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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
Putting Your Data in the Vault
I am not in particular endorsing this company, EVault, but was struck by their posing the question of how companies should store and protect their 'Big Data'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Hype Busting in Advertising
In Adage: In the Advertising Age meeting, a number of sessions on how various advertising technologies link to hype cycles. Hype or not? Including some that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2013 Blog Reader Survey
It’s been a while since I tried to collect any data about who reads my blog and why. When someone pointed out to me that Skydrive has the ability to create webquick...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Digital Societies and Social Technologies Summer Institute Helps to Bridge Common Interests Among Different Research Communities
The following entry is a special contribution to this blog from John L. King, the W.W. Bishop Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sales and Marketing Misalignment
In E-Commerce Times: Something I have seen first hand , the solutions shown are simplistic, but also powerful. " ... For CRM data to be useful, it needs context...
From Schneier on Security
3D-Printed Robot to Break Android PINs
Neat project. The reason it works is that the Android system doesn't start putting in very long delays between PIN attempts after a whole bunch of unsuccessful...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hammers and Nails and Writing Complicated Code
The ability of students to find complex solutions to simple problems is a constant source of amusement and amazement. I’m probably neither the first or last teacher...
From Putting People First
An ethnography of interaction design practice (PhD dissertation)
Delivering Design: Performance and Materiality in Professional Interaction Design is the title of the PhD dissertation Sarah Goodman defended last year to obtain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Tutorials for Knowledge Capture
From Biggerplate, a set of tutorials on mind mapping. Also related, from the IHMC site: Concept Maps, their theory and how to create them. Examining for use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Review: Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics
Review: Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics: Business Problems and Solutions with R by Thomas W. Miller This book does an excellent job of defining prediction...
From Computational Complexity
Dealing with Death
Mary Jean Harrold, a professor of software engineering at Georgia Tech, passed away last week. Mary Jean was 67 and still quite active before the cancer struck....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Link Rot and Permanent Hyperlinks
We juggled with link rot since the earliest days of the Internet. As we were trying to build from existing Internet content. You can point to anything, but that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Training from IBM and Universities
Educational Collaboration: " ... IBM is hoping to help create the next generation of "big data" specialists through a series of partnerships with universitiesNine...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Round Up of Student Technology Competitions 2013
I’ve written about a number of technology competitions and award programs for students in the last month or so. I thought that a single post on them might be useful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
After the Design of Everyday Things
We interacted with designer Don Norman a few times, author of the ground breaking Design of Everyday Things. This new interview in GigaOM relates well what he...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baby Name Voyager Visualization Again
Some time ago, for a problem we were working on for visualizing initiative data, we looked at the work of Martin Wattenberg. Probably most famous is his Baby Name...
From Schneier on Security
Paradoxes of Big Data
Interesting paper: "Three Paradoxes of Big Data," by Neil M. Richards and Jonathan H. King, Stanford Law Review Online, 2013. Abstract: Big data is all the rage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Small Data in Big Data
In Computing Now: Video. Small Data in Big Data — Ayse Bener, Ryerson University. From data to knowledge, and leveraging the knowledge to decision. " ... As...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moose Mobility for CPG Sales Solutions
Spoke today with MooseMobility. An acronym forMobile Out-of-Stock Ordering Sales Electronic Application. " ... Enabling Solutions for your Mobile Sales Force...
From The Eponymous Pickle