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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
Telling a Story with Data
Quite useful view of this interaction. Data analysis is ultimately about story telling, creating drama and then leading to decision value. Plus modifying the "...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Got What it Takes to Be a Technical Co-founder? Here's an Opportunity for You!
Two recent Y Combinator graduates contacted me recently in an effort to recruit a female technical co-founder for their startup. Although any awesome engineers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An Embarrassment of Riches
It seems like hardly a week goes by without hearing of some new development tool, web site or online training course for the teaching of computer science to beginners...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Can We Prove Better Independence Theorems?
An approach to independence with more complexity dependence Florian Pelupessy recently defended his PhD thesis at the University of Ghent in Belgium. In joint work...
From Schneier on Security
More Plant Security Countermeasures
I've talked about plant security systems, both here and in Beyond Fear. Specifically, I've talked about tobacco plants that call air strikes against insects...
From Wild WebMink
It Would Be Funny If It Weren’t True
Professor Elemental builds a Great Machine for Catching Villains
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Good is Facial Recognition?
Had followed the technology for some time. Especially how it had been used in casino applications, to apparently great success. But under controlled conditions...
From Putting People First
Plant Wars player patterns: visualization as scaffolding for ethnographic insight
The latest contribution to Ethnomining, the April 2013 Ethnographymatters edition on combining qualitative and quantitative data, edited by Nicolas Nova, is by...
From Putting People First
How will Big Data change design research?
Dave McColgin of Artefact writes about the relationship of design research to the ultimate outcome-focused research tool: Big Data. “Big Data [...] provides us...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cincinnati Zoo is a MidMarket Engine
In an interesting development our local Cincinnati Zoo has been declared IBM midmarket engine of the week. I have been there many times, its a haven for things...
From Schneier on Security
The Police Now Like Amateur Photography
PhotographyIsNotACrime.com points out the obvious: after years of warning us that photography is suspicious, the police were happy to accept all of those amateur...
From Wild WebMink
Free Software Needs Support
Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: This open letter from the director of Bytemark Hosting is a call for other hosting companies to help financially support...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Share your software early: the Reinhart-Rogoff case
I like stories where prestigious professors screw up spectacularly. It reminds us that everybody gets it wrong some of the time. The Reinhart-Rogoff story is one...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics and the Organization
This article states it once again. The analytics, and all analytics is predictive, must be permanently connected to important decision process. That implies that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass in the Future
In CompterWorld. An outline of the future of the head mounted display and some of the explorations being done today. I have reviewed just a few examples, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality for Real Estate
Walter Riker sends this along. Augemented reality as a link of real spaces with information. As an App for ease of installation and use. Mostly used for retail...
From Schneier on Security
Securing Members of Congress from Transparency
I commented in this article on the repeal of the transparency provisions of the STOCK Act: Passed in 2012 after a 60 Minutes report on insider trading practices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization and Big Data
Good piece by SAS outlining the value of visualizing data. As the article suggests, the mere act of showing data and allowing the interactive manipulation of data...
From Putting People First
“CasaZera” opens, with Experientia smart meter design (incl. slideshow)
In a decommissioned industrial zone in Turin, a single bright yellow apartment stands out in the shell of an old factory. This is “CasaZera”, a sustainable living...
From Putting People First