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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
Qreo Scanning the Cookie
Can you scan an array of cookies laid out in the form of a QR Code? Yes, here is proof of it. Shows the robustness of the code form. I tried it with my phone...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Solar Decathlon Winner Relies Upon Computing Advances
For the past two weeks, the National Mall in Washington, DC, has been transformed into a neighborhood of futuristic homes, with 20 teams from five countries spanning...
From My Biased Coin
New York Times
Our work on daily deals is mentioned and linked to in Sunday's New York Times business section. (John Byers even got a quote in!) It was also mentioned in this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ad Technology Rivals Plan to Merge
I recently took a look at how companies were using technology to manage portfolios of advertisements and discovered the pending merger of two of the biggest players...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Securing Executive Support for Analytics
On the face of it this question seemed inconceivable. I worked for an organization that supported analytics fundamentally. They even made the topic one of their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will Amazon Eat the World?
Just read The Omnivore in the latest Bloomberg BusinessWeek. About Jeff Bezos of Amazon and his new tablet device. They position it: " ... Jeff Bezos' new tablet...
From The Noisy Channel
Keeping It Professional: Relevance, Recommendations, and Reputation at LinkedIn
Last week, I delivered the following presentation at the CMU Intelligence Seminar: I had a great audience, including the department head! Of course that meant...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Interesting Squid Recipes
Plus a slide show of pretty dishes.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Rules Engines
I have been asked about the use ot business rules to drive specifics of process. This came up:Welcome to Business Rule Engine. This site is a companion to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Need a Data Scientist
Good piece on the reasons why you need a data scientist to address how to use analytics for your business. In my own consulting business I get similar questions...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Vulnerability in Teaching
The status quo in university lecturing is comfortable. You capture what you know on a set of slides (often using many words - kind of a brain dump, really), and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson and Wellpoint
Another good article, this in Analytics Magazine on the application of the IBM Watson AI technology and Wellpoint Inc. " ... WellPoint, Inc. and IBM announcedQuite...
From Putting People First
PressPausePlay, a film about hope, fear and digital culture
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But...
From Computational Complexity
Bibliographies
Lots of buzz about Princeton's new policy that prevents faculty from giving away the right to publish papers on their own web pages. Never seen faculty so happy...
From Putting People First
Truth, lies and the internet
The internet is the greatest source of information for people living in the UK today. But the amount of material available at the click of a mouse can be both liberating...
From Putting People First
UX: old wine in new bottles?
Finnish researchers Antti Oulasvirta, Pertti Saariluoma, Rebekah Rousi and Jaana Leikas discuss replacing using intuitive notions of emotions with systematic psychological...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teasers from Brandwashed
Martin Lindstrom's latest book: Brandwashed has made number 8 on USA Today's bestsellers list. He sends along a flier that outlines a number of interesting topics...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Advocating on the Advocate Blog
Recently I started a 10-week contract, filling in as a Math teacher at a local high school. Naturally one of my early questions was "So what senior computing classes...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog