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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
Changing the Organizational Leaders
In McKinsey: How do you make leaders aware of the need to change themselves in new contexts? Not easily done. " ... Leo Tolstoy, the Russian novelist, famously...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Updates on ChoreMonster
A former colleague's startup, new updates:" ... ChoreMonster, the platform that wants to encourage your kids to do their household tasks by rewarding them for achieving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making a Microscope Out of Paper
An interesting example of how devices can be redesigned in unexpected ways. Here a microscope made out of paper. An example of how remote 3D manufacture might...
From Schneier on Security
"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't
This headline is provocative: "Human biology inspires 'unbreakable' encryption." The article is similarly nonsensical: Researchers at Lancaster University, UK have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Summer Hackers Immersion Program 2014
Mike Zamansky announced this program on his blog yesterday. (Announcing SHIP) It sounds amazing. It’s being run at St Joseph’s College in Brooklyn and is for students...![[Book] A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences
A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences by Sarah Horton & Whitney Quesenbery Rosenfeld Media, 2013 288 pages In their new book, A Web for Everyone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger is #3 In InformationWeek
Via Robert Migliara: Retailer Kroger is #3 in the 2014 InformationWeek Elite 100 Winners. (My former enterprise is #75)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Receipts
In Supermarket News: Simple idea. For loyalty purchases only. Searchable. I recall a number of test shoppers asking for this capability. At ShopRite.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science as a School District Marketing Tool
We are seeing many indications these days that administrators are realizing that a strong computer science curriculum for students is a critical aspect of providing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Roundtable Replay
Last week attended my first Spreecast for an IBM Big Data Roundtable. You can see a replay of the entire event. An overview of impressions by practitioners, sellers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dealing with an Always On IT Culture
In CWorld: It is clearly a culture. It is learned in school now, and at home, and utilizes multiple strata of communications and analysis and alerting capabilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook and Advertising
In AdAge: Came up in a recent conversation. How can Facebook drive advertising? And in particular, how do they appeal to the small and medium sized business?
From Schneier on Security
The Youngest Security Researcher
Five-year-old finds login vulnerability in Microsoft Xbox....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forecasting Tournaments
Interesting term, similarity to predictive markets and wisdom of the crowds. We ran some models in this space. Government reactions to use of related methods,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metadata Lifecycle Models
For some proposed research I had been asked to look at metadata lifecycle models. Here is an interesting high level model for metadata lifecycle management. ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 April 2014
Spring has sprung. Well at least the last of the snow is gone. Seems like late here but it hardly matters as I’ve been busy with school anyway. Seems like lastwhat...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Farnam Jahanian to become Vice President for Research at Carnegie Mellon University
Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director for the Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF), has been selected...
From Computational Complexity
How free is Randomness?
Matthew Green had a great post on the topic how do you know a random number generator is working. Gee, I just look at the sequence and see if it LOOKS random. ...
From CERIAS Blog
Thoughts on the RSA Conference, Boycotts, and Babes
I’ve been delayed in posting this as I have been caught up in travel, teaching, and the other exigencies of my “day job,” including our 15th annual CERIAS Symposium...
From CERIAS Blog