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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
Google Acquires Rangespan
Addressing supply chain management. " .... Google has made another move to build out its e-commerce business, and specifically its retail portal Google Shopping...
From Putting People First
Mayo Clinic study highlights potential of mobile technology to transfer patient rehabilitation
In a recent study out of the Mayo Clinic (reported on by iMedicalApps), patients undergoing cardiac rehabilitation post-MI were offered the opportunity to use an...
From Putting People First
[Book] Handbook of Anthropology in Business
Handbook of Anthropology in Business Editors: Rita M. Denny and Patricia L. Sunderland Left Coast Press 752 pp. / May, 2014 In recent years announcements of the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Appreciating Teachers
Today marks the end of National Teacher Appreciation Week and I find myself wondering how many current students or former students actually took the time to say...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
May 15 WATCH Talk: STAR-Vote – A Secure, Transparent, Auditable and Reliable Voting System
On May 15, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will host it’s next Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour (WATCH) talk. The talk will be “STAR-Vote – A Secure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Viewed by Philosphers of Mathematics
In a very philosphical, long, but non technical piece from the AMS, provocative. A methodological danger? Worth reading. Is Big Data Enough? A Reflection on the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Truth Box
Dan Ariely presents the traveling truth box. How might this create a baseline for understanding our conception of truth? How does it change the behavioral...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization: Food Availability
Another interesting Tableau example. Here food availability. I like the interactive aspects of the visual. " ... Graham Douglas of The Economist shows us how...
From Schneier on Security
Putin Requires Russian Bloggers to Register with the Government
This is not good news. Widely known as the "bloggers law," the new Russian measure specifies that any site with more than 3,000 visitors daily will be considered...
From Computational Complexity
1984 + 30
Back in 7th grade we had some discussion in history class long since forgotten but was ended by the statement "Remember, 1984 is only eight years away". While the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can You Explain the Binary Clock?
Some years ago my wife bought me a binary clock. I have it sitting on my desk at school facing the students. It drives the students crazy. What is it? A clock....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture – The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a Distinguished Lecture on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Life Forms in the Internet of Things
Security chief of In-Q-Tel suggests that entities in the Internet of Things are life forms. " ... They are immortal in the sense that they can continue to function...
From Schneier on Security
Retelling of Stories Increases Bias
Interesting experiment shows that the retelling of stories increases conflict and bias. For their study, which featured 196 undergraduates, the researchers created...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Cognitive to be Included in University Curricula
Press release: " ... In Fall, 2014, New Courses Will Inspire University Students to Build Apps Infused with Watson's Intelligence While Gaining the Entrepreneurial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Provenance for Analytics
A short piece in the CACM that points to a larger paper. That larger paper requires subscription. I am using this for some work on metadata uses. ProvenanceFull...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rules for Shopper Privacy
From the recent IDC Retail Insights, in CGT: The customer stands center stage in omnichannel retail. Earning the privilege of relationships, relevance, and reciprocity...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Easiest Impossible Problem
A simple problem that seems impossible to solve Péter Frankl is a “Hungarian mathematician and street performer”—quoting our friends at Wikepedia. He is also a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who is a Data Scientist?
So what are they? I have been doing work in this area for a long time, but the term for the practitioner has changed often. Its about working with lots of data...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson