusion that there
From Putting People First
Four new chapters on interaction-design.org
Four new chapters of the interaction-design.org resource are now available: Requirements Engineering from an HCI Perspective by Alistair G. Sutcliffe The chapter...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What has caught my attention lately:Videos showing Windows 8 is horribly painful for most people, looks likely to be another Windows Vista-like flop. Really worth...
From Writing
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Scala, Day 2
After a bumpy start with Scala on Day 1, I've moved onto the second day of Scala in Seven Languages in Seven Weeks.Scala, Day 2: ThoughtsThe second Scala chapter...
From Wild WebMink
? Making Google+ Work
I sometimes see complaints by people that Google+ is not as exciting and/or useful as a social media service they are already using, like Twitter or Facebook. They...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What's the State of (CS Ed in) Your State?
Jonathan Osborne The March issue of the a certification requirements for teachers who teach CS courses. In Georgia's state-approved curriculum, CS courses fall...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Illusory Superiority
A cognitive bias called the Dunning-Kruger effect. " ... In short, a person
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Does a Big Enterprise Deliver Data?
How does a big enterprise like Procter & Gamble securely deliver data in near real time to its decision makers? By using a system like Business Sphere, an internally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interest Graphs
I love the idea of using graphs to understand connectivity. We experimented with it many times using enterprise data. Walter Riker sends along a linkfrom GigaOM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata Integrated Analytics
While I was at P&G and Teradata was still part of NCR, we had NCR sales registers as part of our environment. I had the opportunity to work with some TeradataPortfolio...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Translations Retain Sound of Your Voice
From Microsoft Research:" ... Research software from Microsoft synthesizes speech in a foreign language, but in a voice that sounds like yours. ... Researchers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science at the World Economic Forum
The following is a special contribution to the CCC Blog by Stephanie Forrest, professor of computer science at the University of New Mexico — and until recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pre-Thinking vs Scenario Planning
In Innovation Excellence: Forecasting is a long term interest. I have taught it and implemented it in corporate systems. There are many styles, from using...
From Writing