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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Greece Proposing Giant Step Backward
Anyone who has followed the international news for the last couple of years has likely heard of the ongoing economic crisis in Greece. Only now, however, are we...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Designing an Intro to CS for Non-Majors: Starting With the Objectives
I have been working on my course design for my introductory computer science class for non-majors. It is taught in Processing and covers all the basics of programming...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Software Partnership Meeting on October 17
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will hold a Software Partnership Meeting on October 17, 2013, at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law in Berkeley, California...
From Schneier on Security
Protecting Against Leakers
Ever since Edward Snowden walked out of a National Security Agency facility in May with electronic copies of thousands of classified documents, the finger-pointing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailing, Brands and Consumer Experience
In the coming weeks I will be passing along some of the excellent work by correspondent Phil Hendrix. Here is a set of slides on Retailing, Brands and the Consumer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BI Falling Short
In the Forrester Blog: On alternate points of view, and ultimately adaptive intelligence. Intelligence, must almost by definition, be adaptive to new contexts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gaze Tracking with Glass
Google patent that looks at this. Is gaze tracking here the same as eye tracking? " .... As proposed by Google, the system would track the eye movements of users...
From Computational Complexity
What are Galois Games?
How are math concepts named? After the people who was involved with it. Examples: The Cook-Levin Theorem, Goldbach Conjecture, Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse games, Banach...
From Schneier on Security
"The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act"
Orin Kerr envisions what the ECPA should look like today: Abstract: In 1986, Congress enacted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to regulate government...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 August 2013
School started for me last week. I showed off some sample Kinect apps to most of my classes. For some it was to talk about human computer interaction. For others...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google as Dictionary
Further convenience for those that use Google for search: " ... From now on, Google's word search results will include synonyms, sample sentences, and some description...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unified Environments for Big Data Analytics
A good piece by correspondent Bill Franks, whose book on the topic I previously reviewed. It addresses some problems I am addressing in a project design now"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pentagon as Silicon Value Incubator
In the NYT: Work by DARPA like the Darpanet and related activities have been happening for a long time. Part of my graduate education was funded by DOD scholarships...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Account Deletion
In Techcrunch, A service that allows you to delete yourself from many common online services. There need to be more ways to clean up your online presence. A...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Mobile First View of Data Vizualization
A Bloomberg Video: One of the founders of Roambi talk this strategy. I tried it on the iPhone early on and was impressed what could be done. I like in particular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uptech II Announces Second Round
I am a big supporter of local startups and accelerators. Have have been involved directly in three local startups and advised several others. I see thatUptech...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decisions, Data and Predictive Models: Conversations
Letting Data be Your Compass: by Rob F. Walker. Nicely thought out piece on data, decisions and predictive models. Using the word prediction brings your models...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's CoverGirl and Print Augmentation
Nice to see this happening. Especially taking this beyond the now dated approach of QR Codes. Note the mention of Blippar technology. Which they say is:" ......
From The Eponymous Pickle
Breakthrough 3D Scanner
In CIO Today: " ... The MakerBot Digitizer consists of a turntable with two lasers and a camera that can scan objects up to 8 inches in size. MakerBot says its...
From The Eponymous Pickle