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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
New in Google Plus
Google's social network lets Google+ get smarter. In Technology Review. I have used it only sparingly for a few years, but I know many groups that are enthusiastic...
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Future Packaging
IDEO produces some interesting package designs of the future. " ... To a large extent, packaging mediates our experience with the world, probably more than any...
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Surprise in Innovation
Correspondent Michael Schrage in the HBR Blog. He talks reactive and proactive surprise. Ans how the difference can pay big dividends. With the example of DARPA...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Random Hacks a Great Success for Students
Great experience! Provided teamwork for all of us! It made us work super hard! Really Fun!” exclaimed Isabel, age 11. Fun and hard work are just the words teachers...
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According to Graph Search: 36 Hours in Portland, Oregon
Photo credits, clockwise from top left: The Portland Japanese Garden Facebook page; Powell's Books Facebook page; Ray's Ragtime Facebook page; LaurelThirst Public...
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Marketing, Advertising and Big Data
Big Data and Marketing: " ... Luminar, PubMatic and Lotame Solutions Inc. are living proof that marketing and advertising are two of the killer applications for...
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Thinking Business Process Modeling
A long time interest. Here, ten points to think out before starting. " ... Most organizations understand how business process management (BPM) can generate long...
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Marketers and Gaming
In Fast Company: What Marketers can learn from Gaming. An interesting take that should be developed further. " ... Now marketers are discovering the “power of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House “We the Geeks” Hangout on Grand Challenges
Tomorrow, May 16, at 2:00 p.m. EDT, watch the first ‘We the Geeks” Hangout on WhiteHouse.gov and on the White House Google+ page. On May 16th, the White House is...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
In Which I Am Tempted to Move to California
Blog posts have been sparse lately: I have been traveling. Last week I spent five days in Palo Alto, California. The visit was primarily for the Anita Borg Institute...
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Facebook Graph Search as a Journalistic Tool
Facebook is becoming an ever-powerful stalking tool. The social network now associates users with not just profiles stating some facts about their status and interests...
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Supply Shock
A concept I had not heard in quite a while. How does 'supply shock' spread through a system and influence costs and inventory and markets? Would like to see...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on Proposed US-EU Trade Agreement
The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council submitted its public comment to the U.S. Trade Representative outlining three important intellectual property principles for...
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Spicy Foods
An area we examined in the sensory realm. In particular as a branding experiment, the Tabasco brand mentioned took a very long time to extend its reach. Now...
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Feigenbaum Wins IEEE Pioneer Awrd
Edward Feigenbaum, known as the father of expert systems, Stanford Professor Emeritus, has been awarded the Computer Society Pioneer Award. We consulted with...
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Baxter Robot for Researchers
Open source software for a standard robot: " ... Rethink Robotics, the Boston startup founded by Rodney Brooks, doesn't want to be just a robot maker. The company...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Fulbright Israel Post-Doctoral Fellowships for American Researchers in All Disciplines
The United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF), the Fulbright commission for Israel, offers 8 fellowships to American post-doctoral researchers in support...
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StudioNeuro
Brought late to my attention StudioNeuro, brought to my attention by A K Pradeep of Neurofocus/Nielsen. A number of the advisors are known to me. Appears to...
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SAP Lumira Cloud
A useful view of SAP Lumira Cloud, formerly SAP Visual Intelligence. I had taken a superficial look at this a few months ago. The change of the name from something...
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