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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Article on Postdocs by Anita Jones
In “The Explosive Growth of Postdocs in Computer Science,” a VIEWPOINT article in Communications of the ACM, CCC Council member Anita Jones analyzes trends that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Operational Intelligence
In Inside Analysis: The end game of all analytics, Big Data or otherwise, should be the way that it plugs into decision making. If you don't know how you make...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superbowl Ads
Ad Age links to all the 2013 super bowl ads in one spot. Convenient for review purposes.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Router Details you Don't Need
Mashable on how a Router Works. Its fun to see the internal details of things we use every day and take for granted. And in this case there is history too, about...
From Schneier on Security
Using Imagery to Avoid Censorship
Interesting: "It's really hard for the government to censor things when they don't understand the made-up words or meaning behind the imagery," said Kevin Lee,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 February 2013
I was flat out all last week teaching full-time. It was a good week even though a bit stressful. Starting teaching new courses, especially after a long hiatus,SAS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Company Emerges from Stanford Math
In BusinessWeek:With 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 My Biased Coin
Ad Board Update
We've finally got an update on the Government 1310 situation. As reported by the Crimson, FAS Dean Mike Smith sent out an email Friday, where he wrote that“somewhat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biological Simulation
In CACM: New progress in sources of data, and simulation analytics, and better and more complete models of biological systems are leading to better simulated systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Questions about Conversations with a System
My thoughts and questions prompted by an article today In the NYT: As alert systems and devices start having extended conversations with us, can we expect them...
From Putting People First
Talking, walking objects
The future is rich with sensor-based, animated devices to give us affirmation, coach us and just plain keep us company. Smart Design’s Carla Diana gives a good...
From Putting People First
Nicholas Carr on taking Clay Shirky’s ‘cognitive surplus’ idea to its logical, fascistic extreme
Max Levchin [one of the Silicon Valley elite—computer scientist, cofounder of PayPal, buddy of Peter Thiel, Yahoo director, restless entrepreneur, big thinker,...
From Putting People First
Redesigning public services so they can actually help people
Although I don’t agree with the implicit meaning of this Fast Company title (i.e. that public services currently do not help people – whereas the real issue is...
From Putting People First
Social Innovation Europe Magazine interviews Ezio Manzini
For more than two decades Ezio Manzini has been working in the field of design for sustainability. Recently, he focused his interests on social innovation –he started...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Cities Critique
Think of Smart Cities as extremely complex version of process control. With the added complexity of a mix of difficult to predict people. It also reminds me of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Failed Resource Predictions
Some examples of failed resource availability projections. In many cases some huge misses despite the apparent sophistication of the models. Forecasting models...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Better Products
Thoughtful piece in GigaOM: About the process of coming up with new products and extensions. Starting with knowing what has been done before. This article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Search Graph Means to Retail
What Facebook Search Graph Means to Retail. In POPAI: " " ... Basically, the bigger a brand’s fan base and, more importantly, the more active they are, the more...
From Putting People First
Dan Hill’s critique of the smart cities movement
Dan Hill (of CityofSound, ARUP, Sitra and now Fabrica fame) is not only extremely prolific, but his writing is also very much to the point. His latest Smart City...
From Putting People First