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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 Putting People First
Using sensors in design research
Elliott Hedman is the founder of the design consultancy mPath, where he’s pioneering a new approach to design research. It combines stress-testing sensors with...
From Putting People First
How US state governments can improve customer service
A McKinsey Center for Government survey finds that Americans are often dissatisfied with state services—and identifies significant opportunities for improvement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Reality of Retail Beacons
A useful look at the practical reality of retail beacons. In RetailWire. George Anderson writes:" ... It's time for a reality check when it comes to beacons.Beacons...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analytics Ready to Test
Sign up here. Saw early demonstrations of and have used it for a while now. See my posts on this. Impressed by how they have implemented interactive and wellIn...
From Schneier on Security
Olfactory Surveillance
The Denver police are using olfactometers to measure the concentration of cannabis in the air. I haven't found any technical information about these devices, their...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
BRAIN Workshop, an exciting first day
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and National Science Foundation (NSF) are sponsoring a workshop on the Research Interfaces between Brain Science and Computer...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Department of Transportation Request for Information on Vehicle to Vehicle Communications
Recently, some Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Members visited the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to talk about possible synergies between...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocery and Mobile Innovation
Mobile evolves in grocery:Grocery is poised for mobile innovation, expert says The grocery category is well-positioned for mobile innovation, as most existing grocery...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer History–The Importance of Stories
I ran across quiz today (Do you recognize these Obsolete Technologies?) If you know me you are probably not surprised that I recognized all 15 of them. I’ve been...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearing Our Intelligence
In Wired: Not exactly a 'how to' as the article title suggested, but a good view of why intelligence can also exist in our bodies and what we choose to wear and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pre Disaster Planning for Transportation Networks
Good presentation today via the Cognitive Science Institute. About the integration of cognitive methods with mathematical optimization and database integration...
From Schneier on Security
Quantum Attack on Public-Key Algorithm
This talk (and paper) describe a lattice-based public-key algorithm called Soliloquy developed by GCHQ, and a quantum-computer attack on it. News article....
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems Recap
We've now completed five decades of favorite theorems. 1965-1974 1975-1984 1985-1994 (PDF) 1995-2004 And to recap the ten we chose this year from 2005-2014 ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Data Science Secrets
In Fastcolabs: Linkedin has a huge amount of data, 97% of the Fortune 500 has a presence there. That data can be refashioned into a number of useful models and...
From Putting People First
There is no such thing as UX Design
Peter Merholz argues that the entire “field” of user experience emerged for one reason — to accommodate, and overcome, poor (or non-existent) product management...
From Geeking with Greg
More quick links
More of what caught my attention lately: "Make infinite computing resources available internally ... Give teams the resources they need to experiment ... All...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Rethinks the Captcha
From CWorld: In attempt to get away from the often annoying Captcha interaction to prove you are not a robot. With a far simpler subtle approach. Will this be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hawking Fears AI
In an interview with the BBC. It is right to be concerned, given the malleability of humans. Look how dumb things like smartphones can control us. But we still...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Jefferson Science Fellowship Experience
The following blog post was written by Dr. Stephanie Forrest, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Forrest recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle