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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
This Year's Grace Hopper Submissions
Tonight is the deadline for the 2013 edition of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing's Call for Participation. Although I wasn't sure I was going...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Robotics Roadmap Presentation to Congress March 20
On Wednesday, March 20, a new Robotics roadmap will be presented to the Congressional Caucus on Robotics. The presentation program will include: • Overview – Henrik...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter and Verix Partnership
More on the Procter - Verix partnership , from CEO magazine. Delivering easier to apply Business Intelligence: " ... After a year of intensive teamwork between...
From Computational Complexity
Goodbye Old Friends
We had two terrible losses this week. Not people but websites, Intrade and Google Reader. The corporate auditors for the real-money Irish prediction markets...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing the Internet
Flowing data describes an App that provides a 3D representation of the infrastructure of the Internet. No specific value, except the knowledge that we are riding...
From Schneier on Security
Stuxnet is Much Older than We Thought
Symantec has found evidence of Stuxnet variants from way back in 2005. That's much older than the 2009 creation date we originally thought it had. More here and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TouchDevelop–This is Cool!
I finally decided to get serious about learning TouchDevelop this week. I have sort of toyed with it from time to time and I’ve seen the development team do demos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standards in the CPG and Retail Industry
An interesting report via GS1 from CapGemini on the future of standards there. These are key issues to make these spaces more efficient. " ... Capgemini has released...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Reader Gone
Google reader RSS is scheduled to be gone in 70 days. I have used it since it first arrived. It is a simple way to do information feeds. Very popular from what...
From Writing
What my grandfather taught me about happiness
Boris K.1919-2013This is the eulogy I gave for my grandfather on March 14, 2013. He was 93 years old. I want to share with you something I learned from my grandfather...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Glass as Newton as Vision
A colleague sends along this view in Quartz, of Google Glass as something akin to the Apple Newton, visionary in direction, but something that will pave the way...
From Schneier on Security
On Secrecy
Interesting law paper: "The Implausibility of Secrecy," by Mark Fenster. Abstract: Government secrecy frequently fails. Despite the executive branch’s obsessive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheap Gene Machines
Simpler, cheaper gene analysis could revolutionize medicine. In IEEE Spectrum. " ... Soon, Rothberg says, everybody will be sequenced—probably as infants—and...
From Putting People First
Book: Present Shock – When Everything Happens Now
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff Current Hardcover March 2013, 216 pages [Amazon] Abstract This is the moment we’ve been waiting for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever's Dove is Mobile
In Mobile Marketer, how Unilever is using mobile and video to promote their Dove brand.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Promotions and Impulse Buys
In Progressive Grocer: Perhaps a non intuitive linkage? " ... Research published by the American Marketing Association shows that shoppers make more unplanned...
From Putting People First
UK Government Service Design Manual
The UK Government Service Design Manual provides a (draft) digital by default service standard, as well as guidance and tools for building world-class digital services...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Real Life Is …
One of my favorite sayings is that “real life is an open book test.” I don’t remember where or when I first heard it but it is something I repeat rather regularly...
From Schneier on Security