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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 Putting People First
Business ethnography as a key strategy for international brands
Two interesting posts by Danish photographer and visual ethnographer Jacob Langvad Nilsson: Business ethnography as a key strategy for international brands When...
From Putting People First
Book: Applying Anthropology in the Global Village
Applying Anthropology in the Global Village Edited by Christina Wasson, Mary Odell Butler and Jacqueline Copeland-Carson Left Coast Press – November 2011 – 326...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maps in Data Visualization
Examples of the use of geographical maps in visualizations. Examination of the types is useful. " ... Maps are probably the biggest subsection of visualization...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Fun versus Rigor: Getting Students Ready for the Next Level
One of my goals this year was to make my CS course more fun for my students. I felt as if (and received feedback from students that) some of my programming assignments...
From Wild WebMink
People
My postings from here and ComputerWorldUK are often reposted at opensource.com by the folk at Red Hat who run the site. They are once again running a “People’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Loyalty Data as Asset
I was recently introduced to Aimia: " ... a global leader in loyalty management offering a full suite of services including coalition loyalty proprietary loyalty...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
USAID Posts Draft RFA with Emphasis Spanning Analytics
USAID is launching what it calls “an exciting and ambitious” program to engage universities and research institutes in novel ways to improve the agency’s (and larger...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mainstream Gamification
Computerworld piece on gamification. Some useful statistics and definition of terms. We used many of these game dynamics ideas. These are pretty simple user...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MapQuest Vibe
MapQuest Vibe shows you where the hot neighborhoods are. I like the idea of clicking directly to local information via a map.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vint Cerf on Innovation
We had him speak to us several times and it was always useful. In Innovation Excellence. An early innovator that brought the Internet to the table. As the...
From Schneier on Security
Using Plant DNA for Authentication
Turns out you can create unique signatures from plant DNA. The idea is to spray this stuff on military components in order to verify authentic items and detect...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One Option for How to Teach Kodu
I recently ran some workshops to prepare students to be peer mentors and to mentor younger students with Kodu. The method I suggest is to have mentors show students...
From Michael Nielsen
If correlation doesn
That’s the question I address (very partially) in a new post on my data-driven intelligence blog. The post reviews some of the recent work on causal inference done...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Atlantic on Big Data
A good, general article on the increasing use of big data in science. In The Atlantic. We can apply some of those same methods of transformation in science...
From Wild WebMink
Blast from the past
I found I still had a blog on java.net, so I’ve posted a quick note about FOSDEM there!
From Apophenia
How Parents Normalized Teen Password Sharing
In 2005, I started asking teenagers about their password habits. My original set of questions focused on teens’ attitudes about giving their password to their parents...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Should you boycott academic publishers?
There is a growing list of famous scientists who have pledged to boycott Elsevier as a publisher. If I were in charge of Elsevier, I would be very nervous: academic...
From Schneier on Security
Authentication by "Cognitive Footprint"
DARPA is funding research into new forms of biometrics that authenticate people as they use their computer: things like keystroke patterns, eye movements, mouse...
From The Eponymous Pickle