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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 Putting People First
The anthropology of Big Data
The anthropology of an equation. Sieves, spam filters, agentive algorithms, and ontologies of transformation Paul Kockelman This article undertakes the anthropology...
From Putting People First
The epistemology of Big Data
In addressing the insecurities of postmodern thought, Big Data falls prey to some of the same issues of interpretation, writes Michael Pepi in The New Enquirer....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Road to Xavier Gamification for Student Engagement
Gamifying student experience. Local Xavier University is using gaming dynamics to engage both Candidate students and Freshmen to the experience of the University...
From Putting People First
How do e-books change the reading experience?
Mohsin Hamid and Anna Holmes discuss in the New York Times Book Review how technology affects our reading habits. Mohsin Hamid argues that in a world of intrusive...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Where will the internet go in 2014?
On December 30, 2013, John Markoff wrote an article in The New York Times, titled Viewing Where the Internet Goes. He takes a brief look back at what happened...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Criticisms of Big Data
Some good cautions and criticisms of the big data world. Instructive piece that is worth a read. " .... in the race to unlock this promise, many enterprises...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jobs in an Always-on World
In Adage: Time to Reinvent Job Structures to Survive an Always-On WorldMarketing Is About Making Your Brand as Relevant as Possible, and Now You Need to Do It in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Co-Acceleration
More on D-wave quantum computing, which we have followed for some years. There remain very difficult analytical problems that we need computer speed to solve routinely...
From Schneier on Security
More about the NSA's Tailored Access Operations Unit
Der Spiegel has a good article on the NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit: basically, its hackers. The article also has more details on how QUANTUM -- particularly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Look Back on 2013’s Posts
Time for an end of the year look back on the posts from 2013. I was trying to decide if I should just report on the most read posts or do the work to list my favorite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Appliance Makers and the Internet of Things
More on the Internet of Things consortium, connecting appliances:" ... Home appliance makers connect with open source 'Internet of things' projectThe AllSeen Alliance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MindMeld Again: Focusing Employee Work
Early this year I mentioned MindMeld, which was meant to monitor your conversations and give helpful advice. Now MindMeld is here as an App. We looked to methods...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Awards Chapter Advocacy Mini Grants
Recently, CSTA completed the first round of CSTA chapter advocacy mini grants. These mini grants were given to local chapters for activities focusing on affecting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 30 December 2013
Not a lot to share this week. Last week was Christmas and I spent a lot less time on the Internet than usual. However if you are looking for a few interesting things...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Winner Is…
Our selections for best results of the year Terry Gilliam is the director of the movie The Zero Theorem. This science fiction film came out just this past year,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Watch from Qualcomm
I have been watching companies like Qualcomm and their activities outside of the typical. Posts on that here. Now new report on their Smartwatch capability....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discovery Driven Prototyping
In Computing Now: An area we examined. Here an abstract of the paper at the link:" ... A new prototyping technique uses discovery-driven prototypes to letIt...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Academies Workshop: Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data
The National Academies Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications is sponsoring a workshop on Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data, hosted...
From Schneier on Security
Joseph Stiglitz on Trust
Joseph Stiglitz has an excellent essay on the value of trust, and the lack of it in today's society. Trust is what makes contracts, plans and everyday transactions...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog