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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Research Highlight: ExCAPE
Periodically, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will highlight research projects that are nominated by the public. Research highlights are meant to inform...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TouchDevelop on Student Devices
I have this sort of love/hate relationship with web based applications. I had reason for a bit of both today. I like to introduce students to programming using ...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Perfectionism is not the same as having high standards
A lot of what I do is… quite frankly… not very good. To put it differently, almost everything I do fails to meet my quality standards. So I am constantly fighting...
From Putting People First
Fundamental principles of great UX design
In this edition of Ask UXmatters (a series curated by Janet M. Six), an eight-person expert panel looks at the importance of considering the fundamental principles...
From Putting People First
A profile of Elizabeth F. Churchill, Director of User Experience at Google
As part of an on-going series profiling people, institutions and programs in the EPIC People community, Katharina Rochjadi of Swinburne University of Technology...
From Putting People First
Why wearables should be free
Companies shouldn’t just give out wearables for free; they should pay users for data, argues Hans Neubert, frog’s chief creative officer. “Owners of wearable technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Performance Computing in CPG
Video by a former colleague, Tom Lange, about how High Performance Computing (HPC) is used in consumer packaged goods at Procter & Gamble. " ... From toothpaste...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing the Social Landscape in 2014
A one page landscape infographic view of the eight most common types of social media in 2014. Nicely done, but specifics in this space do change quickly. Includes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mail Re-Imagined in Verse
Today from IBM. Mail that understands you ... Imagine email that works for you instead of email that makes you work. .... Guided by analytics, IBM Verse learns...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Making is Unconscious
Len Stein writes:" ... Marketers are realizing that decision making is largely an unconscious process. While neuro-scientists continue to expand our knowledge of...
From Schneier on Security
A New Free CA
Announcing Let's Encrypt, a new free certificate authority. This is a joint project of EFF, Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, and the University of Michigan. This is an absolutely...
From Schneier on Security
Whatsapp Is Now End-to-End Encrypted
Whatapp is now offering end-to-end message encryption: Whatsapp will integrate the open-source software Textsecure, created by privacy-focused non-profit Open Whisper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MICA Intel Wearable is Fashionable
Fashion changes. Pricey at $495. Will all jewelry soon have an option for computer augmentation? Intel is an unexpected participant. I do like the fact that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding the Face of Emotion
Determining emotion from facial images. A long term research and innovation interest. Here news of a September talk in Edge HeadCon. The introductory piece also...
From Schneier on Security
Snarky 1992 NSA Report on Academic Cryptography
The NSA recently declassified a report on the Eurocrypt '92 conference. Honestly, I share some of the writer's opinions on the more theoretical stuff. I know it's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Top Secret Rosies
This week I have been showing the movie "Top Secret Rosies" to my freshmen students. It’s a wonderful story about some long unsung heroes of both World War II and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass not Taking Off
It was only early this year I was looking at a way to use Glass to aid in some compliance applications. We approached Google, but got no interest. Now Glass appears...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Next 50 Years of Management
McKinsey's always interesting contributions, a look forward at the next 50 years:McKinsey Quarterly’s 50th anniversary editionIn this unique anniversary edition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Cisco App for Collaboration
In CWorld: The Cisco App is being positioned as Freemium. Will also be interesting to see how this is connected to some of its hardware solutions. See also its...
From Schneier on Security