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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 Schneier on Security
Detect Which Social Networking Sites Website Visitors Are Logged Into
Clever hack.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It Doesn
Recently someone posted the following question and bit of code to the Advanced Placement Computer Science teacher mailing list: Assuming that all values are ints...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sports Analytics: Beyond Moneyball
Excellent article in Informs' Analytics Magazine. With links back to some detailed analytical studies in the sports industry. May of these same thoughts can"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughtful Risk Taking
From Knowledge@Wharton: Kodak and MasterCard. Kodak is a company I have followed for many years, and even interacted with in the innovation space. How could"...
From Wild WebMink
? Scutter Prototypes
In the humourous cult sci-fi TV series Red Dwarf, which is set aboard a space ship far in the future, the ship is cleaned and maintained by odd-job-robots called...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Invests in Internet Marketing
More Internet data leverage: " ... Unilever and Nielsen announce an agreement for the use of Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings reach, frequency and gross rating point...
From Putting People First
Nudging consumers into making better life choices
Designers are beginning to understand how irrational thinking plays into the decisions people make, writes Rob Girling of Artefact. That knowledge can be used to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Illumishare
Microsoft's Illumishare. A virtual reality effort by Microsoft that allows the mixing of the virtual and real. The video emphasizes education examples, but...
From Computational Complexity
The Erdos- de Bruijn theorem
The mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn passed away on Feb 17, 2012. The number of things named after him is quite large. I will discuss the Erdos-de Bruijn...
From Putting People First
Connected homes for connected people
The French think tank Fing (who was also behind the LIFT France event last year) collaborated last year with VIA, Promotelec, Renault Group, La Poste, Minatec Laboratory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Performance Analytics
SAS's always insightful Jim Goodnight, on high performance analytics.
From Wild WebMink
? Pratchett Does Sci-Fi
My attention was drawn to a new direction that fantasy author Terry Pratchett is taking. His Discworld series has been a huge success among a wide circle of people...
From Schneier on Security
FBI Special Agent and Counterterrorism Expert Criticizes the TSA
Good essay. Nothing I haven't said before, but it's good to hear it from someone with a widely different set of credentials than I have.
From Putting People First
Habits are the new viral: why startups must be behavior experts
The economic value of web businesses increasingly depends on the strength of the habitual behavior of their users, argues Nir Eyal on Techcrunch. These habits ultimately...
From Putting People First
Two more posts by Sam Ladner on corporate ethnography
After her much talked about piece “Does corporate ethnography suck?” – which presented a cultural analysis of academics critiques of industry ethnography as a second...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft at SIGCSE 2012
For the first time in several years I am not attending SIGCSE this week. I
From The Eponymous Pickle