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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
Building the 21st Century Grocery Store?
Interesting, but too much 'California' in this article. Submit that there is is still no efficiency here, and cost will prevail. " ... The Good Eggs "farm-to-fridge"...
From Schneier on Security
Management Issues in Terrorist Organizations
Terrorist organizations have the same management problems as other organizations, and new ones besides: Terrorist leaders also face a stubborn human resources...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing and Augmented Reality
Have long been interested in the use of Augmented Reality for marketing, both in the store and in mobile. Still early in its use, but it is evolving quickly now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Big Data is Reshaping Marketing
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 How Big Data is Reshaping Marketing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting to the Reality of Behavior
In Research: (On Wisdom of Crowds and Theory of Group Behavior)Why research needs to go beyond the individual’s perspective to get closer to the reality of behaviour...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Federal CIO Council Announces Re-Organization
The Federal CIO Council is the primary cross-agency group for information technology management in the government. On Friday the Council announced a major reorganization...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Who is Teaching Computer Science in US High Schools?
How do you fit in amongst the roughly 800 teachers who shared what they teach, how they are supported by their schools, their background and what's important to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling and Screenwriting
I was recently introduced to a book: Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, by Blake Snyder. Which led me to some questions. Have recently...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Ideas Lab Workshop Applications Due August 19
The following is an article published in the August 2013 edition of Computing Research News. Ideas Lab Fostering Transformative Approaches to Teaching and Learning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Conference
Via Cacm: A data mining conference whose outcomes will be interesting. Have followed and attended the KDD for years. Will seek to report information that emerges...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Digital Client Management
A client brought this to my attention. Multiple screens in one for retail experiences. Aimed at decreasing advertising costs and better targeting marketing campaigns...
From Computational Complexity
Flash Gordon
We watched the movie Ted last week but this post isn't about that movie. The movie has several references to the 1980 movie Flash Gordon including an extended cameo...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA is Commandeering the Internet
It turns out that the NSA's domestic and world-wide surveillance apparatus is even more extensive than we thought. Bluntly: The government has commandeered the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Cait Sydney Pickens
One really can meet people online though sites like Twitter. That is how I met Cait Sydney Pickens. I look at everyone who follows me on Twitter and saw her name...
From Putting People First
By Us, For Us: The power of co-design and co-delivery
At the core of a People Powered Health approach is collective ownership of health and wellbeing. Professionals need to start from the position of not necessarily...
From Putting People First
Book: Lean UX
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Jeff Gothelf (Author) and Josh Seiden (Editor) O’Reilly Media February 2013 (Amazon link) “The Lean...
From Putting People First
Why a new Golden Age for UI design is around the corner
Cliff Kuang writes in Wired how designers are working on their most ambitious challenge yet: weaving the digital world into our everyday lives so seamlessly that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics on Location
In IEEE Computer Now: None of this seems very new. But there is certainly lots of new data to feed the methods. " ... Companies have long been using analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Becoming a Brand Specialist
Some interesting thoughts on specialization and the data required to manage them. How does this apply to other current hype areas, like Hadoop, Big Data or Predictive...
From Computer Science Teachers Association