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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
iOS 8 Security
Apple claims that they can no longer unlock iPhones, even if the police show up with a warrant. Of course they still have access to everything in iCloud, but it's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2015 Code Hunt Challenge
Microsoft is running their big Imagine Cup international student competition again this year. While some of the events take a lot of work and teams of studentsCode...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multi Sensory Packaging
In Packaging Digest: A long time area of innovation research. The use of touch sensory design in packaging and display. Tactility they are calling it. Here there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Proximity Marketing
Short article in ClickZ on proximity marketing with beacons. " .... Beacons have the ability to accelerate the mobile shopping experience and create increased...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Challenge to Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: The No. 1 Challenge. To me it is culture and context. Over a long career have seen many examples. Here they suggest: " ... The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Countering Fraud With Big Data
Obvious application. Having more data lets you more easily extract outliers and patterns of interest. Find correlations that don't need to be causation. This...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellowship Program seeking graduate students
The National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship Program provides U.S. graduate students in science and engineering...
From Schneier on Security
Fake Cell Phone Towers Across the US
Earlier this month, there were a bunch of stories about fake cell phone towers discovered around the US These seems to be ISMI catchers, like Harris Corporation's...
From Putting People First
Digital tools for design research
Dan Perkel of IDEO Labs shares how he and his colleagues use digital methods and tools to enhance the research process in five distinct activities: – Exploring...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
So Many Ways To Do The Same Thing
I updated my list of block programming languages and tools yesterday. Two more bringing the total list to 17. Seventeen? Yep. Also this week I learned about Gidget...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simpler 3D Printing
3d printing for everyone. Dremel's device is relatively simple to use. Will these be as common as computers in the home? " ... Dremel has announced the first...
From Computational Complexity
Gentry and Lurie and Zhang can say they are genius's without bragin'- MacArthur Genius's
(If I mispell anything in this post, well, that"s why I'm not a MacArthur Genius, or any other kind of Genius.) Craig Gentry, of homomorphic encryption fame, won...
From My Biased Coin
On Academia vs. Industry.... MSR SVC Closing
I'm one of those professor types that ends up defending the joys of life as an academic versus a career in industry -- some of you who read this blog have probably...
From Schneier on Security
Terrible Article on Vernam Ciphers
If there's anything that confuses wannabe cryptographers, it's one-time pads....
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Looks for Video Innovation
In Adage: " ... P&G Reaches Far and Wide, Including to NASA, to Cut Video Costs ... Space: The Final Frontier for Marketing Procurement? ... P&G casts wide net...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Aging in Place Workshop: Articulating a research vision for technologies that enhance the lives and independence of aging adults
On September 10-11, the CCC co-hosted a visioning workshop focused on technologies that will allow older adults and people with disabilities to “age in place,”...
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Experiment: Daily GitHub Checkins
I've been doing a lot of relatively mindless but decently labor-intensive code-related work (colloquially known, especially in the brogrammer community, as "coding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More About Watson Analytics
More about Watson Analytics, from the recent announcements and presentations. Nicely done by connection Lillian Pierson in Data-Mania.com. Would still like to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
D2Cincinnati Speaks Digital Marketing
On September 22-23 a number of my former colleagues will be speaking at the D2Cincinnati conference at the Cincinnati HorseShoe Casino. " ... Bringing together...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP