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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
Speedier Checkouts
Always a big labor and satisfaction consideration for physical retail:Kroger takes retail technology of the year:" ... While the bigger retail technology buzz last...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualization of Telecommuting Data
A good data visualization of information about US telecommuting, with a strong ability to interact with the data. In the Tableau Public site. Much better than...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Jigging
Good news from Malaysia: The Terengganu International Squid Jigging Festival (TISJF) will be continued and become an annual event as one of the state's main tourism...
From Schneier on Security
Metaphors of Surveillance
There's a new study looking at the metaphors we use to describe surveillance. Over 62 days between December and February, we combed through 133 articles by 105...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shoppers Want More Value
Pretty obvious stuff. Shoppers want an exchange of value. The specific statistics are of interest.Grocery shoppers want more from mobile apps, survey finds ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Giving Up Your Right to Sue
In the press recently. Users apparently giving up their right to sue via user agreements. Unclear how binding this is legally, and the broader implications, but...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
A New Phenomenon Cropping Up
A new phenomenon cropping up certainly among college age students that is trickling down to the K12 arena is the concept of a hackathon. Often the events take place...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Hackathons as Possible Student Motivators
A new phenomenon cropping up certainly among college age students that is trickling down to the K12 arena is the concept of a hackathon. Often the events take place...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Individual Data for Health
In the CACM: Not a new idea, but more value as we leverage analytics against bigger data. Even for our own N=1." ... Consider a new kind of cloud-based app that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mission Critical Lesson from P&G
Edward Burghard comments on the A.G. Lafley speech to the Association of National Advertisers 10-15-2000. Had not seen this, quite good. A Mission Critical....
From Computational Complexity
Announcements
Time for a short rundown of announcements. STOC will be held May 31-June 3 in New York City. Early registration and hotel deadline is April 30. Student travel...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Mark Hill featured in NSF video
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member Mark Hill was featured by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in their “Discoveries“. Hill’s work on the...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Dumais Athena Lecturer Award
ACM COUNCIL ON WOMEN HAILS INNOVATOR IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Microsoft Research’s Dumais Changed the Way People Search for Information NEW YORK, April 8, 2014http...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Resource Revolution
In McKinsey: Good overview of the challenge. The emergence of a resource revolution to feed the technological changes created by innovation. Lots of needs,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where will the Knowledge come From?
Recent conversations have brought this to mind. People resource definitions in particular have become specialized and necessary. Companies are ready to pay, but...
From Schneier on Security
Overreacting to Risk
This is a crazy overreaction: A 19-year-old man was caught on camera urinating in a reservoir that holds Portland's drinking water Wednesday, according to city...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Smart Business Notebook Network
In FastCompany: As a long time user of Evernote, this was interesting. Pointing towards the Moleskin physical notebook. So not paperless. Had been unaware of...
From Schneier on Security
Tails
Nice article on the Tails stateless operating system. I use it. Initially I would boot my regular computer with Tails on a USB stick, but I went out and bought...
From The Eponymous Pickle