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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 Schneier on Security
Details of an Internet Scam
Interesting details of an Amazon Marketplace scam. Worth reading. Most scams use a hook to cause a reaction. The idea being that if you are reacting, they get...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 January 2013
Everyone back at school yet? A lot of universities are not while other have short January terms. Most K-12 schools in the US though are back. Some have startedNerd...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leaders Make the Future
Bob JohansenIFTF Distinguished FellowInstitute for the Future124 University Avenue, 2nd FloorPalo Alto, CA 94301Author of Leaders Make the Future, Second Edition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science as the Future of IT
In GigaOM: Another overstatement, but a useful one to think about. Analytics, necessarily based upon data, is the essence of driving value from information, and...
From My Biased Coin
Security, Disclosure, Legality
I guess I'm late to this news, but I stumbled across the case of Andrew Auernheimer, who was convicted of one count of identity fraud and one count of conspiracy...
From updated sporadically at best
What is Computer Science?
Every now and then, a non-technical friend--or stranger at a party--will ask me, "What is computer science?" As your typical antisocial computer scientist, I am...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competitors Address Myths with Vaginal Knowledge
In Adage: Interesting approach from Kimberly-Clark that competes with work by my former enterprise, P&G. The positioning seems to be delivering expertise vs the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Video
An MSN Canada video on the use of neuromarketing. Nothing very new here, but I like that they show an application of eye-tracking, neuroactivity analysis and emotion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification as Concept Waning
I was involved in a number of applications in the enterprise that would today be called gamification. Involving people to engage with systems and data to compete...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Predictions and Principles
With a year end thank-you to Ken Ken Regan is the co-editor of GLL and is one of the internationally-ranked chess players in the US. He has won the city championship...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Finally Captured on Video
We'll see it later this month. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Experience is everything
We learned recently that one of the leading opponents to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Mark Lynas, decided that he had it all wrong. GMOs save the Earth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming OBAIS Seminars
Upcoming at the University of Cincinnati:The OBAIS department invites you to attend the following four seminars in January, all of which will be in Lin 217 from...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Meeting
On November 27-29, 2012, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Principal Investigator Meeting was held. The SaTC program...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Nerd Score, Geek Code and Over Reaching the Geek
The other day I was bouncing around the Internet an came across of quiz to compute ones “Nerd Score.” It was a fun little quiz and I knew I’d come out fairly nerdy...
From Putting People First
Steelcase’s anthropologist on remaking offices to create happier workers
Anthropologist Donna Flynn directs Steelcase’s WorkSpace Futures, a 19-member independent research group within the global office design company, that is responsible...
From Putting People First
Big Data, healthcare, and the human lens
Now and then somebody writes something that you don’t only wholeheartedly agree with, but that is so deliciously written that it’s a pure joy to read. Ian Eslick...
From Putting People First
Fitness by design
Can data heal? Yes, argues Dan Hon, whose type 2 diabetes spurred him to embrace “personal informatics” devices such as the Nike FuelBand and the Fitbit. Yet as...
From My Biased Coin
No Stress
Greg Morrisett points me to this bit of silliness to start my morning: University professors have a lot less stress than most of us. Unless they teach summer school...
From The Eponymous Pickle