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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
Practical Virtual Reality for Work
We explored many opportunities in this space. But not with success. See the tag link on Virtual Reality at the bottom of this post for some examples about that...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Using Computer Science to Develop Personalized Cancer Treatments
The use of computer science is making significant contributions on improving the treatment of cancer. A recent New York Times article, highlighted how oncologists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Methods for Dealing with Product Counterfeiting
An important challenge for the CPG enterprise. Nothing very new here, but some thoughts about how to address these challenges. Emphasizing food and beverage issues...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Made in the Future
Tim Brown of IDEO announces: Made in the Future. Looks to be of interest:Does changing how you make things change the way you live?The answer is “yes,” according...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My Students Are Not Me
Sometime in elementary school a teacher taught number bases. I was fascinated. It was interesting. It was fun. It made perfect sense to me. I spent hours converting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blocking the Mobile Augmented Web
A curious example that I was unaware of. I had heard of BuildAR through their partnering with AR company Metaio. Providing AR within standard Web browsers would...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Extended Formulations
The first couple of favorite theorems took place at the beginning of the last decade, but recent years have brought exciting results as well, such as the limitations...
From Writing
Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding
Every now and then, I stumble across a programming language that does something so different that it changes how I think about coding. In this post, I want to share...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alfred Yarbus Centenary: Tracking Eye Movement
An intriguing piece on the history of eye movement tracking technologies, via the work of Alfred Yarbus, written by Tim Holmes:" ... These days, we take the ability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Analytic Talent
Just received. A quick look indicated that this is a useful, only mildly technical look at what is being called Data Science. A guide and handbook for anyoneDeveloping...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flexible Packaging Machines
In AutomationWorld: "Consumer packaged goods companies are responding to retailers' needs for a wide range of goods by using flexible packaging machines that include...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensors by Apple
What apple is doing with sensors. An overview of techniques, companies and people involved in sensor systems that could show up in Apple products.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Charting Global Negotation Styles
Some charted visual examples of cultural negotiation styles ...The charts sometimes seem like caricatures, interesting, but I would not bet on them. They do...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Rolls Out New Look to “CS Bits & Bytes”
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Gera Jochum. Jochum is the Communications Specialist for the Computer & Information Science & Engineering...
From Schneier on Security
Heartbleed
Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL: "The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions...
From Putting People First
Ethnography in action at Wells Fargo
Only a few years ago, the corporate view of retirement planning at San Francisco-based Wells Fargo Bank tended to focus on dollars and cents — how much an individual...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Don’t Just Grab the Wheel, Ask the Driver to Turn
We’re learning about classes and related topics like data hiding and using methods rather than public data in my programming class these days. One of the students...
From Putting People First
Tell me a story: augmented reality technology in museums
Museums around the world today face the challenge of increasing and maintaining visitor numbers, especially with younger audiences. A fall in visitors is seen by...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Innovation in Neuroscience: Post from a CIFellow Alumnus
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Ian Stevenson. Stevenson was a 2011-2013 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) at the Redwood Center for...
From The Eponymous Pickle