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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
Innovation at the Tipping Point
Poses an interesting question: " ... We all know innovation is important because it is the lifeblood of any business. But compare upcoming digital era to previous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reputation Risks from Technology
In CIO Insight: A low information slide infomercial accounts the means by which corporate reputation can be endangered from new technologies. Though the information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decline of the Wikipedia
We followed Wikipedia from the beginning. We attempted to use the Wiki model to store and retrieve corporate knowledge internally. Learning much about what worked...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dynamic Biophotonics in Squid
Female squid exhibit sexually dimorphic tunable leucophores and iridocytes. Just so you know. Here's the story in more accessible language. As usual, you can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: From Mess to Analytical Models
A few seats left:TIBCO Spotfire and the Data Analytics Foundation personally invite you to the Analytics Value Proposition Series – From Mess, to Models, to Insight ...
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FTC to Investigate the Internet of Things
In GigaOM: It should be regulated. But I have my doubts that governments will do a good job. Think too of the implication of governments knowing the location,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Teaching Machines to Learn
In Wired: It is interesting how companies are deciding to play in the machine learning Artificial Intelligence space. On cursory examination Facebook seems to...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
A Nine Minute Revolution
Last year I showed my programming students the nine minute version of the video Code.org created and we talked about what they thought and if anything surprised...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Twitter Recommendations for CS Educators
Some time ago I wrote a post on top CS education people to follow on Twitter. It was very objective as I took the people on my CS Educator Twitter list and ranked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Mobile Apps from Linkedin
Linkedin has done some creative things that leverage their considerable database. Here are some new Apps. Back to credibility again. And emphasizing mobile. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Butterflies for IT Management
Another old idea come around again. Can you use it for IT management? Perhaps in a theoretical sense, but I am skeptical about its predictive power. " .....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
We need more than spam filters: we need bona fide assistants!
I don’t know how other professionals behave, but if you email a researcher at 11pm or even 2am, there is a good chance he will get back to you within two minutes...
From Schneier on Security
Book Review: Cyber War Will Not Take Place
Thomas Rid, Cyber War Will Not Take Place, Oxford University Press, 2013. Cyber war is possibly the most dangerous buzzword of the Internet era. The fear-inducing...
From Schneier on Security
Cognitive Biases About Violence as a Negotiating Tactic
Interesting paper: Max Abrahms, "The Credibility Paradox: Violence as a Double-Edged Sword in International Politics," International Studies Quarterly, 2013: ...
From Putting People First
Sustainable living and behavioral change
Below a selection of pieces from The Guardian’s sustainable living hub: The power of behavioural design: looking beyond nudging Christoph Burmester – 10 September...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Explored and Vindicated
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 The Eponymous Pickle
Windows 8.1 Installed by an Expert
My long time colleague Walter Riker waxes technical about his installation of Windows 8.1 He is also an expert on Office 365 (He teaches it for companies). and...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Request That We Passed On
Peto de la Simons Instituto Alistair Sinclair is a “British computer scientist and computational theorist”—to quote our friends at Wikipedia. I know him more as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
University of Arkansas RFID Center
From the RFID Journal: A now dated piece, but reminded me of work we did with RFID technology and the University of Arkansas back in 2003. And another excellent...
From The Eponymous Pickle