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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
Facebook Ethnographically
On a report that has gone viral. Teens are leaving Facebook as their parents send them friend requests. " ... Comprehensive study has found teens are moving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Analytics
In CIO Insight:The future of analytics Is Streaming in the Cloud:" ... Business analytics is becoming more prescriptive and making information available in real...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discern Analytics
Just brought to my attention, with some former colleagues in its management: Discern Analytics. They write:" ... We love data. Massive amounts of it.Our cloud-based...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Fair Use
In TechDirt: Good extended piece on recent hearings on copyright and fair use. A concept often made use of in this blog. " .... It is twenty years since the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting People to Share Knowledge
Big issue in the enterprise. A good gook at the topic. Actual implementation is tougher." ... 9 steps to get people to share knowledge ... From launching a community...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why Counting CS as a Foreign Language Credit is a Bad Idea
Sometimes what seems like a very good idea in principle, even a good idea put forward with the best intensions, can turn out to be a very bad idea in practice.Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Onboarding Users
On how to onboard new users. Its harder that you think. Different users have very different expectations of how they expect to be introduced to your great idea...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Data Cubes
Data Cubes came up in a meeting yesterday and though I knew in general what they were, I sought out a more general and useful definition. I found this. Comments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplify Outdated Corporate Processes
In the HBR, where registration for full text is now required. Yes, simplify is always good to consider. " ... rebuilding your processes from the ground up with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Product Success
Predicting Product Launch success. We worked on this using a number of simulation based methods. Interesting case study here: " ... Back in May, Kaggle ran...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid T-Shirt
A T-shirt with a drawing of a squid reading. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
IRATEMONK: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: IRATEMONK (TS//SI//REL) IRATEMONK provides software application persistence...
From Michael Nielsen
Reinventing Explanation
My new essay on the use of digital media to explain scientific ideas is here.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Has An Identity Problem
Where does computer science fit? At the university level I’ve seen it in Business departments/Schools of Business. I’ve seen it in various science schools – Schools...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What's Watson for Midsize Companies?
Back on January 9th I attended the IBM announcement of its group for Watson applications. I tweeted the announcement at @FranzD #IBMWatson. Full announcement....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attributing Attacks on the Internet of Things
A discussion of the implication of security on the Internet of Things. If everything is connected, the path to us or our households brings insecurity yet closer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting Cloud and Business
Connecting the cloud and big data for business. A piece from Pneuron, which I am looking into. I was struck by this statement: " ... Data is more volatile than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Systems to Prevent Deception Fail
A discussion of systems that are meant to prevent deception and unethical behavior. In Knowledge@Wharton. A topic in any system that is meant to gather human"...
From Schneier on Security
Another Credit-Card-as-Authentication Hack
This is a pretty impressive social engineering story: an attacker compromised someone's GoDaddy domain registration in order to change his e-mail address and steal...
From Putting People First