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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
Touch Interfaces in Communications
This is not new, but continues to advance. " .... The Communication Of The Future Is So Real You Can Touch It. Companies are starting to integrate Haptic Feedback...
From Schneier on Security
Viking Runes as Encryption in the 1500s
This is an interesting historical use of viking runes as a secret code. Yes, the page is all in Finnish. But scroll to the middle. There's a picture of the Stockholm...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
WATCH Talk-Differential Privacy: Theoretical and Practical Challenges
The next WATCH Talk is this Thursday, January 15, 12:00-1:00pm EDT. Salil Vadhan will discuss Differential Privacy: Theoretical and Practical Challenges. Dr. Salil...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DataFloq: Connecting Data and People
Had heard of Datafloq before, now taking a closer look. " ... Datafloq is the One-Stop Shop around Big Data. We are the number one Big Data platform connecting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Debunking Data Myths
In ClickZ: A set of useful cautions about what are really mostly very human assumptions. Which summarize well in the statement that 'More is not always better'...
From Putting People First
First edition of UX STRAT Europe to take place in Amsterdam this June
And all keynote speakers are American… UX STRAT Europe will take place in Amsterdam on June 4 – 5, 2015 at the Tobacco Theater in the heart of Amsterdam. The conference...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NIH Data Science Blog!
Ever wondered what was going on in the data science community with relation to biomedical research? Ever wish to share your own knowledge about the field? No need...
From Schneier on Security
How Surveillance Causes Writers to Self-Censor
A worldwide survey of writers affiliated with PEN shows a significant level of self-censoring. From the press release: The report's revelations, based on a survey...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 January 2015
It’s the end of the semester and I’ve been crazy busy. Outside projects, grading, exam writing, and more. Time for blogging seems to be in short supply these days...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Visualization in Mining Industry
Mining Global (@MiningGlobal) Jason Nitz of @Newmont Mining discusses the potential Big Data presents to the mining industry. Good piece on an industry you usually...
From Putting People First
How Lego used ethnographic studies to become the Apple of toys
Or said differently: “If you want to understand how animals live, you don’t go to the zoo, you go to the jungle.” Jørgen Vig Knudstorp began turning the company...
From Wild WebMink
Any Revolution Can Be Repurposed
In fact this memorial to one — three days of killing in Paris over free speech and blasphemy — has been: The July Column in the Place de la Bastille in Paris –...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Home of the Future at CES
In Engadget: A connected home wrap up from last weeks CES. Not very impressive. Lots of pieces there, as we have seen over a number years, since we built our...
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My Week at Hacker School
I first heard about Hacker School last summer. I had run into my friend Lindsey Kuper at a conference in Edinburgh. She told me that she had been a resident and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Concept Maps Delivering Cognitive Systems
I just posted a note in the Linkedin Group Cognitive Systems Institute: Using Concept Maps to Deliver Cognitive System Design: One of the methods we used to develop...
From Wild WebMink
Careless Stereotyping
I’ve been privileged to travel widely, and have had conversations with educated people in several countries where Islam is the norm. On one visit to the Levant,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disruption of Industry Forces
In GigaOM: Well put overview of a survey. Some expected things, others now. I mostly agree with their statement that: " ... It’s hard to disagree that new...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How can CPG Adapt
In CPG Matters, new and interesting updates on the onrush of digital enterprise and implications for CPG:6 ways CPG companies can adaptThe consumer packaged goods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Groups Promoting the Internet of Things
In the CACM: In particular the issue of evolving standards and protocols is becoming important. A good overview of the groups and participants forming.
From The Eponymous Pickle