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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
Analytics and Process
In Sloan Review: Analytics needs process. " .... Researchers suggest a new framework to regulate the “fairness” of analytics processes. What could this mean for...
From Schneier on Security
Web Activity Used in Court to Portray State of Mind
I don't care about the case, but look at this: "Among the details police have released is that Harris and his wife, Leanna, told them they conducted Internet searches...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Languages Can You Find
A little Friday fun from Microsoft. How many programming languages can you find in this puzzle? The first one I found is COBOL FWIW.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Story Telling for Value
Paul Smith, colleague and author of the excellent book: Lead with a Story ... writes: " ... I’ve set up a weekly newsletter list you can sign up for that summarizes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco and the Connected Road
Cisco Gains Traction In The Connected Road Race in Fast Company "... In the latest installment of their ongoing expansion into the Internet of Things, CiscoIn...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Targets Privacy Conscious for Surveillance
Jake Appelbaum et. al, are reporting on XKEYSCORE selection rules that target users -- and people who just visit the websites of -- Tor, Tails, and other sites....
From Schneier on Security
Goldman Sachs Demanding E-Mail be Deleted
Goldman Sachs is going to court to demand that Google retroactively delete an e-mail it accidentally sent. The breach occurred on June 23 and included "highly confidential...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science History
Computer science tends to be a very forward looking field. We are constantly looking at the newest things including the future of computers, of programming languages...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Harmonizing Physical and Virtual Stores
A PDF by SAP and Wharton: " .... Retailers are tapping an array of digital analytical tools to understand shoppers the way merchants, a couple of generations ago...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Myths About Data Science
Excellent piece by Vincent Granville ... " .... Here are my reactions to the LinkedIn conversation about the "Statistical data scientists". In short, I believe...
From Geeking with Greg
More quick links
More of what caught my attention lately: Crazy cool and the first time I've seen ultrasound used for device-to-device communication outside of research: "Chromecast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Removes Boring Parts
We also mused about how to do this with long retail behavioral videos. CMU reports on an interesting method. It is dangerous though to just disregard 'uninteresting'...
From Writing
Don't Just Learn to Code, Learn How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
One of my blog posts got picked up by Lifehacker! Check out Don’t Just Learn to Code, Learn How to Think Like a Computer Scientist on lifehacker.com:
From Computational Complexity
Four Centuries of Logarithms
I just returned from visiting my former student Rahul Santhanam in Edinburgh. The National Museum of Scotland has an exhibit on logarithms, first published in...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
GLS10 / Let’s Prototype: Women at the Intersection of Learning, Games, & Design
The tenth annual Games, Learning and Society Conference, held this past June in Madison, WI, featured a panel on women in gaming. Moderated by games-journalist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking in UX Design
Brought to my attention: Eye Tracking in User Experience Design by Jennifer Romano Bergstrom and Andrew Schall. They write: " .... Eye Tracking for User Experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Verizon and Big Data Analytics
At the recent Big Data and Analytics Summit I attended a talk and had a chat with Ashok Srivastava of Verizon, who leads a new research and development center in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithmic Reporters
In Quartz: The examples that I have seen of this have not necessarily been very good, but it is inevitable to see this kind of filtering and re-presentation of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Humans do Better
What do humans still do better than robots? In the HBR blogs. Something we examined closely with a number of University collaborators. It turns out many, many...
From The Eponymous Pickle