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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
Concern About Millenials
I have always thought that concerns about adapting to epochal population groups are overplayed. My own experience has been that it is true that there are differences...
From Putting People First
Book: Ethnography and the City – Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork
Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork Richard E. Ocejo (Editor) Routledge, 2012, 272 pages (Amazon link) The only collection of its kind on...
From Putting People First
The irrational consumer: why economics is dead wrong about how we make choices
“The New Science of Pleasure,” a new paper by Daniel L. McFadden, reviews how psychology, biology, and neurology are ganging up on economics to prove that, when...
From Writing
MySQL error: last packet sent to the server was XXX ms ago
I just spent a few weeks battling a strange, infrequent, hard-to-reproduce error when using JDBC to talk to MySQL. After about a dozen experiments, I think I've...
From Wild WebMink
Snowy Branches
Snowy Branches, originally uploaded by webmink. Snow is something of a novelty where we live, despite being in England. The mildness that results from being on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Traffic Pilot
I notice in a current press release that the city of Cologne, Germany has completed a pilot of a smarter traffic system created by IBM. In graduate school we used...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cantor’s Theorem: The Movie
A short film about the famous diagonal method of Cantor Source: “One Water” Ed Talavera is the chair of the Department of Cinema and Interactive Communication in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modular Sensors: Node
In GigaOM, from CES, A video about the Node modular sensor. Integrating sensors into the net and analytic processes is an important next step to the 'thinking'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curiosity as Gateway Competency
Good thought here. Developed broadly in Chief Learning Officer mag: " ... Curiosity may be the most helpful competency in business today. Start with genuine inquisitiveness...
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Cooking for One
You there. Eating takeout at your kitchen counter, pots and pans clean and neatly stowed. Third time this week. Your taste buds are getting a little bit bored and...
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How Science Really Works
The theme of the week is research, theory vs. practice.This past week, the #overlyhonestmethods Twitter hashtag went viral, my friend Phil Guo published an MITHow...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Standards Now Aligned to Other National Standards
Have you become familiar with the new CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards? I'm sure you are aware that the standards were revised and published in December 2011...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Search for the Colossal Squid
Now that videographers have bagged a giant squid, the search turns to the colossal squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Research for Small and Medium Sized Businesses
I cut my teeth in technology and business research in the enormous enterprise. That is a place where you have lots of flexibility that lets you bring in new methods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Neuroscience Consultancy
Rafal Ohme, a former colleague in neuromarketing applications, has started a London based consultancy. There will be more here as I get to talk to them. FromMrWeb...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Interactive Storytelling: Slides from CUSEC 2013
Here are my slides from yesterday's talk at CUSEC 2013. There are normally embedded videos in the slides; this version links to the videos online instead. Interactive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data to Predicted Events and Decisions
Can the future be predicted by tracking Twitter? A government project that addresses this. In a recent post I mentioned work that I have been tracking track and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ads Based on Mood and Body Language
Ads and emotion. A popular thought in the media these days. Technology companies are thinking about it as well: " ... In an application filed in December 2010...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Achieve 2013: EduTech Family Summits
A friend asked me to pass this along so I am doing so. I’m hoping to make the event in Boston (Boston – January 26, 2013 Register now!) which is coming up soonMicrosoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle