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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
Google to Shutter Buzz, Shift Emphasis to Google+
I had started to back off from Google Buzz and saw others doing that as well. It stayed alive only because of its tie-in to GMail. You could see all the messages...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Announcing the 2011 Computing Innovation Fellows
With support from the National Science Foundation, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) today named 20 talented recent Ph.D.s in computer science and allied...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaio Augmented Reality Thing
From Metaio, which I have been following with regard to augmented reality solutions. Here again in the entertainment business. A similar thing we see in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Salespeople are not Pushy Enough
In the HBR blog, some interesting techniques and thoughts on this. I have dealt with many salespeople and this makes sense. Not that I would like it from the...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
'Publish or Perish' Should Perish
I hate the 'publish or perish' mantra of academia. I really do. To me, it takes the focus away from doing great work and waiting until it's truly ready for public...
From Schneier on Security
Burglars Tip Off Police About Bigger Crime
I find this fascinating: A central California man has been arrested for possession of child pornography, thanks to a tip from burglars who robbed the man's property...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocer Integrated Digital Platform
A useful example of a platform that provides a hybrid solution to grocery:"... MyWebGrocer, leading provider of digital solutions to the grocery and consumer packaged...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
My Goal: Inspiring Students
Unlike the solar calendar which marks January as the beginning of the new year, my new year, like that of all teachers, begins in September. A new school year...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mindjet for IPhone and IPad are now Free
I used Mindjet extensively in the enterprise. Promoted it and taught it. It inspired us to think about the process of 'knowledge mapping' more generally. Admittedly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More About the Second Screen
More in Mashable about a Nielsen study about how people use smartphones and tablets when watching TV. The phenomenon of the second screen. You wonder what it does...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Mathematica Conference Available Free
I see that all the presentations and keynotes from the recent Wolfram Mathemetica virtual conference are available online. I have just started to examine some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Preparation to Teach High School Computer Science
“What qualifies you to teach computer science?” The question took me off guard. The tone as much as the words seem to be more of a challenge than anything else....
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Shoppers Want in an App
From the FMI Daily Lead, makes sense.What consumers want from their supermarket's app : Consumers' top three interests for grocery mobile applications are receiving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ParAccel and MicroStrategy
We had some conversations with ParAccel a while back. I note that they have announced an effort with Microstrategy on social media analytics. Worth examiningParaAccel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT/Stanford Venture Lab on Augmented Reality
An upcoming meeting on the venture future of augmented reality. AR has a good future in retail as a means to effectively combine online and physical spaces. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Learning with Smartphones
A case study of using Smartphones to engage with the learning process. " ... The users are given a smartphone that has access to more than 15 virtual course modules...
From Computational Complexity
Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)
We lost another computing pioneer of a very different kind. Dennis Ritchie, who developed C and co-developed Unix, passed away last weekend. Ritchie and Ken Thompson...
From Schneier on Security