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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 Putting People First
How is ‘experience’ valued in the sharing economy?
How do you buy or sell something so abstract as an “experience”? And what is it worth? That’s not an idle question for companies in the sharing economy. The experience...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Rough Problems
Some problems on which we cannot even get in the zone Rough on Ruff source Lindy Ruff was recently named coach of the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tagtal Touchscreen Copying Stylus
Happened on a capability on the IdeaConnection site. Tagtal is a stylus that lets you copy from one touch surface to another, " ... "digital dropper", isA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Diapers
In the NYT: A Digital Diaper that tracks infants health. Reminds me of the 'smart toilet' idea pioneered in Japan. Had not heard this specifically talked about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Mobile Ad Strategies
In Venturebeat:" ... Engaging mobile brand fans through social channels such as Instagram or by offering mobile games are some of the strategies brands are using...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA's Project SHAMROCK
Nice history of Project SHAMROCK, the NSA's illegal domestic surveillance program from the 1970s. It targeted telegrams.
From The Eponymous Pickle
China's Generation 2 Consumer
In McKinsey: The rise of the generation 2 consumer in China. We actively built agent based simulation models of the Chinese consumer. These findings could be...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Should computer scientists run experiments?
Jeffrey Ullman, a famous computer science professor, published an essay pushing back about the need to run experiments in computer science. Apparently, some conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
July/August 2013 Analytics Magazine
Always interesting Analytics magazine is worth following, here are the key articles, but there is much more there:Executive Edge: What Makes a Good Data Scientist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hurdles to Analytics
Hurdles in pursuit of analytics. Mostly obvious, but good to review." .. Organizations are enticed with the potential benefits offered by data analytics, but many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
5th Screen and McCormick
I had mentioned a company we worked with in our innovation centers: 5th Screen. Had reason to look at some of the work they have done with McCormick spices ina...
From Schneier on Security
Musing on Secret Languages
This is really interesting. It starts by talking about a "cant" dictionary of 16th-century thieves' argot, and ends up talking about secret languages in general...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Doug Bergman
Today’s interview is with Doug Bergman from Charleston SC. I first met Doug through the Microsoft Partners in Learning program. Listening to him has been influential...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching IT Skills Online
Training online has been done for a long time, but now the emergence of MOOC (Massive, Open, Online Courses) has made it easier yet to deliver training with more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Organ Donor Compensation
MJ Perry examines the case of the US, where organ donor compensation is illegal, and Australia, where it is not. For the case of human kidneys. The difference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New DropBox
A future view of the intentions of Dropbox. " ... Dropbox wants to be your always-on hard drive, whether you’re using an iPad, an Android phone, or a PC. And....
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Improving Computer Science and Programming Education for Women Improves It for Everyone
We know that computing fields are gender imbalanced. While 57% of all undergraduate degrees in the United States were earned by women in 2009, women made up only...
From Schneier on Security
The Effectiveness of Privacy Audits
This study concludes that there is a benefit to forcing companies to undergo privacy audits: "The results show that there are empirical regularities consistent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Robotics Challenge Results
In IEEE Spectrum: Very good piece on the challenge, its essential components and the results announced today. This is interesting too because it describes elemental...
From Schneier on Security