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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
Asimov's Future
Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov was a favorite of mine while growing up. He got a number of things right in his futuristic predictions, others wrong. ...
From Apophenia
Is the Oculus Rift sexist? (plus response to criticism)
Last week, I wrote a provocative opinion piece for Quartz called “Is the Oculus Rift sexist?” I’m reposting it on my blog for posterity, but also because I want...
From My Biased Coin
Postdocs in Copenhagen
I apologize for the short notice, but my occasional co-author Rasmus Pagh is looking for postdocs for a big data project he recently had funded, with an application...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces Irene Qualters as Division Director of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
On April 3, 2014, Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Directorate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Storytelling with Data
Good thoughts. Telling the story beyond what actually happened. That's good, but how do you also allow interaction and ensure objectivity? And connect to analytic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Analytics Handbook
In process, being developed by young students. Free with registration. " .... We're a group of UC Berkeley students and we're launching the Pt.1of our handbook...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Business Intelligence
In TDWI: A good goal and a graphic that brings a number of important issues to mind. But does not emphasize the key issue: How does the Intelligence map with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stopping Brainstorming
Most of my career was delineated by brainstorming to do innovation in many contexts. This is an interesting anti brainstorming view. I agree that sticky voting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Using Physical Maps
An augmented reality game that uses physical maps. We examined an application that had similarities, well before the smartphone era. It explored and utilized...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Innovates in Asia, Opens Singapore Innovation Center
Another new center to add to dozens more global centers. See here for earlier innovation center coverage in this blog. The full article is a fairly detailed view...
From Writing
So long, and thanks for all the t-shirts
In 2009, I joined LinkedIn as a Software Engineer. 5 years, 25 t-shirts, 50 hackdays, 4000 employees, several hundred million members, a billion dollars in revenue...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
NJ CSTA Chapters Join Forces!
CSTA-Central NJ and CSTA-Northern NJ are working together with their advocacy efforts. A few members from each chapter focus on state-wide advocacy. The mission...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First CPG Brand Using In-Store Beacon from InMarket
After I mentioned iBeacon, I was sent a link to an example of a CPG in store use, appears to be the first major CPG brand doing this beyond test. InMarket's...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What has caught my attention lately: Dilbert on A/B testing: "Bend to my will and choose the orange button, you mindless click-puppets!" ([1]) Major performance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Practical Operational Details on iBeacon: An emergent Minority Report?
Covered here previously. ClickZ provides some additional details. I don't see it as revolutionary but its origin has made many people pay attention. This article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Sense of Big Data
In Baseline: Regarding my favorite topic, how important visualization is to analytics. While here the term Big Data is heavily used, the idea is broader than that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Expansion of Wal-Mart Labs
On expansions of Wal-Mart Labs. I like to think that our many conversations with Wla-Mart led to some of the ideas and directions seen here. " .... One of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Short Guide to Mobile Computing
In ClickZ: A short marketers guide to mobile computing. Nicely done, covers a number of issues I had not seen stated.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Cloud Investment
Cisco makes cloud investments. " ... Cisco Systems says it will launch a cloud effort with a $1 billion investment over the next two years, including construction...
From Schneier on Security