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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 Schneier on Security
Lessons from the Sony Hack
Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Peace hacked into Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer systems and began revealing many...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Look at Computer Science Education Week
Computer Science Week has been around for about seven years now. In the early years I think most of us didn’t really know how to deal with it. There was talk about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Visualization Projects of 2014
Flowingdata picks a number of examples. Not the most simple, but some of the most pleasing and artistic examples that are worth a look. As he notes, his examples...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Rival Sentient
An AI rival to understand: Sentient: With some emphasis on big data and genetic methods. And the direct use of biomimicry through the use of genetic algorithms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Futures
Newly discovered, note mention of organizational futuresThinking in new ways about the futureUnderstanding change implications, exploring possible organisational...
From Schneier on Security
SS7 Vulnerabilities
There are security vulnerability in the phone-call routing protocol called SS7. The flaws discovered by the German researchers are actually functions built into...
From Putting People First
Beautiful users: book and exhibition
BOOK Beautiful Users: Designing for People Edited and designed by Ellen Lupton Princeton Architectural Press, 2014, 144 pages In the mid-twentieth century, Henry...
From Putting People First
Putting People First blog redesigned
Experientia’s Putting People First blog has been redesigned. It is now entirely responsive, allows for easier browsing, searching, and filtering, and features larger...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printed Chocolate
Printing chocolate. " ... Out of all the companies out there, one instantly pops into most individual’s heads when they think of creamy, rich chocolate, and that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Delivers in one Hour in NYC
In the WSJ: Amazon Unveils One-Hour Delivery Service. Program Is for Prime Customers in New York, Includes Over 25,000 Products. ... " . Additional charge. Expanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Almost Lost
In today's Cognitive Systems Institute talk, Jim Hendler of RPI mentions how close Ken Jennings came to winning the fabled Jeopardy competition ... check out his...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reproducing Scent
In Fastcoexist: A kind of biomimicry. We worked on related ideas when in the food business. " ... Scent Of A Rose, With Designer Microbes .... Stop and smell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson and Academia
In today's Cognitive Systems Institute presentation, Jim Hendler from RPI presented "An Academic Perspective on Watson.". Nicely done, in particular a comparison...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
35 Innovators Under the Age of 35
Each year MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 35 innovators under the age of 35. Recently, they published the list for 2014. All 35 of these people are doing...
From Schneier on Security
ISIS Cyberattacks
Citizen Lab has a new report on a probable ISIS-launched cyberattack: This report describes a malware attack with circumstantial links to the Islamic State in Iraq...
From The Eponymous Pickle
University Mobile App Strategy
Not sure if this is rare. Have been part of related work for enterprises. In particular this could be best seen as a broader strategy about getting focused data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Competes with Google Glass
In CWorld: Early this year was involved with a proposed project with Google Glass that regrettably did not happen, read more about that here. Now Sony is competing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Energy Saving Game
In Fastcodesign: A way to turn household energy saving into what they call an addictive game. Called Power House, on Facebook. Mentioned by collaborator Byron...
From Schneier on Security