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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 Putting People First
Reaching those beyond Big Data
Opening up the Stories to Action edition of Ethnography Matters is Panthea Lee’s @panthealee moving story about a human trafficking outreach campaign that her company...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Webinar Tomorrow
Of interest: " ... web seminar Tableau is hosting tomorrow (3/6). The webinar starts at 2p eastern and will feature current Tableau customers speaking about how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
To Sell is Human
FromWharton: Excellent interview and video with Daniel Pink, a favorite author of mine. He was recently a guest lecturer at my Alma Mater. About his new book...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA's Ragtime Surveillance Program and the Need for Leaks
A new book reveals details about the NSA's Ragtime surveillance program: A book published earlier this month, "Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenges of Mobile Business Intelligence
A topic I am currently exploring. Scale of display, security, effectiveness of interaction are among the concerns. And software that can properly deal with that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Advertising
Measurement of outcomes is always interesting to me, so this led to the announcement below:The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI) and the SEI Center's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Airwriting
In Popsci: Understanding gestural generation of text. Airwriting.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cautions About Big Data
In TDWI: Three things that matter with Big Data. These cautions apply to all data based projects and thus should always be considered and addressed. I would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Credit Card Usage
In Supermarket News: A snippet of information about online credit usage. " ... Many Wal-Mart Stores shoppers who purchase online and opt to pay with cash at...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM/IEEE-CS CS2013 Ironman-v1.0 draft released
Those of you interested in undergraduate computer science education will be interested in the latest draft of the ACM/IEEE-CS CS 2013 curriculum recommendations...
From Schneier on Security
Al Qaeda Document on Avoiding Drone Strikes
Interesting: 3 – Spreading the reflective pieces of glass on a car or on the roof of the building. 4 – Placing a group of skilled snipers to hunt the drone, especially...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Radio Gets Second Screen
In AdAge: Music ID App Soundhound will lead you to supporting screen for music playing nearby, Will be interesting to see how well the combination of media...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ahold Boosts Online
In Food Business News, another major retailer pushes online. " ... Ahold USA, which reports that sales increased 3% in fiscal 2012, to $25.8 billion, says it will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation in Consumer Goods Companies
In CGT: What consumer goods companies are doing for innovation: " ... What do Nestlé, Campbell Soup Company and General Mills all have in common? They all beat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM In-Store Image Recognition App
In PopAI: IBM Research steering shoppers in the store and combatting showrooming. In the early days of our retail innovation center we worked with IBM image recognition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Pushes Internet of Everything
Cisco putting value on the Internet of everything. Imagine everything is tagged and communicating on the net. And smart too.
From Schneier on Security
Marketing at the RSA Conference
Marcus Ranum has an interesting screed on "booth babes" in the RSA Conference exhibition hall: I'm not making a moral argument about sexism in our industry orsame...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Causes of Innovation Failure
In Innovation Excellence: Some fairly obvious, but worth reviewing to understand the process.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Grant to Carnegie Proves Seriousness of Cyber-Security Efforts
President Barack Obama, during his State of the Union address, discussed education and the revolution of industry, bringing it back to America. President Obama...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog