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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
Neuromarketing and Consumer Behavior
Had not seen this site before. Here it is looks at a number of neuromarketing tests and associated data. Useful thoughts, in particular about the limitations"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apps as Medical Devices
Apps and their regulation: Agree, this is a big deal. " ... The potential of medical apps to improve care and lower costs is enormous. But if developers don’t...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Board of Directors Election
The election for six open positions of the CSTA Board of Directors is underway. If you were a CSTA member as of April 1, you should have received an email with...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The financial value of open source software
We all rely daily on free and open source software, whether we know it or not. The entire Internet is held together by open source software. The cheap router that...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My FDG 2014 Cruise Ship Conference Experience
You may recall that I was going to a conference on a cruise ship in April. Well, I'm back from Foundations of Digital Games 2014 and am happy to report that Iall...
From Apophenia
Whether it’s bikes or bytes, teens are teens
(This piece was written for the LA Times, where it was published as an op-ed on April 11, 2014.) If you’re like most middle-class parents, you’ve probably gotten...
From Schneier on Security
GoGo Wireless Adds Surveillance Capabilities for Government
The important piece of this story is not that GoGo complies with the law, but that it goes above and beyond what is required by law. It has voluntarily decided...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
WATCH Talk – Deborah Frincke on “Education and Training NSA/CSS Style”
The next WATCH Talk is scheduled for April 17 at noon EST. Deborah Frincke will discuss Education and Training within the National Security Agency/Central Security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Coming back. What Will it look Like Now?
Short piece on a number of examples how what we called AI is coming back. Multiple and extended projects in the 90's led to real results, but not to extended...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links–14 April 2014
Crazy busy weekend for me. The weather was great and I got a lot done outside. Left me too tired to write this up last night. Sorry for the early birds who usually...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Code: Echo–Programming Challenge
Using a coding challenge as a promotional event for a movie? This is a new one on me but it looks interesting. What I especially like is that they are sharing resources...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Summer Work for Computer Science and Robotics Instructors
If you are a member of the CSTA you should have received this announcement via email. BUT if you didn’t or you are not a CSTA member (why not?) I thought this worth...
From Computational Complexity
Factorization in coNP- in other domains?
I had on an exam in my grad complexity course to show that the following set is in coNP FACT = { (n,m) : there is a factor y of n with 2 \le y \le m } The answer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Diamond Cartel
Mark J Perry on the ultimate market manipulation, the diamond cartel. Perception, however manipulated, is reality.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metadata Lifecycle Management Considerations
An interesting diagrammatic look at the lifecycle of metadata. Everything has a lifecycle, but the question is always: To what degree do we have to pay close attention...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification as a Mainstream Approach
Short piece in CIO Insight: Makes the case that gamification is in common internal and external use. And quotes:" ... Accenture points out that gamification isn't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magic of Shelf Level Eye Contact
In Supermarket News: Shelf level eye contact can make a big difference. It was one of the first things we attempted to accurately quantify when designing shelf...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Loyal Customers
Knowledge@Wharton: In an information age. " .... While the digital age has changed the rules of marketing, a panel of experts at the recent Wharton Marketing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
KDNuggets for Analytics
Long before Big Data there was KDNuggets. Well worth the follow. Which is a " ... Data Mining Community Top Resource for Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle