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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
Mobile mastery
Lauren Pope of Nokia writes that there are three things to think about if you want your devices and your brain to sing in unison: mindfulness, attention and metacognition...
From Putting People First
Simon Roberts (EPIC chair) reflects on Big Data, business and ethnography
Simon Roberts, the highly engaging, smart and easily approachable chair of the EPIC conference last week, was so absorbed with all the logistics that he didn’t...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Sensing Real Time Demand
Press release. Have not examined this yet, but it is of interest. SAP was looking at this forecasting direction over a decade ago. The question always arises...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Customer Segmentation
And the further development of customer segmenation. " ... Customer Segmentation Moves into the Fast Lane ... It is a common marketing dilemma: Companies know...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytic Evolution of R
Have had a number of talks with industry leader about R and its potential. At least they have heard of it now, but are still nervous about how it fits into their...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Alessandro Acquisti speaking at next Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour
In 2011, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created the Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour (WATCH), a series of thought-provoking talks by innovative...
From Schneier on Security
Good Summary of Potential NSA Involvement in a NIST RNG Standard
Kim Zetter has written the definitive story -- at least so far -- of the possible backdoor in the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator that's part of the NIST SP800...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Verizon App Challenge - for middle and high school students
This was posted to the AP Computer Science mailing list. I thought it was worth posting here for people not on that list. Looks interesting. Introducing the Second...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Sometimes You Have to Slow Down
I was helping a student today and realized that he’d been “lost” for a while. I was going pretty quickly and everyone seemed to be keeping up just fine. Not this...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Library of Congress Announces New Mobile App for Braille and Audio Books
The Library of Congress announced today that its Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) system is going mobile with an app for Apple devices now available for...
From Computational Complexity
Crystal Math- What NUMB3RS and BREAKING BAD both get wrong
The TV show Numb3rs had as a premise that a GENIUS mathematician could help solve crimes. Is this true? I rather doubt you need a GENIUS- though of course some...
From Apophenia
eyes on the street or creepy surveillance?
This summer, with NSA scandal after NSA scandal, the public has (thankfully) started to wake up to issues of privacy, surveillance, and monitoring. We are living...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Purple Voice is Going Green
As I sit down to work on the November 2013 issue of the Voice newsletter, it occurs to me what a significant transformation this issue represents. The CSTA Voice...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Career Paths Shaped by Computing Innovations Fellowship
Last month, Google announced the recipients of its Summer 2013 Research Awards, and two former Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) were among the winners:...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Europe and MOOC
European universities start to embrace online teaching and MOOC. " ... Several MOOC platforms have launched this year in Europe, and a consortium of open universities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
App for Oral Health
Procter & Gamble launches an app with Oral-B that promotes oral health. A novel use of the iPhone as sensor through its mic. Available on the iPhone store now...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Provides Input On Next Version Of Open Government National Action Plan
As part of the Obama Administration’s Open Government Initiative, it released a National Action Plan in September 2011. Based in part on its progress on the first...
From Putting People First
When does quantity become quality? How to navigate big data
While “Big Data” is causing excitement in the IT and business sector, the practice and concept of data analysis is not unfamiliar to those coming from a UX research...
From Schneier on Security
Apple's iPhone Fingerprint Reader Successfully Hacked
Nice hack from the Chaos Computer Club: The method follows the steps outlined in this how-to with materials that can be found in almost every household: First,...
From The Eponymous Pickle