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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
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Nebula
A nebula that looks like a squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Diagonalization Without Sets
Avoiding actual infinities Carl Gauss is of course beyond famous, but he had a view of infinity that was based on old ideas. He once wrote in a letter to Heinrich...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Psychologist Looks at UX Design
I am repeating a link to a post in UX magazine that I did in 2010, A psychologist's look at UX Design. Because I had cause to refer to this guide again. A very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Merging and Divesting Brands
In Adage: P&G Will Merge or Divest More Than Half of Its Brands ... Marketer Will Continue To Cut Ad Spending ... Which leads to the question of how much SKU simplification...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailer Carrefour to Test Beacons
In RFID Journal: Another example of a data gathering activity that can lead to better analytics when combined with loyalty and other data. Good detail in this...
From Putting People First
The psychological and cultural fallout from the end of privacy
Alex Preston explores the personal, psychological and cultural impact of the end of privacy in today’s Observer: Here lies our greatest risk, one insufficiently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson is Changing Computing, Why this Time?
Good Fast Company article which covers what IBM hopes that Watson will do. I do hope so. But I did see many articles like this one during the last AI explosion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winograd Schemas
Determining intelligence: (technical point of interest that relates to how people determine intelligence)" ... A Winograd schema is a pair of sentences that differ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
List of Visualization and Data Mining Resources
Good list of resources regarding big data and analytics. Nicely done. Visualization and data mining topics, a number I had not heard of, worth knowing about.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Lakes Examined
Have heard the term in passing, but never found the need to actually use it. Confusion about the term. " ... storage repositories that hold huge amounts of raw...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Really Big Signs
We did lots of work using signs in the retail aisle. Here in Gizmodo, about really big signs, in Times Square. Along the way you get interesting information about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Removing the Underlines
Google removes underlines. This is late news, but I am reminded of our early work with hypertext, before the browser, before Google. For a knowledge management...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ROI for Social Media
From the earliest days of social media, there was always an argument about their ROI. The answer was often that they were a cost rather than a measurable value...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seriousness in Being a Digital Organization
In a conversation with a large enterprise client had a discussion about how their goal was to become a digital organization, I pushed back about how they planned...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
To Conference or Not to Conference
To Conference or Not To Conference--that's not even a question! Of course you want to conference. I am of course referring to the annual CSTA Conference. This year...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The insanity of research grant proposals
Most people will never have to write a research grant. That is a good thing. How do you write a successful grant application? Your work should follow established...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Science Foundation Appoints New Director for Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
On July 31, 2014, Dr. Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), announced the appointment of Dr. Lynne Parker as the new Division...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA's Patents
Here are all the NSA's patents, in one searchable database. If you find something good, tell us all in the comments....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moodle for Learning
Touched on the concept of a Moodle in Wikipedia: " ... a Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment ... is a free software e-learning platform, also...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP