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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 My Biased Coin
Rankings Don't Matter (But)
Back when I started at Harvard, people would literally say things to me like, "I didn't know Harvard had computer science." Now I could just point such people here...
From Schneier on Security
Getting Security Incentives Right
One of the problems with motivating proper security behavior within an organization is that the incentives are all wrong. It doesn't matter how much management...
From Putting People First
John Maeda on our life in 2020
In 2020 we might just regain some of the humanity that was lost in 2010, argues John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design. “The software industry...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 March 2013
Last week was school vacation week. Like a lot of teachers I spent the week catching up on things around the house. For me that meant spending a coup[le of days...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ZoomData
Real time data visualization on the iPad: Press release. " ... Zoomdata makes it easy for data administrators to quickly connect its stream-processing engine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SlateUp: A New Knowledge Community
Just brought to my attention: SlateUp. More to follow. Membership now by invitation to .edu accounts. Check out the site for more information. SponsoredSlateUp...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards an Augmediated Life
The new ideas that have been pushed forward for Google Glass look very similar to ideas that have presented for Augmented Reality (AR), while the AR approachesmore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teach Robots Lateral Thinking
From MIT News: An area we examined. How do you teach a help mate robot ways to get around their physical limitations? A floor sweeping robot can trade timewith...
From Wild WebMink
Not Risk But Trust
Amanda Palmer has stumbled on trust as the answer to the music industry's problems.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Cloud Intrusion
An example of a cloud security issue with the popular package Evernote, which I have used for some time. Good example which led me to refresh my understandinghashing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting a Value on Data
This question came to mind during a meeting this week. Here a good overview. To me it is first how the data can be used today to improve decision process.......
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson in College
In GigaOM: more steps towards a revolution in AI? How do you learn and collaborate like humans? Our own journey into AI used similar methods, but the large"...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cryptography Is Dead?
Comments from a keynote panel Whitfield “Whit” Diffie, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Dan Boneh are all famous cryptographers. They just gave a keynote panel at this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Search Works
From Google, a mostly visual description of how search works. From algorithms to answers. No algorithm details, and all of this would be known by anyone who has...
From Wild WebMink
Artificial Scarcity
When there’s no legitimate way to make money, dinosaur publishers resort to digital vandalism to create scarcity artificially. Technical measures that prevent reading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stats on Interest in Statistics
The Numbers Guy in the WSJ comments on the increasing interest in statistics as a field of study. Since statistics is the underlying foundation of analytics, it...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
House Creates Congressional App Challenge
The U.S. House of Representatives created a national academic competition this week for students to showcase their talents in science, technology, engineering,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising and the Internet of things
In the HBR: An internet of things that links to deliverable advertising. Kevin Ashton, mentioned in the article, worked with us in the innovation center.
From Schneier on Security