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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
An interview with Dirk Knemeyer on UX and reinventing democracy
Dirk Knemeyer is a UX thought leader, an entrepreneur, a game designer, and a former UXmatters columnist. Recently, Pabini Gabriel-Petit had the opportunity to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amelia Thinks like You
Emergence of more companies in the conversational advisory space. IPsoft gets publicity in the WSJ today with their cognitive offering: Amelia, a Machine, Thinks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competing in a Digital Age
How do you compete in a digital age? In McKinsey. " ... Digitization is rewriting the rules of competition, with incumbent companies most at risk of being left...
From Putting People First
The anthropology of self-tracking devices (video)
Cultural anthropologist Natasha Schüll bridged the gap between human interaction and machine workings in her research on gambling. Her current research focuses...
From Putting People First
Focus groups are worthless
If Erika Hall, co-founder of Mule Design, could achieve one thing with her time here on earth, Ishemight be content if that one thing could be burning to the ground...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Will Present Draft Privacy Engineering Objectives
On Thursday, October 2, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a webcast scheduled to present its draft (including a discussion deck) Privacy...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Patents Available for License
There's a new article on NSA's Technology Transfer Program, a 1990s-era program to license NSA patents to private industry. I was pretty dismissive about the offerings...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 September 2013
The big deal for me this past weekend was the birth of my first grandchild – a grandson. People are already asking me about what his first technology will be. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sankey Diagrams in Google Charts
Notes on elements of advanced visualizations. Sankey diagrams including multilevel forms, are available in Google Charts. " ... A sankey diagram is a visualization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Tests Customer Pick-Up
In the Local Paper: Extending their supply chain in a very natural way. Without the expense and complexity of delivery. What will the uptake be? Plan to try this...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
The Food And Drug Administration Seeks Input On Medical Device Security
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a workshop on medical device cybersecurity for October 21 and 22 in Arlington, Virginia. Titled “Collaborative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Common Language for Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: Interesting points about how to outline a common language for innovation. Like the idea, but implementing them in a cultural context...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Linked with Business Process Modeling
Re examining business process modeling (BPM) and in particular how it can connect with new methods of analytics and data sources. We used BPM extensively in the...
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Humans and Automation
Good You Tube video: Humans Need not Apply. On the continued progress of automation, and what it means to jobs. It not only about replacing humans, it is also...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Your Content Compelling?
Could be quite valuable for a number of areas. This is being experimented with every day in advertising and online. The data to confirm or deny it is considerable...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Microsoft Closes SVC
Some additional thoughts Microsoft Research source Omer Reingold is a brilliant researcher, and now all can see that he is also a very classy and thoughtful person...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Feature Engineering as the Basis of Analytics
Very good informal and non technical look at feature engineering. It is part of any analytic process, sometimes obvious, but also sometimes subtle. My definition...
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Tweeting Code
To my still enthusiastic Wolfram network, a clever marketing idea. Not sure how practical. What I see are more clever than practical." ... With Tweet-a-Program...
From Computational Complexity
MikeFest
I rarely highlight individual events on the blog, but one's advisor only turns sixty once. We will honor Michael Sipser at MIT on Sunday, October 26 with a one...
From The Eponymous Pickle