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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 Eponymous Pickle
Mathematics of Discovery for Creativity?
In the WaPo: Having examined how expertise can be augmented by creativity, not sure how this is directly useful. The graphical representation shown is thought...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The 3SUM Assumption Is Wrong?
A new result on our three body problem Allan Grønlund and Seth Pettie are leaders in algorithm design and related problems. Today I want to give a quick follow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting and Scaling Expertise
Thoughts I just put in a private Linkedin Group that deals with how cognitive expertise is effectively delivered. It is all about how we can now augment and scale...
From Putting People First
How to conduct design research for home healthcare devices
As healthcare shifts from the hospital to the home, design research must also morph to keep up, writes Shana Leonard. Who is the typical user of your medical product...
From Putting People First
How Wells Fargo learned to innovate around the customer
Wells Fargo, the world’s most valuable bank, learned to innovate around the customer. In 1999, Steve Ellis, who runs the bank’s wholesale services group, went to...
From Putting People First
Leveraging ethnography to improve food safety
Carolyn Rose explains how ethnography can be used to improve food safety: If done correctly, ethnography leads to a holistic and unbiased understanding of current...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reasons for Being Cheerful
Matt Ridley, the rational optimist, provides a number of reasons to be cheerful. Mark J Perry summarizes. Not what I have been seeing in the news.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consider Being Obsolete
AdAge Video: I still believe this will take longer than we think. There will be transferal and re-apportionment of many jobs. " ... Are You Obsolete? Yeah...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Te Papa Museum Gets a Second Colossal Squid
That's two more than I have. They're hoping it's a male. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House Launches U.S. Digital Service and Digital Resources
On Monday the White House announced the launch of the U.S. Digital Service. According to the Administration, the Digital Service is a team of digital experts that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurogaming Asks a Question
Ron Wright, correspondent, sends along an article: " .... Brain science and video gaming converge in neurogaming ... " . We have still been unable to capture...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Should we train more people as programmers?
Lately, the top salaries for computer science graduates have been increasing. Companies like Google are willing to pay what it takes to get their hands on the best...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Need to Reinforce IT
In the Future of CIO: I have often had thoughts of how we have come to rely on Information Technology. " .... Organizations rely more and more on technology;...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Payment System
In Adage: An intriguing approach. And of course since you are on the Amazon system, the system already 'knows' much about you. " ... Amazon's Square-Like Payment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dimensions of Portfolio Analysis
Had not seen this particular way of looking at this. Worth a further look. " ... the various reasons why Portfolio Management is tough to implement with two different...
From Schneier on Security
Reverse-Engineering NSA Malware
Interesting articles reverse-engineering DEITYBOUNCE and BULLDOZER....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning By Doing Works for Adults Too
Over the last year or so I have had a number of meetings and conversations with school leaders about using social media. One of my first questions is always “who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID and Beacons
A recent query reminded me that the RFID journal now covers Beacon type systems. This is an interesting kind of application than might be expected for in-store...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Limited Independence
When can limited randomness act as well as true random bits? Polylogarithmic independence fools AC0 circuits by Mark Braverman (JACM 2010) To explain this result...
From Computer Science Teachers Association