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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
Open Science
Open science and its implications. See Open Science Foundation, and its twitter feed. " ... The Open Science Federation is a nonprofit alliance working to improve...
From Schneier on Security
NSA/GCHQ Accused of Hacking Belgian Cryptographer
There has been a lot of news about Bengian cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater having his computer hacked, and whether the NSA or GCHQ is to blame. It's a lot...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 February 2014
A lot of people seem the be ready for spring. I’m enjoying the snow in my yard and around the area. Inspired in part by the Winter Olympics going on my family and...
From Computational Complexity
Superbowl underdogs and overdogs
(Stephen Colbert tells me that NFL guards their copyright of the name of the game they played on Sunday, which is why stores say they have a `big game sale on beer'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nike Fuel Infographic as a Model
Currently thinking about how a visual could be used to provide an easily scan-able graphic. Consider the infographic as an easy to refer to summary of the data...
From Putting People First
Adam Gopnik: “Why I don’t tweet”
Adam Gopnik, who writes for the New Yorker, has only ever sent nine tweets. In this long BBC article he explains why: ” Everyone insists that the technological...
From Putting People First
Move over product design, UX is the future
Rick Wise, CEO of Lippincott, says experience innovation is the next design imperative. Here are five things you can do this year to make that happen. “Today’s...
From Putting People First
There is no UX, there is only UX
Leisa Reichelt, Head of User Research at the Government Digital Service [GDS] in the UK Cabinet Office, argues that UX belongs everywhere and nowhere. That there...
From Putting People First
A review of Adam Greenfield’s Against the Smart City
Chris Carlsson started reading Adam Greenfield’s new book, Against the Smart City, “with the expectation that it would be a critical view of the ways our urban...
From Putting People First
How Big Brother’s going to peek into your connected home
The tech industry easily convinced the public to accept a myriad of free services for the price of some loss of privacy. But getting them to embrace the smart home...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Open Catalog of Resources
Brought to my attention, the DARPA open catalog, which links to available computational, analytical and visualization resources. Note mention of XDATA and Big"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocery and Twitter
Orlando Publix using Twitter. Good example of simple social media use in physical retail. " .... A year ago this month, Publix realized its customers were already...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Visual Organization
Forthcoming book brought to my attention, an idea we have frequently supported here. For example, see the following post. Look forward to a deeper examination...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Get to the Point and the Focus
A long time enterprise goal was to facilitate focus to tasks. Projects like P&G's Business Sphere, starting with earlier work in executive information systems,...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Black Versus White Boxes
What is better than how (?) History of filters source. Wilhelm Cauer was a German mathematician and engineer who worked in Göttingen and the US between the two...
From CERIAS Blog
You’re invited!
Four days -- two major events! The 15th Annual CERIAS Security Symposium Purdue University, March 26-27, 2014 We're living in a time of transition. Cyberthreats...
From CERIAS Blog
You’re invited!
Four days -- two major events! The 15th Annual CERIAS Security Symposium Purdue University, March 26-27, 2014 We're living in a time of transition. Cyberthreats...
From CERIAS Blog
You’re invited!
Four days -- two major events! The 15th Annual CERIAS Security Symposium Purdue University, March 26-27, 2014 We're living in a time of transition. Cyberthreats...
From CERIAS Blog
You’re invited!
Four days -- two major events! The 15th Annual CERIAS Security Symposium Purdue University, March 26-27, 2014 We're living in a time of transition. Cyberthreats...
From The Eponymous Pickle