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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
Amazon Sells more Kindle Books than Print Books
Time marches on ... Print books are sagging, I never expected this quite so soon. and I did not expect that there would be enough penetration of reading devices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evernote
At Walter Riker's recommendation I have just started to use Evernote to manage notetaking for multiple clients. Overall this is very nicely done and allows you...
From Apophenia
Publicity and the Culture of Celebritization
In this month’s “Rolling Stone,” the magazine published an article called “Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played With Fire”. The article tells the story of a 14-year...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Causes Spiritual Reaction In Brains
Another post on spiritual/religious reactions seen in brain scans. The subject of a recent BBC documentary. This reminds me of work mentioned in Martin Lindstrom's...
From Computational Complexity
Is Computer Science Cool Again?
Back in 2005 I worried about loss of excitement about computer science among America's youth. Today computers have become almost as commonplace as televisionsFCRC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empathy as Brand Equity in Retail
In my own experience in the retail world I saw several examples of this. Empathy, un linked to a profit motive has a very powerful effect. HBS article.
From Putting People First
Mike Kuniavsky on somatic data perception
Mike Kuniavsky was one of the speakers at this week’s Augmented Reality Event and his presentation Somatic Data Perception – Sensing Information Shadows (pdf) is...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers
Paul Vick posted these Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers earlier this week and I have been thinking about them a lot. They make sense to me. As a professional...
From Putting People First
Africa is becoming a test lab for mobile phone development
Lessons in innovation that Vodafone learns from its work in sub-Saharan Africa will be applied to its projects around the world. For Vodafone, sub-Saharan Africa...
From Putting People First
Power Lines
Power Lines, the latest paper by the UK’s Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), follows on from the RSA
From Putting People First
Compendium for the Civic Economy
The Compendium for the Civic Economy is the latest publication by NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (an independent body with...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The perils of filter-then-publish
Why do I prefer the publish-then-filter system, which dominates social media such as blogs, to the traditional filter-then-publish system used by scientific journals...
From My Biased Coin
Serving Non-Majors in CS Classes
At the end of the year, I gave a short in-house presentation highlighting some aspects of the state of CS at Harvard. In gathering data, one thing that struckDavid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Shipping
Many more orders online are now including 'free shipping'. Of course this is driven by the magic econometric term 'free', which takes something that used to be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Commercial Quantum Computer
A claim for the first commercial quantum computer. From D-Wave. I spoke to this Canadian company some time ago suggesting applications, such as in supply chain...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Visionary Papers to MIX-HS
The Computing Community Consortium is announcing today a Challenges and Visions Track at the First International Workshop on Managing Interoperability and compleXity...
From Computer Science Teachers Association