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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Current Daylight saving time policies are insane
Daylight saving time (DST) is this insane practice whereas twice a year, clocks are moved forward or backward by an hour. It is still widespread throughout North...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 11
March 13 Hearing: The House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s role in cybersecurity of critical infrastructure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unified Workspace
Cisco presents the Unified Workspace. General but useful thoughts. " ... Trends such as mobility, virtualization, video, collaboration, knowledge management, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Release of Geodata
The Geodata from Wikimedia is being released. Thought this had been done before, very useful for mobile. " ... The WikiMedia Foundation has added a new extension...
From Schneier on Security
Is Software Security a Waste of Money?
I worry that comments about the value of software security made at the RSA Conference last week will be taken out of context. John Viega did not say that software...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 March 2013
It’s Women’s History Month and last week was International Women’s Day. Not surprisingly that there was a lot of talk about women in computer science in particular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New P&G Open Innovation Website
In its second decade of running their Connect & Develop approach, P&G has updated their approach and website. See it here. I have worked using it to connect to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blog Tags are Here
Starting now you can utilize blog tags here, also called labels. They are found at the bottom of each post. These tags classify the blog post with others that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recognizing Pattern with Math
Recognizing PatternsWith today’s powerful data analysis systems, users gather a ton of information—a breakdown of Wal-Mart Stores’ (WMT) sales in the U.S. or things...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experience in the Data
Apply Your Experience.Saffron Technology wants to put your data to work under a completely new approach to data analytics: Experience Management. The way we see...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Spies on E-mails
A strange offshoot of the Harvard cheating scandal -- a report in the Boston Globe that Harvard administrators decided it was OK to search through Resident Dean...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improved Check-in
Foursquare checkins become easier, which eases the whole problem of getting loyalty credit, and also makes the implementation of location based games more powerful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Personal Brand Will be Googled
Good thoughts in Mashable. It is revealing that some of hints here also use Google to improve your personal brand, regardless you are a regular user of their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Preview
Pointer to the advertising future via a video by James C Nelson. from 1967. I remember thinking about adaptive media not long after that, but it seemed the challenges...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IT Driving Employee Passion
Good IT is a magical thing that can drive employees to do new things. My reaction to the title here. Why else does everyone have a smartphone and/or a tablet,...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update Is Back!
After a long hiatus, the ACM Washington Update – a newsletter of computing policy activity published by the ACM Public Policy Office – is back. Yesterday we published...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Data Brokers Know About You
In Pro Publica A good overview of how personal data is currently being brokered. First time that I had seen this much information about the topic in one place....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Neuromarketing
Roger Dooley provides a number of examples of Coke neuromarketing. I had been sensing that there was a decrease in the use of these technologies to understand...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It’s not lazy – its efficient
Years ago I worked for a company that sold computers, software, terminals and many other things. A terminal salesperson worked out of the same office I did and...
From Schneier on Security