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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
Robert Fabricant on scaling your UX strategy
Leading businesses like Google are exploring scalable strategies that make UX relevant to engineers and MBAs across their organizations. Robert Fabricant has posted...
From Putting People First
Britain’s Ministry of Nudges
The title of this New York Times article sounds like a Monty Python sketch (intentionally, I guess). But the article is luckily quite a lot more serious, exploring...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Computing at Intel
Wave fingers, making faces: The future of computing at Intel, from CNET Mobile. We had early connections with Intel Corp at our innovation Centers, including...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Principal Components Analysis in R
Principal Components Analysis and other Factor Analysis tools came up in a recent discussion. Here a discussion in Linkedin about such capabilities in R. Good...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Government Data Visualization
Interesting work at the MIT Media Lab, where we were members for years. This looks like a good approach to examine further as a means of democratizing data. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Explaining Hadoop: (More about How)
In Forbes: Hadoop came some time after I had the role, but I was often called upon to provide a minimally technical explanation of new Tech. Here is a good one...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Are You Looking Forward to Hour of Code?
After my last blog piece, I got to work on my Hour of Code activity. I was trying to decide where to hold an Hour of Code activity and who to invite. After much...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uptalking for Affirmation is Spreading
When we seek affirmation we have our spoken sentences rise in frequency towards their conclusion. We experimented with the idea for analyzing 800 line callsIn ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata Blogs
Recently had cause to take a look at Teradata. I revisited their set of blogs, which cover database, big data and analytics topics. Paying good attention to innovation...
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Coffee too Cheap?
In Der Spiegel: Pricing analysis with neuromarketing. I agree with some of the commenters that the study seems to come from a warped hypothesis. But I have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearables to Exceed $8 Billion
A considerable move forward. What will the implications be for business, for the average consumer? Considering them as companion devices is also useful. And...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Solutions for Retailers
Am still tracking RFID solutions for retailers. This still have the most traction in apparel applications. Here an end to end solution. Addressing the usual"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Apple's iBeacon in Apple Stores
In CWworld: Apple is using them in their own stores. " ... Apple is taking a closer look at shoppers in its retail stores, under a new program that will push...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Hoax Squid-Like Creature
The weird squid-like creature floating around Bristol Harbour is a hoax. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Judging A Book By Its Coverage
Flaws in constitution Cropped from book page. Rebecca Goldstein is the author of the book Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel. She obtained her...
From Schneier on Security
New Book: Carry On
I have a new book. It's Carry On: Sound Advice from Schneier on Security, and it's my second collection of essays. This book covers my writings from March 2008...
From Schneier on Security
Bruce Schneier Facts T-Shirts
0-Day Clothing has taken 25 Bruce Schneier Facts and turned them into T-shirts just in time for Christmas.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Best Social Networks for Brands
What appears to be an interesting study:Study: Brands' best bet for social media is Instagram Instagram beat out Facebook, Twitter and Google+ in a study comparing...
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Genetically Tailored Beverages
More examples of personalization:Coca-Cola CTO sees genetically-tailored beverages in the future"It's not going to be that far out that we will talk about personalized...
From The Eponymous Pickle