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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
Multi National Supply Chains in China
In Knowledge@Wharton: (In English and Chinese). " ... Chinese Supply Chains Reach an ‘Inflection Point’ – and Multinationals Recast Strategies ... " Precisely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cities in a Complex World
From the Santa Fe Institute: I used to be our representative to SFI in the 90s and we got quite a few inspirations from them, and we provided them with problems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flexible Workplaces and the New Mobile World
In SMB Resource: This article was brought to my attention recently. It struck home because I have been working with companies that are increasingly specifying...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Open Commission Meeting on July 19
The FCC will discuss the IP Speech-to-Speech Relay program and a report on the implementation of Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts On Mobile Phone Development
For the second year the annual CSTA Conference has had a mobile phone development “throwdown.” In this session each participant has 15 minutes to create a mobile...
From Schneier on Security
Snowden's Dead Man's Switch
Edward Snowden has set up a dead man's switch. He's distributed encrypted copies of his document trove to various people, and has set up some sort of automatic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Predictive Analytics
This piece makes the point that I often do ... that all analytics, all business decisions, are predictive. The word 'predictive' includes the implication that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Autonomy
Had not heard the term before, but it relates to how strongly an IT department can act as a gatekeeper to software, in this new era of 'Bring Your Own' tools. ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An Hour of Code–Something for CS Ed Week 2013
At the CSTA Conference earlier this week Hadi Partovi from Code.Org announced some plans for this year’s Computer Science Education Week. Specifically providing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge @ Wharton for High School
I have always enjoyed the Wharton series of papers and videos. I just noticed that they had a series of posts especially designed for High School Students. ...
From My Biased Coin
MS Faculty Summit Day Two
Day Two of the summit started with a keynote shared between Peter Lee and Jeannette Wing, who now seem to be sharing heading up Microsoft research. (Rick Rashid...
From Schneier on Security
DHS Puts its Head in the Sand
On the subject of the recent Washington Post Snowden document, the DHS sent this e-mail out to at least some of its employees: From: xxxxx Sent: Thursday, July...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Library of Congress Legislative Data Challenge: Markup of U.S. Legislation in Akoma Ntoso
The Library of Congress invites the public to participate in its first Legislative Data Challenge. The winning solution will provide the most effective representation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing and Communication Foundations Program Solicitation
The NSF has recently issued a new program solicitation – Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF): Core Programs. According to the solicitation, “The Division...
From Schneier on Security
Tapping Undersea Cables
Good article on the longstanding practice of secretly tapping undersea cables. This is news right now because of a new Snowden document.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Use of Big Data
In Progressive Grocer: A good piece on how the CPG is using Big Data. " ... Retailers and consumer packaged goods companies that are applying big data analytics...
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Virtual Sandbox
Brought to my attention for a project that will require more than the usual amount of malicious software security. A virtual sandbox called Sandboxie that prevents...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competing Rapidly With Web Intelligence
Last month I gave a talk to a large company that is actively looking for new ways to compete. They have long been seen as a lower cost, but less innovative service...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of the Smartwatch
In GigaOM: A not unexpected development. 2014 seems to be the year for broad delivery. How will this influence the more personal uses of the smartphone? Will...
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