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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
Jawbone releases UP, a wristband for tracking your wellness
Priced at $100, the device is a leap for Jawbone. And its aimed at nothing less than making its wearers happier and healthier. Fastco Design reports. “The UP wristband...
From Schneier on Security
Underage Children on Facebook
Interesting research on how parents help their children lie about their age to get onto Facebook. One reaction to our data might be that companies should not be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twenty Five Dollar Computer
A very minimalist, business card sized, computer. Aimed at technical education. The way I understand it monitor and keyboard are extra. I have been intrigued...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jim Goodnight of SAS on Business Analytcs
Always interesting Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, spoke at the Kelly School of Business. Some of my past colleagues were on the included panel." ... Mark Zozulla said...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Museum Street Views
Streetview lets you look into some museums and look at the art. An interesting move forward in virtualizing real spaces.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Course Blogs vs Wikis
If you're a professor or TA for a course and want to use online technology for the betterment of your students, which is superior: a course wiki or a course blog...
From My Biased Coin
This Week, We Were Doing Security
If you look on Yelp's engineering blog (http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2011/10/output-filtering-failure.html), you'll see Yelp's VP of Engineering, Michael Stoppelman...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customized Subscriptions to Staples
In Mashable: Something we looked at in the early years of cell phone based shopping lists. Subscriptions to staples can be a powerful concept.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better to Call than E-Mail
In the HBR Blog, email may be easier, but it is less impactful:" ... But the bigger need is just for more live conversations to occur, period. This is especially...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Can You Reconstruct Shredded Documents?
That’s the question being posed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which recently announced
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Sorting Algorithms Do Beginners Need To Learn
Do beginners even need to learn sorting algorithms? Let
From The Noisy Channel
Interview in Forbes: What is a Data Scientist?
Dan Woods has been interviewing a variety of folks to answer the question: “What is a data scientist?“, and I had the honor to participate in his series. Here is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
KYield Executive Summary
Mark Montgomery gives a new executive summary of his work on the KYield blog. And announces seeking candidates for a CTO role. Check it out and pass it on.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Writing My ISTE Keynote
I had mail today saying that ISTE was looking for nominations to present a keynote in San Diego this summer. They asked “could it be you?” Well unlikely it would...
From Schneier on Security
DARPA Cyber Colloquium
I note that the three "industry leaders" speaking at the DARPA Cyber Colloquium next week have about 75 years of government experience between them.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boot Camp Digital
Boot Camp Digital, by former colleague Krista Neher, Social Media tips and tricks and useful connections.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deal Making at A&P
An example of how companies like The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company are using Deal Management software from Demandtec to improve the end to end promotion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Design Changing the Way we Think
Good piece in the Atlantic. It also points to the organization called The Institute of Play. Which looks at the relationship of games and learning.The PowerGame...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My favorite LaTeX editor for MacOS: Texpad
I always found word processors distracting. I hate to copy and paste text only to find that the text formatting was copied as well. When I write, I do not want...
From Apophenia