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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 6 May 2013
About five weeks left to my school year. I’m behind in grading. I’m behind in lesson planning. This means less time on the Internet for the next week or so. Somehow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IX Research
Announcing the innovation research and delivery arm of Innovation Excellence: IX Research. Did not know it was coming, but who tells me anything? Research for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Changing the World
Only a few days ago we were looking at the first Web page, developed twenty years ago. Now another anniversary, of Linkedin, only ten years ago. How has this...
From Apophenia
How would you define work in a networked world?
(This post was originally written for LinkedIn. Go to the LinkedIn version to engage in the conversation.) I’ve been scratching my head trying to think about how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Car Gathers Massive Data
In Kurzweil: Saying that the Google self-driving car gathers 1 GB data per second. Quite a formidable amount. Talk about opening yourself to analytics data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategic Planning
Colleague Ed Burghard on strategic planning. A popular but often misunderstood topic. I like his views here about communities and dreams. Note this is firstSee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sankey Diagram Blog
A blog devoted to Sankey diagrams. Discovered in my quest for ways to deliver these. Many good examples. " ... With this blog I would like to share with you...
From My Biased Coin
Calling Out Stupidity
While I greatly enjoy working at Harvard, there are many painfully stupid things said and done by people here -- as I suppose is the case anywhere -- that either...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New: Visual Footprint Resources App
Ken Karakotsios was the author of the remarkable SimLife genetic playground game. He worked with us to build agent based simulation models that were used for years...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibo and Teradata and Real Time Event streams
TIBCO and Teradata Enable CIOs to Extract Actionable Insights From Real-Time Event Streams to Deliver the Two-Second AdvantageEvent Processing within the Teradata...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Business Sphere Wins Edison Silver Award
Quite a considerable accomplishment, built on work started years ago with innovation in Executive Information Systems. Much more in this blog about Business"...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Escape Artist
It's amazing how small a hole he can fit through. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
5th Annual State of the Mobile Net Conference on May 9, 2013
The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee brings you the 5th Annual State of the Mobile Net Conference on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Key members of Congress...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
U.S. Election Assistance Commission Roundtable on Voting Accessibility on May 9, 2013
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission will hold a roundtable on “Transforming Election Administration, Voting System Accessibility, and the Certification Process”...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
HHS: Technology Accessibility and Inclusion Conference on May 7, 2013
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) will hold its first “a11y@HHS: Technology Accessibility and Inclusion Conference,” on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at the...
From Schneier on Security
Another WWII Message Decoded
It's a really interesting code and story. (The first link has the most detailed information about the code and the cryptanalysis.)
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Visual Analytics
In SASCom: SAS visual analytics methods, seen through the problem of retailing. Video of their method. Would like to see more of this in the retail space.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Physical by Smartphone
Thinking of a smartphone as a sensor driven device. How might they ultimately be used as a means to give remote physicals? Still some issues, but the possibilities...
From Wild WebMink
Stockholm Syndrome Stopping Seeing How Linux Has Won?
Amazingly, the debate about when we will see the “year of the Linux desktop” is still active. Maybe it’s software Stockholm Syndrome making us all love our captor...
From Schneier on Security