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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
No Such Thing as Electronic Privacy
In Compterworld: With more stories coming out about NSA, this short post explains how there is no such thing as privacy in electronics. Privacy as a delusion....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New York Times Article Highlights Computer Science Research in Medical Devices
Computer science has been an active component of medical devices for a long time, but has recently been brought to the spotlight by former Vice President Dick Cheney...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kellogg Mobile Augmented Reality Marketing
A nice example of using augmented reality in marketing by Kellogg. With music. " .... Kellogg is joining General Mills and Mondelez International in bringing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Last Chance: Analytics for Executives.
LAST CHANCE. Regional interest in the use of Analytics. Talk from successful professional practitioners. In particular suitable for executives seeking to understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Idio Platform
I noted that longtime correspondent Damon Ragusa of Thinkvine is now connected with Idio. Which "... understands your customer’s interests and intent through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Discontinuous Innovation
Manager at Unisys Posts: How do we manage disruptive trends? Some good thoughts here. Match our own experiences in the enterprise. Remembering that roughly"...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Video Games and Learning: My First MOOC Experience
Way back in the springtime I signed up for a Coursera offering on video games and learning. I had no idea when the course would actually be offered, and forgot...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 28
October 29 Markup: (Rescheduled from October 24) The House Homeland Security Committee will review pending legislation, including H.R. 3107, the Cybersecurity Boots...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Doing Data Science
Now available for order: Doing Data Science Paperback by Cathy O'Neil, Rachel Schutt: I like the general premise, do not have yet:" ... Each chapter-long lecture...
From Schneier on Security
Understanding the Threats in Cyberspace
The primary difficulty of cyber security isn't technology -- it's policy. The Internet mirrors real-world society, which makes security policy online as complicated...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 October 2013
The first quarter at my school closed last Friday. The year seems to be flying by. I guess it is true what they say about time flying when you are having fun. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise and Big Data
On Enterprise Big Data: some good points made here. There is still relatively little understanding, and thus investment in the techniques. This is not new, it...
From Putting People First
Book: Speculative Everything
Speculative Everything Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming By Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby MIT Press Jan 2014, 200 pages [Amazon link] Today designers often focus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Personal History of Blogging
According to the Wikipedia, Blogs were invented in 1998. In 2001 I started an internal enterprise blog that was the most read in our global company. It connected...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tagging Forward
This blog started in 2003, replacing an older internal blog. Starting last year I started to tag items in this blog. All new items are now tagged. I have also...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where is the Power of the Crowd?
A good thought in Innovation Excellence: " ... Crowdsourcing may have also benefited from the recent recession with firms finding an inexpensive army of recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free BI Apps
In an interesting play, Microstrategy has introduced free BI Apps. A not unsurprising direction to make basic BI capabilities generally available. Although I...
From Schneier on Security
US Government Monitoring Public Internet in Real Time
Here's a demonstration of the US government's capabilities to monitor the public Internet. Former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden was on the Acela train between...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Maps into 3D Spaces
From a recent gaming competition. The use of historical maps that are then mapped into a 3D gaming style world. Watch the linked-to video. Will this ultimately...
From The Eponymous Pickle