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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
New Toy–Raspberry Pi
It is hard to resist a new technology toy. I’ve been hearing about the Raspberry Pi computer for some time now. A couple of weeks ago I talked to a teacher friend ...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Motherhood, Tech, and Leaning In With Marissa Mayer
Recently, I happened to start looking at some of the stories featured on the new Lean In website and came across Marissa Mayer's. For all the interest and controversy...
From Schneier on Security
Pinging the Entire Internet
Turns out there's a lot of vulnerable systems out there: Many of the two terabytes (2,000 gigabytes) worth of replies Moore received from 310 million IPs indicated...
From Putting People First
Unpaid internships are harming the design industry
Mark Busse calls on the design industry to set a higher standard (and as a company which has always paid its interns, we endorse this call): ” Employers, especially...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data at The Speed of Business
I was just informed of this online broadcast, done twice today, 4/30. I plan to attend and tweet.Follow with hashtags #bigdatamgmt and #ibmsmb .... " ... Today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flattening of Design
A good NYT article which explains this concept which I had heard of, but not understood. How a number of companies are beginning to use it: " ... “Every so often...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
New GAO Report on Voting Accessibility
Almost all polling places had an accessible voting system during the 2008 elections, according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
From Geeking with Greg
More quick links
Again, it has been too long, but here you go, what has caught my attention lately: "Employees who ate at cafeteria tables designed for 12 were more productive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Demand Marketing
McKinsey and on-Demand Marketing. A new term to me. " ... Digital marketing is about to enter more challenging territory. Building on the vast increase in consumer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Owning Social Media in the Enterprise and Beyond
Who owns an employee social media account? In an excellent blog post Debbie Laskey brings up an excellent question that leads me to a number of related questions...
From Schneier on Security
More Links on the Boston Terrorist Attacks
Max Abrahms has two sensible essays. Probably the ultimate in security theater: Williams-Sonoma stops selling pressure cookers "out of respect." They say it's...
From Putting People First
Documentary examines the end of print books
People have used books as a reliable tool to transmit and preserve information, ideas, and stories for hundreds of years. E-books have enjoyed wide use for only...
From Putting People First
Your body does not want to be an interface
Have you heard that Google Glass will let you snap photos by winking? John Pavlus of the MIT Technology Review writes why that’s still going to feel weird. “The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critical Thinking about Nanotechnology
A proposal for a defined structure about the technology, to promote critical thinking. When we examined how it would be useful in product development and R&D,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Look Inside: Massive Open Online Courses
The following is a guest post by Justin Herbert, a professional educator and coach who works at Montreat College in Montreat, NC. One of the most popular topics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robert Scoble Reviews Glass
He says it will come down to price, at least initially. Not too much about the social implications, just the dazzle of being connected even more than we are now...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 April 2013
Last week was school vacation week and I was away with less than ideal Internet. I’m still not sure if that is better or worse than no Internet at all. In any@...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Best Interface is No Interface
Via Jeff Dyck. He sends along a note from SXSW by Golden Krishna. The video of the 'Best Interface is no Interface' is here. A good overall philosophy. Also ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Interface is no Interface
Via Jeff Dyck. He sends along a note from SXSW by Golden Krishna. The video of the 'Best Interface is no Interface' is here. A good overall philosophy. Also...
From My Biased Coin