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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
Falsifying Evidence on a Smart Phone
Here's a way to plant false evidence -- call records, locations, etc -- on your smart phone. I have no idea how good this will be. Presumably it will be an arms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Difficulty of Robot Challenges
In CWorld: Robots have been able to do some very impressive things lately. But it is often hard to make them do specific tasks that human can do autonomously. "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer Science as a Science
In CACM: It has been suggested that Computer Science is more a technology than a Science, and not rigorous enough to be a 'Math'. Is that worth arguing about?...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet as Revolution in Business
Thomas Malone .... In Technology Review: " .... an excerpt from Thomas W. Malone’s 2004 book, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape YourWe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 June 2014
School is out! Well after lunch today school is over for the year for me and my school. I’ll miss the kids over the summer but I’m ready for a break. I plan toOffice...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Honor Thy Fathers Correctly
Partly a rant from today’s New York Times source—note the “\cdots” Aryabhata is often called the father of Indian mathematics, and can be regarded as the progenitor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Remote Sensors for Pulse and Beathing
In the MIT News: I would expected this could have been done remotely for some time, but it can be difficult. Has any work been done for blood pressure, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Architecture of Work
A favorite topic that we dabbled with in innovation spaces. Is the starting piece of the quote below still correct? Reviewing, in the WSJ: " .... How you work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Models for the Data Economy
Just finished Business Models for the Data Economy by Q. Ethan McCallum and Ken Gleason amzn.to/Hd67f6 A free book/paper. " ... You're sitting on a pile of interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driving Talent for Innovation
How do you build talent to drive innovation? Some insightful thought here. Spurred by an APQC survey.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Taking over the Public Sector
Not a trend I have generally seen, but perhaps in Australia, here reported in the Guardian. " ... Big data: how predictive analytics is taking over the public...
From Putting People First
Behaviour change presentations at Nudgestock event
On 6 June OgilvyChange, the specialist behavioural sciences practice of Ogilvy & Mather UK, hosted the second edition of Nudgestock, the “largest gathering of behavioural...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Machines
Just completed this book. And had a conversation with Steve Hamm, one of the authors. A very good, most nicely non technical introduction to work at IBM research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HP Claims New Computer Architecture
In BusWeek: The Machine, they call it. Admit had not seen this, but intriguing. But sounds like its different implementations of the parts, rather than a new...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Establishing Your Moral Structure via Video Games
Edward Snowden makes the claim. It should be interesting to see what this moral structure actually looks like. Speculated on in the piece. " ... What is the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I Am Not a Bug
The term "undocumented feature" is a humorous term for something that was not planned in software. OH for sure there can be features added to a product that are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Proximity Applications with iBeacon
New book, available in early pre edit form. Building Proximity Applications with iBeacon - O'Reilly " ... Information on pinpoint locations can be extremely...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found in Canadian Squid
This is not good news. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security
"Erotica Written By Someone With An Appropriate Sense of Privacy"
Funny....
From The Eponymous Pickle