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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
Unilever Spending, Partnerships Up
In AdAge: This looks to be a considerable development: " ... Unilever has struck global partnerships with Samsung, Sony's Arcade Creative Group and EA Sports...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Coding is cool! Code.org urges students to learn to code with resources + terrific new video
Please bring the Code.org website and GREAT new inspirational video to the attention of all students, teachers, and parents you’re able to reach through your organization’s...
From Schneier on Security
Security Lessons from the Battle of Hoth
Someone has analyzed the security mistakes in the Battle of Hoth, from the movie The Empire Strikes Back.
From Putting People First
How ‘Minority Report’ trapped us in a world of bad interfaces
“There are better ways to handle spatial ideas,” writes commercial artist Christian Brown, “ways which are more in line with the way our bodies are built. Human...
From Computational Complexity
Enos, Oona, sqrt(3), and Aaronson
My darling does crossword puzzles and sometimes asks my help: Darling: Bill, Slaughter in Cooperstown- whats the answer? Bill: Enos. There was a serial murderer...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My So Called Secret Identity
Have you heard about the comic My So-Called Secret Identity? It's been making quite the buzz among many of my academic and women-in-tech friends. I finally had...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Most Schools Don’t Teach
Code.org has released their highly anticipated video to encourage more people, especially students, to learn how to code for computers. It’s one of the better videos...
From Putting People First
The future of lying
Someone told Intel’s futurist Brian David Johnson that technology could do away with all lying in the future. He was horrified by the idea and wrote this: The Future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HP Tablets
In an interesting development HP plans to be planning to deliver a family of tablet style devices. Recall the fiasco that HP had when they acquired the Palm OS...
From Schneier on Security
House Hearing: How Well Is the TSA Doing?
I would have liked to participate in this hearing: Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency: "Assessing DHS 10 Years"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attack of the Customers:
Colleague, correspondent and former co-fellow of mine at SNCR Paul Gillin has written a book on customer attacks using social media:Attack of the Customers: Why...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Technology: Blessing or Curse? A Case Study from the Magic Kingdom
I just got back from a week's vacation to what is supposed to be the happiest place on earth - Disneyworld. I come from a family that is not very technical or even...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Rise of the Swarm
Our enterprise did a number of analytics projects based on swarm technology, also called Agent Based Modeling. We brainstormed warehouse compliance swarms. Now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Driven Culture for Analytics
Good piece in a new newsletter I get. Business driven analytics, commentary by three analytics managers. The federated org structure sounds the most familiar...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NSF INSPIRE Solicitation Issued
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a new solicitation – Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) – that...
From Schneier on Security
Me at the RSA Conference
I'll be speaking twice at the RSA Conference this year. I'm giving a solo talk Tuesday at 1:00, and participating in a debate about training Wednesday at noon....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Excel and Big Data
In GigaOm: Walter Riker sends along this link about MS Excel and Hadoop. A surprising amount of analytical work is done in Excel, and it is natural to see links...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 25
February 26 Hearing: The Research Subcommittee and the Technology Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a joint hearing on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Team Blogging Practices
When I ran a multiple internal blog operation in the enterprise, the goals were knowledge retention, sharing and collaboration. We did both internal and external...
From Putting People First