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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Little Things Matter When Learning Math
I recently started tutoring someone for grade 11 college prep1 math. Our first topic was trigonometric equations for solving triangles. When my student got stuck...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Optimization as a Big Data Problem
A very interesting article in the SAS Blog. " ... One of the areas that high-performance analytics has the potential to improve is marketing optimization....
From Computational Complexity
The Internet of the Present
On this blog we rarely get non-spam comments on posts more than a few days old. Sometimes I can bring up a topic I had posted on just a few months ago and no one...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 5
March 6 Hearing: The Science and Space Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on research and development...
From Schneier on Security
Themes from the RSA Conference
Last week was the big RSA Conference in San Francisco: something like 20,000 people. From what I saw, these were the major themes on the show floor: Companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Documenting the Human Face of Big Data
A photographic project. What is it and what are its implications? More here.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Titan Trading and Recorded Future Predictive Signals
I have been working with and testing some of the predictive analytics capabilities of RecordedFuture for some time now. You can test it for yourself at the link...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi Urges Speed and Data Gathering
In CPGMatters: " ... The food industry needs to speed up the way it collects data, develops products, reduces days of inventory, and deals with the convergence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Books Interrupt Themselves
In The NY Times Media and Advertising Section: I have pondered this recently as I have started to use e-Books more often. My smartphone and pad readers interrupt...
From Putting People First
Low2No featured in ARUP Design Yearbook 2011
The Design Yearbook 2011 of ARUP — the global firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists that Experientia collaborated with on...
From Putting People First
How to manufacture desire
Nir Eyal continues his article series on Techcrunch (see also “Habits are the new viral“) with a short essay on manufacturing desire. “Companies increasingly find...
From Putting People First
Book: The Transition Companion
The Transition Companion: making your community more resilient in uncertain times by Rob Hopkins Chelsea Green Pub Co, November 2011 320 pages Abstract In 2008,...
From Putting People First
Book: The Power of Habit
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg Random House, February 2012 400 pages Abstract In The Power of Habit, award-winning...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 March 2012
I took some vacation days last week. Here in New Hampshire the weather has been wild. On Tuesday I went kayaking with my son and on Thursday we had a major snow...
From The Noisy Channel
Humans, Machines, and the Dimensions of Microwork
As per my previous post, I had a great time at the O’Reilly Strata Conference. It was a delight to participate in such a fantastic gathering of folks who work with...
From Putting People First
Life 2.0 supporting elderly people
The Life 2.0 project is a EU funded project that aims at supporting elderly people
From Putting People First