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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 Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 August 2013
Summer ends for me tomorrow as my school starts with a professional development day for teachers. First full day with students is Friday. I’ve done some preparation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enhanced Drivers Licenses for Data Mining
Next week California legislators are voting on an enhanced drivers license or EDL. More here. Such a license contains a RFID tag that points to a personal identification...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Threat of Medical Device Hacking
In Bloomberg: A very scary possibility. Though the article suggests that sufficient precautions are being taken for now. But the potential exists as new hacks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science of Social Blog
The official blog of Dr Michael Wu on the science of social:Insights into social customer behaviors, big data, superfans, gamification, influence, relationships...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Home Control Center
Smartphone as home control center. Ultimately linking purchasing decisions made room by room to online and in-store behavior?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting the Catalog
Have been exploring the latest 2014 physical IKEA catalog, with is an already large (320 page plus) slick paper catalog that broadly and artistically explores IKEA's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Preparing for Screenless Computing
In Quartz: " ... The spread of computing to every corner of our physical world doesn’t just mean a proliferation of screens large and small—it also means we’ll...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Counting Deaths
In the WSJ Blog: The consequence of what is commonly call a harvesting effect, in statistical models. Using the data, often reported in the news, of how many...
From Putting People First
What’s lost when everything is recorded
Who wouldn’t delight in hearing Lincoln at Gettysburg in the same way we can go back and witness President Obama on the campaign trail? But with so much data capture...
From Putting People First
Lessons from monks about designing the technologies of the future
Our technologies are designed to maximize shareholder profit, and if that means distracting, confusing or aggregating the end-user, then so be it. But another path...
From Putting People First
A manifesto to connect experience design with content thinking
Under the title “Content re-framing: A digital disruption survival kit“, Bas Evers and Peter Bogaards have launched a manifesto to connect experience design with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seth Godin on Choke Points
Seth Godin describes the choke point, a clever view of a real challenge: " .... Sooner or later, all big public media companies go in search of a choke point...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulation Training for Gen Y
In CLO Mag: The suggestion that simulation based training works better for generation Y, This can be described as game-based as well. Using interaction and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Smart Watch
I remain skeptical of the small format, but a Samsung Smart phone/watch is reportedly arriving in September.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink as Food Coloring
Alton Brown suggests it for ice cream. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
Wired Names "Schneier on Security" to Best Blog List
I made the list of Wired's best "Government and Security" blogs.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Picking N distinct numbers at random: how to do it fast?
To test my algorithms, I like to generate synthetic data. To do so, I often need to generate distinct randomly chosen numbers from a range of values. For example...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Making the Most of Your Messaging in 'Women in Computer Science' Outreach
If you've ever done outreach with girls to try to get them into computer science, you may have wondered what the best way to do it is. After all, we've been at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comment Policy Again
A reminder. Comments are moderated here. They must be in English. I will not post anonymous comments unless prearranged. I will not allow a comment with links...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP