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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
Omnipresent Robots says Google
Bloomberg: Google’s Schmidt Sees Robots Omnipresent ‘in a Good Way’. " .. Google is pushing ahead with products beyond its core search business for new sources...
From Wild WebMink
Bitcoin exchanges need to get their act together
Originally posted on Meshed Insights & Knowledge:Sometimes it seems as though bitcoin is a required fixture in the news. The recent collapse of Mt Gox is just the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Expands Cyber-Physical Systems Program to Include DHS, DOT
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Keith Marzullo, division director for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Computer and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mentee Outreach
As part of an informal personal mentee outreach program I will be experimenting with the use of this blog and associated social media. All of these people are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Famous Women in Computing Infographic
Very nice Famous Women in Computing Infographic from the Anita Borg Institute.
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Wins GEO Award for Outsourcing Innovation
The 2014 awards. See in particular the complete case study. Nicely done by my former colleagues, congratulations. " ... Global Business Services: The Beginning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Firms Merge
Have worked with Sands, unexpected. More movement on understanding of non conscious marketing. In Neuromarketing: " ... Neuromarketing Consolidation: Sands Research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Touchscreen Design
New ingenious touchscreen user interfaces. Suitable for navigation and other tasks that support and augment driving?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Based Enterprise
On the analytics based enterprise. " ... Analytics-based Enterprise and Risk Performance Management. Enterprise performance management (EPM) is the integration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visibility and Predictive Supply Chain Analytics
In Digital Supply Chain: True, we have known for a long time. Devil is in the precise details of data gathered, decisions being influenced and analytics used...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Knowing The Syntax Is Not Enough
This week has been hectic for a lot of reasons. Getting my grades and comments in for progress reports has just been part of it. I haven’t had the time or energy...
From Putting People First
How collaborating with patients improves hospital care
The Guardian reports on how a new UK project where patients and NHS staff work together to improve services shows that even small changes can have a big impact...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Unique Games
Michel Goemans and David Williamson made a splash in the 90's using semidefinite programming to give a new approximation algorithm for the max-cut problem, a ratio...
From Putting People First
The user experience of enterprise technology
Most big businesses globally are locked into some kind of reliance on enterprise technology. Unfortunately such systems are not only fiendishly difficult to install...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Report Urges States to Expand Computer Science Education
Citing the rapid growth of computing jobs in virtually every industry sector in the United States, ACM today issued a report urging states to provide more opportunities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Limits of Decision Models and Analytical Systems
A favorite topic. On the benefits and limits. Limits are a particularly important aspect that is often not considered. How do you effectively integrate them with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics in the Oilfield
The latest March/April issue of Analytics Magazine: " ... Articles in this issue features commentary and contributed content from several industry leaders, including...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Tal Rabin Named 2014 Women of Vision by the Anita Borg Institute
Tal Rabin, Manager of the Cryptography Research Group at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member, has won the...
From Putting People First
De l’importance de l’ethnographie appliquée aux technologies
For once a post in French! Hubert Guillaud of InternetActu describes some examples – mostly from the recent EPIC conference – of the great contribution of ethnography...
From Putting People First