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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
Power Outlets that Can Control Use
A development by Sony. This looks good, but also limits some of the expectations we have grown to expect from readily accessible power outlets. Not unexpected...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Labs AI Exec Joins Saffron Technology
Reported Today. I have now had to pleasure of working with Dr. Hofmann several times in AI related applications .... " Saffron Technology, Inc., a privately...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hunting Advertising
Making advertising something you have to hunt for. A game dynamic of a different kind. Changes the context of a space to engagement rather than just pasted on...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE AD Issues Letter to Community on FY 13 Budget Rollout
NSF/CISE Assistant Director
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Brands Grow
I had the need to look at How Brands Grow, by Byron Sharp again. A really great book that inspires me to look at the numbers behind brand growth again. It is...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Magic Numbers Are Bad
I had my friend Clint Rutkas review some code of mine. Now I have been writing code longer than Clint has been alive but he
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Enhanced Innovation
IBM on how the cloud can drive new, innovative business models. A largely non technical post with some useful thoughts.
From Schneier on Security
Trust Requires Transparency
Adam Shostack explains to Verisign that trust requires transparency. This is a lesson Path should have learned.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF
The deadline for preliminary proposals to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) next Expeditions in Computing
From Michael Nielsen
How you can help the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) become law
As many of you no doubt know, the Federal
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science e-Book from AnalyticsBridge
A first draft of a data science e-Book available for free from the AnalyticBridge social network for analytics professionals. . From business analytics professionals...
From My Biased Coin
A Systems Complaint
I think of myself as a person who works both in systems and theory. And I've found that's often a challenging position. I've been vocal before that I think theory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iPads in the Bedroom
A recent survey shows that most tablets are used at home rather than on the road. And in the bedroom, where this post says tablets have become a fixture. (68%...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Twitter Serious?
David Carr on the implied seriousness of Tweets. He makes some interesting points about the difficulty of considering a communications channel very informal, but...
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SuperBetter Labs
Some game designers have put together a system that lets you join an all star team. SuperBetter is an online, social game designed to help you build up personal...
From Wild WebMink
? Eric Whitacre
Back in December I mentioned that Eric Whitacre’s wonderful choral album “Light and Gold” [Amazon UK | Amazon US] had been nominated for a Grammy award. Well …...
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers Update
Liars and Outliers is available. Amazon and Barnes & Noble have ben shipping the book since the beginning of the month. Both the Kindle and the Nook versionsordered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redefine the employee
With changes in how people communicate, in both social and technical terms, we need to think of new ways to vaul e people. More thoughts in Chief Learning Officer...
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