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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
Marvin Minsky Honored
And more about AI in the MIT News. Marvin Minsky, another inspiration for us in our AI days, has been honored for lifetime achievement. I believe that some of...
From Putting People First
Interview with Leisa Reichelt, Head of User Research at UK Government Digital Services
Tricia Wang (see also previous post) just published her interview with Leisa Reichelt, Head of User Research at UK Government Digital Services. Tricia introduced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Hires more Artificial Intelligence
In Wired: More indication that Google is very interested in the topic. Hiring Geoff Hinton. He was a person we watched closely during our long exploration of...
From Putting People First
Tricia Wang: The Conceit of Oracles (talk notes)
Sociologist and ethnographer Tricia Wang has posted the notes of “The Conceit of Oracles: How we ended up in a world in which quantitative data is more valued than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revolutionizing 3D Printing
In CWorld: Can the use of 3D printing be generalized for many purposes? Will we ultimately insert 3D manufacturing options into supply chain designs for many"Researchers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Registration Now Open for the 2014 CSTA Annual Conference
If you are a K-12 computer science educator there is one must attend professional development conference during the year. That is the CSTA Annual Conference. Sure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Salman Kahn on Education
An interview in HBR with Salman Kahn, founder of the Kahn Academy. Just have started to dive in. " ... Salman Khan was working as a hedge fund analyst when...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Camouflage in Squid Eyes
Interesting research: Cephalopods possess a sophisticated array of mechanisms to achieve camouflage in dynamic underwater environments. While active mechanisms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Grocery Emerging
Will 2014 be the Year that online grocery will Leap forward? Are Amazon Fresh and Pantry be our future? Is it scale able and cost efficient? Bloomberg Business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Stakes Decision Making
On decision making in the HBR: Is about risk and behavior. " ... The next time you are thinking through a big-stakes decision ask yourself: “What happens first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Contact Lenses
And in Mashable: Why deal with glasses when you can build the information right onto the eye? " ... Google's new smart contact lens project that acts as a non...
From Schneier on Security
PowerLocker uses Blowfish
There's a new piece of ransomware out there, PowerLocker (also called PrisonLocker), that uses Blowfish: PowerLocker could prove an even more potent threat because...
From Schneier on Security
STUCCOMONTANA: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's implant from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: STUCCOMONTANA (TS//SI//REL) STUCCOMONTANA provides persistence for DNThere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micro Windmills
I like the idea of small. Nanotechnology is a good example. How about using small models for gathering energy? Here proposed for charging smartphones. Not sure...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Learning Form a Former Student
Each year during CS Ed Week I invite alumni to return to my school to talk about their education and careers with the junior class. I open it up to any alumni who...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Cruise Ship Conference
I've never been on a cruise before. Who would have thought that my first opportunity to sail would be for an academic conference on videogames? Come on, admit it...
From Putting People First
[Book] Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia by Anthony M. Townsend W. W. Norton & Company October 2013. 400 pages [Amazon link] Abstract...
From Putting People First
Why wearable tech is unwearable
Belindar Parmar, CEO of Lady Geek and founder of Little Miss Geek thinks that current wearable devices are “emblematic of a lack of empathy that pervades the technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle