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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
Videos online of the Service Design Global Conference
Nearly all videos of the recent Service Design Global Conference in Cardiff, Wales (19-20 November 2013) are now online: DAY 1 Making Data Useful The Service Design...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The day I subscribed to a dozen porn sites…
This morning, I noticed some odd charges on my Royal Bank VISA card. They were attributed to sites such as videosupport1.com, bngvsupport.com, paysupport1.com,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
MOOCs For Teacher Training–Not a Fan
Mark Guzdial shared some news about Google’s CS4HS program on Facebook today. Google's program to fund high school teacher professional development in CS willhttps...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data: Risks and Implications
Review of: Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, and Kenneth Cukier. Strongly recommended, for...
From Putting People First
Dan Hill: Can public enterprises adopt the popular dynamics of private enterprises?
In his latest Dezeen column, Dan Hill examines what services like the Uber taxi app mean for cities and asks whether the designers of public services can learn...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities of Legacy Code
An interesting research paper documents a "honeymoon effect" when it comes to software and vulnerabilities: attackers are more likely to find vulnerabilities in...
From Putting People First
American-centric UI is leveling tech culture — and design diversity
An article with a title like this cannot but intrigue me (being a non-American leading a non-USA company) – and even more so after I found out that it was written...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Age of Outsourcing
In CIOInsight: Good piece on the topic, which I have not covered in a while. Good approach, done well. " ... The biggest business driver of outsourcing has...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Mark Hill to Deliver Distinguished Lecture at NSF
On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 10 am EST, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member Mark Hill will be delivering a Distinguished Lecture at the National...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Study Machine Learning
An interesting guide to self-study machine learning. This introduced me to a number of resources I had not heard of. Good to browse. I still think that there...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Remembering Amazing Grace
In 2009, after significant advocacy work on the part of CSTA and ACM, the United States Congress passed a resolution (H. RES. 558) sponsored by Congressmen Vernon...
From Computational Complexity
Analogs between Quantum Computng and Parallelism
(Jon Katz wanted me to mention this: A wise man once noted that there are fewer quantum algorithms than thereare quantum-algorithms textbooks! But there is still...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook and Wal-Mart on Facial Recognition
In Adage: Piece on the interests of retailers and the social media on facial recognition. Not very surprising, given recent research in this domain. " ......
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Award
I'm really proud and honoured to have recently received one of our Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Awards! I got it last week at the faculty Christmas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Survey of Consumer Goods IT Strategy
In GroceryHeadquarters: Survey shows there are lots of opportunities, but spotty adoption:" ... Based on extensive surveys of 27 leading CPG companies, the report...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Cuts Jobs
Large CPG continues to cut marketing and other jobs. My own personal observation is that I have seen many of my former colleagues now out on the job market.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamic Pricing at Wal-Mart, etc.
MJ Perry compares dynamic pricing at Wal-Mart, Amazon and Delta Airlines. Intriquing view, which takes us back to how markets operate in contexts. Prices areProfitero...
From Schneier on Security
Attacking Online Poker Players
This story is about how at least two professional online poker players had their hotel rooms broken into and their computers infected with malware. I agree with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 December 2013
I tweeted a lot last week. I mean a real lot. Made it hard to sift through for the stuff with more lasting value than just all the great Computer Science Education...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson