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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Our CS Teachers: A CS Ed Week Poem
As we embark on the week to celebrate CS Education Let us pause for a moment in order to make mention Of computer science teachers, our educational heroes Who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney Method
In Innovation Excellence: Using the Disney Method. By Paul Sloane. A group parallel thinking method that we were introduced to now years ago that is based on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Fast and Slow
Freeman Dyson, physicist and favorite thinker and writer, insightfully reviews : Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. Excellent thoughts regarding HowThe...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Dealing with harsh criticism
Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, once told how Dilbert fared poorly initially. His critics objected that Dilbert was hardly ever funny, except when he appeared at...
From Schneier on Security
GCHQ Hacking Contest
GCHQ is holding a hacking contest to drum up new recruits.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of December 5
December 6 Hearing: The Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best of KYield
Interested in how the entrepreneur operates? The ups and downs of selling the semantic enterprise? Mark Montgomery, a long time correspondent, has posteda index...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changes in Consumer Loyalty
In Walter Riker's excellent Curious Voyager: Loyalty Now Includes Interest in What Companies Stand For. Some good points and links. I think part of the reason...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Enterprise Apps
I recently attended an enterprise business analytics meeting where a number of management people were openly seeking enterprise apps to power their newly delivered...
From Computational Complexity
Probability
On Saturday, Terrence Fine gave a talk on probability at a workshop at Northwestern. Before the talk he asked who thought probability was subjective (an individual's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twilight of Email
GigaOm has a good piece on the end of email, now about 40 years old. Yes, it has become increasingly annoying. But its annoyance is created in large part by its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Don't Limit What You Know
A friend sends along a link out of of the HBR Blog network. Don't let What You Know Limit What you Can Imagine. You have to have effective ways to look outside...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 December 2011
Happy Computer Science Education Week! Hope you are doing something fun and interesting to encourage students to study computer science this week. And maybe encouraging...
From Schneier on Security
Carrier IQ Spyware
Spyware on many smart phones monitors your every action, including collecting individual keystrokes. The company that makes and runs this software on behalf of...
From The Noisy Channel
Jim Adler: The Accidental Chief Privacy Officer
Privacy is the third rail of the cloud. On one hand, the ease of sharing information and the power of analytics have produced extraordinary value for consumers,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Billion Prices
Once more I had cause to look at the Billion Prices project at MIT. A way to calibrate prices generally and in real time by region? Clever idea to syndicate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain as Computer Model
In the New Mexican: Chris Wood at the Santa Fe Institute suggests that in an application of bio-mimicry we could use the brain as a model for new kinds of computation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innov8 for Health Competition
I see that the results of the Innov8 for health competition, held yesterday at the GE Aviation Learning Center, has posted the results in their blog. I got to...
From The Eponymous Pickle