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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
Reviving Artificial Intelligence at MIT
More on MIT's new center. Is AI and its application to business back?" ... A new interdisciplinary research center at MIT, funded by the National Science Foundation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Numbers into Knowledge
Long time collaborator and colleague Jeff Camm at the University of Cincinnati is featured in this recent Lindner College of Business article. I have been on the...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
A Preview of My GHC13 Gram's House Poster
It's not finalized, but here's a preview of the poster I made about Gram's House, a research project I started a few years ago, for the Grace Hopper Celebration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in 3D Printing
In Techdirt: A good overview of printing and scanning advances to support remote manufacture. Links to a number of vendors and projects underway of interest.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Analytics Delivered
Gib Bassett passes along an article on a purveyor of social media analytics: Infinite Analytics. " ... a cloud-based big data startup that uses the social graph...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Strategy and Hype
Forrester on Big Data Strategy. A useful cautionary view on the floods of hype. " ... Don't Have A Big Data Strategy Yet? Good. ... Big data noise has reached...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saving Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble continues a spiral downwards, apparently unable to link its Nooks and coffee shops to a profitable experience. Books as experience goods and the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measurement as a Path to Success
A favorite topic of mine. Improving measurement can lead to better results, even if you don't apply advanced analytics to the measurements. Because measurement...
From Putting People First
Online time can hobble brain’s important work
While you are browsing online, you could be squandering memories — or losing important information, according to Swedish research. Contrary to common wisdom, an...
From Putting People First
Financial Times on EPIC conference
This week, business anthropologists from all over the world descended on the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference at London’s Royal Institution, the historic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation and Science Fiction
In the Atlantic: Inventors need to read more science fiction... " ... MIT researchers Dan Novy and Sophia Brueckner argue that the mind-bending worlds of authors...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How Bacteria Terraform a Squid
Fascinating: The bacterium Vibrio fischeri is a squid terraformer. Although it can live independently in seawater, it also colonises the body of the adorable Hawaiian...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Proposals due October 10 and December 10
The goal of the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program, which is a joint funding announcement between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Information Dashboard Design
Newly arrived to support a project: Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring by Stephen Few. I will review in the future. Their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Technology Strategy Template
Well thought out template for business technology strategy from Forrester Blogs. " .... What is it that almost every organization believes it needs, many organizations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ARD2 Augmented Reality
Recently brought to my attention this augmented reality delivery company: AR23D For advertising, sales and entertainment implementations. With development offices...
From Schneier on Security
Legally Justifying NSA Surveillance of Americans
Kit Walsh has an interesting blog post where he looks at how existing law can be used to justify the surveillance of Americans. Just to challenge ourselves, we'll...
From The Eponymous Pickle
National Identity By Smartphone
The curious observation that national identity varies by phone type. And the Asymco article and supporting data and visualizations.
From Schneier on Security
Google Knows Every Wi-Fi Password in the World
This article points out that as people are logging into Wi-Fi networks from their Android phones, and backing up those passwords along with everything else into...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson