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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
Neuromarketing Papers from 2015
From Warc, survey of 'best papers' from 2015 on neuromarketing. With claims taking neuromarketing mainstream. I disagree, it is still experimental, worth testing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
International Blog Delurking Week 2016
OK this is the first I have heard of this but it is a great idea. Comments are a huge thing for bloggers. I get a few comments now and again and they add great...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Spies on Israeli Prime Minister
The Wall Street Journal has a story that the NSA spied on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli government officials, and incidentally collected...
From Putting People First
Consumers are bored with today’s tech and nervous about tomorrow’s
Accenture just launched (press release) the results of its Igniting Growth in Consumer Technology survey where it polled 28,000 consumers in 28 countries on their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Realty as Next Frontier of Retail
Is Virtual Reality really practical in retail? A next frontier. For engagement, or for exploring complicated product use in context?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gathering in Random Forests
Random Forests. A notable ensemble-style method for analytic classification. Particularly interesting to me because it uses more easily understood decision trees...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter vs Facebook
In Knowledge@Wharton:" ... Twitter’s effort to find a new CEO is the latest struggle in a long list of challenges that the micro-blogging site has faced over the...
From Schneier on Security
Windows 10 Whole-Disk Encryption without Key Escrow
On the Intercept, Micah Lee has a good article that talks about how Microsoft is collecting the hard-drive encryption keys of Windows 10 users, and how to disable...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Privacy-Preserving Inference of Social Relationships from Location Data
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Cyrus Shahabi, Liyue Fan, and Luciano Nocera from theUniversity of Southern California, Li Xiong from Emory University...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
How I use CSTA
It is a wonderful time to teach computer science. Almost every day, there is a new tool or website or resource available to teachers for use in the computer science...
From insideHPC
Video: How Argonne Simulated the Evolution of the Universe
"What we want to do now with these simulations is exactly create this universe in our lab. So we build this model and we put it on a computer and evolve it forward...
From Schneier on Security
De-Anonymizing Users from their Coding Styles
Interesting blog post: We are able to de-anonymize executable binaries of 20 programmers with 96% correct classification accuracy. In the de-anonymization process...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 January 2016
Happy New Year! Happy 11111100000! Today is forst day back at school. I didn’t get to everything I wanted to do over the break but I did start playing with some...
From insideHPC
NCSA Private Sector Program
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has a private sector program (PSP) which works with the smaller companies to help them adopt HPC technologies...
From Putting People First
[Reports] Shaping the Library to the Life of the User
Shaping the Library to the Life of the User: Adapting, Empowering, Partnering, Engaging by Merrilee Proffitt, James Michalko and Melissa Renspie OCLC Online Computer...
From Putting People First
How focus on UX helped gov.uk win design of the year
The goal of self-service sites is to help users find answers themselves, forestalling the need to contact a real person. When such a site is done right, it leads...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whirlpool Builds in the Dash Buy Button
The general idea has been around for more than a decade . I have been testing the Amazon Dash button since last year. Finally it is being integrated for replenishment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics at Adidas
Addidas. An example of a company in transition to the use of robots to do manufacturing. In Reuters: Adidas Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Value of Getting it Wrong
Being willing to get it wrong, and doing that a number of times to calibrate the inexactness of our methods and models, can be a useful means of both understanding...
From Writing