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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
Digital Augmented Telescopes: Tellscopes
In Fast Company: A telescope called a Tellscope. A terrestial rather than a celestial scope, with elements of augmented reality. The article discusses the hardware...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Open Internet Advisory Committee Meeting on July 9
The FCC’s Open Internet Advisory Committee will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, July 9, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT, to discuss issues related to its four working groups...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Garmin Heads up Display
Garmin has introduced a Heads up display interface (HUD) , to be placed on a car windshield, to be made available later this year. " ... The HUD is a small box...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast integer compression in Java
Last year, we published a fast C++ library to quickly compress and decompress arrays of integers. Out of habit, I ported it to Java and published it under the name...
From Schneier on Security
Big Data Surveillance Results in Bad Policy
Evgeny Morozov makes a point about surveillance and big data: it just looks for useful correlations without worrying about causes, and leads people to implement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Smartphone Metadata Gathering
Another claim for a vendor gathering metadata from Smartphones, here from Motorola. Metadata, or 'data about data', has been trivialized as a source of personal...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Reflections on EdTech Conferences
This was the second year in a row that I didn’t attend ISTE. I really miss it but events conspired against me. But I’ve been reading a lot from people who did go...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 8
July 9 Workshop: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will hold a public workshop on surveillance programs. Technology experts will be part of at least...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NumberSense Reviewed
I have been looking for books that explain the difference of what I call analytics, in my long time consulting practice and the newly hyped arena of Big Data. ...
From Computational Complexity
AltaVista versus Google
Today Yahoo is closing AltaVista, the best search engine before Google. The news caught me by surprise, AltaVista still existed? A number of commentators attribute...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Herman Miller's Living Office
We worked with Herman Miller in the area of innovative office design. This is a short article on their concept of the living office. Although I have not been...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Concepts and Techniques
Bought some time ago, but finally exercised in some detail: Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber. There are later editions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Label Brands Hold Ground
An indication that private label brands are holding their own after a slow recovery. " ... While private labels have existed for some time, the recession proved...
From Putting People First
Saskia Sassen and Scott McCloud keynote speakers at Interaction14
Interaction 14 just announced its first keynote speakers: Saskia Sassen is someone to look forward to. A sociology professor at Columbia University, she is known...
From Schneier on Security
Protecting E-Mail from Eavesdropping
In the wake of the Snowden NSA documents, reporters have been asking me whether encryption can solve the problem. Leaving aside the fact that much of what theadvice...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 July 2013
I don’t know about you but I am enjoying my summer. Keeping very busy though. Really spending some quality time with TouchDevelop. Also working on my presentations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Query-less search
An examination of query-less, or parameter-less search in Google Operating System. And the mention of a Google patent in the space. And its ultimate integration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualization Books: Incomplete
The Economist looks at a number of information and data visualization books. What they look at is good, but is very incomplete. Largely based on infographics,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowds vs Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: It should be remembered that innovation is often be an act of going against the crowd. Creative people do go against the crowd" ... At...
From Putting People First