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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
Designing and Visualization Connected
Stephen Few on Design in the Real World. Have discussed our experiments in this space recently. He states " ... designer/teacher Victor Papanek, whose work IWill...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi in Augmented Reality Digest
An interesting digest of augmented reality applications, most in marketing and entertainment driven, a good view of what is going on commercially in the space.Augmented...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 31 March 2014
I’ve been writing more code then usual lately. Mostly just for the fun of it. That means less time on the Internet collecting good links. But it’s been great getting...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Describes The Systems Engineering Analysis It Recommends For Surveillance Programs
In comments to both the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board and the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, USACM recommended the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Birds and Gamified Education
Having been involved in a number of gamification projects, I have always thought it is the gaming companies that could ultimately do the best in applying game dynamics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Meaning of R for Science and Industry
In FastcoLabs: Thoughtful piece about open source and science. I am in the midst of looking at packages for the application of data modeling and mining capabilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearables as a Sixth Health Sense
In CWorld: How do you think of wearable computing? We have become very used to having a device next to us that acts as sensor, library and communicator. So is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Democratizing Data Visualization
An upcoming look at the 'Exhibit' experiment, which I remember hearing about, but have not followed. In a couple of corporate connections the concept of 'democratizing...
From Putting People First
Behavioral approaches to product innovation at the Base of the Pyramid
Alexandra Fiorillo, Principal of GRID Impact, writes that if we want to achieve full financial inclusion, we cannot simply offer more financial products and services...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Taking Jobs
To what extent are robots starting to take substantial jobs? As an example, we examined ways to use robots in repetitive motion supply chain jobs, and in someIn...
From Putting People First
IBM invests $100M in interactive experience labs globally
IBM this week announced plans to commit more than $100 million to globally expand its consulting services capability to help clients with experience design and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Email Triggers and Analytics
Obvious, most interesting are the details of how this can extend these capabilities with new data and analytics. Then, where does the analytics invade? In ClickZ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Persuading and Looking Smart
I like the notion of a "Re-engineered Engineer', and try to look smart. And that I can persuade. While being friendly. But we all wonder, are we succeeding?Here...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Encounter Between a Submersible Robot and a Giant Squid
Wow....
From Computer Science Teachers Association
A Year Later: the Centrality of Teachers in Code.org
It has been a little over a year since Code.org released its viral video in the midst of a larger push for computer science education. The video used well-known...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Teen uses CS skills to discover way for government to save millions
A middle school student who used computer science to develop a hundred million dollar cost savings plan for the government was featured in an article on CNN.com...
From Schneier on Security
Creating Forensic Sketches from DNA
This seems really science fictional: It's already possible to make some inferences about the appearance of crime suspects from their DNA alone, including their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SIRI and Watson and Natural Language Processing
Interesting thoughts comparing SIRI and Watson. SIRI's natural language processing (NLP) capabilities and interface are her most obvious characteristics .......
From The Eponymous Pickle
Products and Manufacturing
Newly discovered blog: Product Lifestyle Stories: Insights on Products, manufacturing and service.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson