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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
CCC Seeking New Council Members
THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM SEEKS NOMINATIONS FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS The CCC’s Nominating Committee invites nominations (including self-nominations) for members...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Irrelevant Ideas and Breakthroughs
Always an interest of mine in innovation. I pushed the idea for years in the enterprise. Usually with partial success. Here some thoughts from Wharton. What...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Losing Shine
In E-Commerce Times. Although you can't tell it to the true fans, I am having more conversations about this recently. Not enough true innovation. Perception...
From Schneier on Security
Power and the Internet
All disruptive technologies upset traditional power balances, and the Internet is no exception. The standard story is that it empowers the powerless, but that's...
From Computational Complexity
Who do you write papers for?
Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana and new president of Purdue, wrote an inaugural letter where he discusses many of the challenges of higher education...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson the Shopping Assistant
A GigaOM piece just brought to my attention. The idea of using a cognitive system to solve problems was part of a direction we looked at in the late 80s during...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CIO Strategies with CIO Eureka
A former colleague of mine at Procter & Gamble: José Ignacio Sordo Galarza, has started a company called CIO Eureka, which looks at enterprise CIO strategies. "...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Student Teacher Time!
Spring is the season of student teachers. Do you remember when you went out and worked with an older, experienced teacher to see what the job was really like? You...
From Schneier on Security
"People, Process, and Technology"
Back in 1999 when I formed Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., I popularized the notion that security was a combination of people, process, and technology. Back...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Canadian Computing Education Day + Scratch Day Canada
This came though on one of the mailing lists I am on. I know that some from Canada read this blog (or so the analytic report claims) so I thought I would also share...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Martha Pollack selected to be University of Michigan Provost
Martha Pollack, University of Michigan Professor of EECS and past Dean of their School of Information, has been selected as Michigan’s next Provost – another sign...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data and Healthcare Infographic
Big Data could revolutionize healthcare by replacing up to 80% of what doctors do while still maintaining over 91% accuracy. Please take a look at the infographic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook and CPG
In Adage: How can Facebook work with the retailer and manufacturer in CPG? Useful numbers and thoughts. " ... CPG accounted for 12.5% of measured ad spending...
From Schneier on Security
Who Does Skype Let Spy?
Lately I've been thinking a lot about power and the Internet, and what I call the feudal model of IT security that is becoming more and more pervasive. Basically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Analytics Disruption in the Enterprise
Thoughtful piece in Greenplum. Once again I like the general idea, you look for patterns in data with an analytical search , then use an analytical method to use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Guide to 3D Printers
Want to manufacture things to digital specifications at a distance? Build components in your cellar? As long as the components can be cut, formed or extruded from...
From Putting People First
Q&A with the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation’s Gerry Greaney and Molly McMahon
Since its inception in 2008, the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation has become the poster child for internal innovation practices. The Center for Innovation focuses...
From Putting People First
Uncharted territory: Where digital maps are leading us
The way we use maps is evolving fast, and it will change a great deal more than how we navigate, argues Kat Austen, an opinion editor at New Scientist. “Digital...
From Computational Complexity
TCS online series- could this work?
Oded Regev, Anindya De and Thomas Vidick we are about to start an online TCS seminar series. See here for details, though I have the first few paragraphs below...
From Putting People First