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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Should Kids Learn to Code in Grade School
This blog piece was republished from the KQED MindShift site with permission of the author. Author Sheena Vaidyanathan teaches 3D design and computer programming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Utilitarian Marketing
Mitch Joel in the HBR on utilitarian marketing, using the case of Meijer. Once again about the issue of finding things in a complex retail retail space, and leveraging...
From Wild WebMink
German Lessons
Why did Munich succeed but Freiburg fail in their open source migrations Following up from my look at the situation in Freiburg, I tried to distil the differences...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Guy Buys An iPad
In a move that had one of my friends deciding that maybe the Mayan forecast of the end of the world was true and another suggesting a tiny bit of hell had frozen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Midsize Loyalty Biometrics For Retail
I have been looking at both engaging and value adding plays for the midsize business in loyalty systems. I was pointed by the IBM Midsize group to the workGewandhaus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Computer Screen for a Car Windshield
In CACM: A heads up display for the automobile. Providing local information for the driver. Driving directions. And connecting the driver to their network...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Retools for Internal Startups
Last year I posted about SAP trying to utilize external startups for innovation. I was invited to one of their meetings concerning that approach. Now they have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk and Insurance in Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A discussion of risk and responsibility in innovation. Using innovation in nanotechnology as an example, from the insurance industry...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC to sponsor challenges and visions track at CIDR 2013
The CCC is sponsoring another in its series of “Challeges and Visions” tracks at the 6th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) January...
From Geeking with Greg
Google and the right database for the job
I finally got a chance to read "Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click", a paper out of Google presented at the recent VLDB 2012 conference. It describesDremel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Based Learning
There have been a number of attempts at using the enthusiasm and engagement seen with the use of games to deliver learning. Here is an example. Here for standardized...
From Schneier on Security
Comedy and Cryptography
Not the sort of pairing I normally think of, but: Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined on stage by comedian Dave Gorman, author and Enigma Machine owner Simon Singh...
From Computational Complexity
Where is the youth of TCS/questions on Nash Eq (guest post by VJ)
(Guest post by Vijay Vazirani.) On Theory Day on Nov 30, 2012 Vijay Vazarani gave a talk: New (Practical) Complementary Pivot Algorithms for Market Equilibrium...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Declare the Variables First
Back in the early days of programming one pretty much had to declare ones variables before writing any useful code. COBOL had (probably still has) a special section...
From Wild WebMink
A Bad Loser
Donald Trump seems to want us to think he’s an asset to Scotland. All the same, his behaviour there leaves many British people cold. His most recent outburst involved...
From The Noisy Channel
Lily 5.0, LinkedIn 2.0
What a wonderful week! On Tuesday, my daughter Lily turned 5. We celebrated by taking her out to her first karaoke night, where she had a blast — as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Indoor Mapping
We experimented first with kiosk based store floor maps, then with the advent of the simplest smart phone delivered directions to shoppers to allow them find aPopAI...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Make Your Data Last. Forever?
In overview article on storing away data. Just an introduction. Its not just about doing backups. We stored backups under mountains in the west. But how can...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Review / Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving
Programming involves a particular flavour of problem solving. If you're a beginner trying to get better at it, an educator teaching beginners, or just someone who...
From The Eponymous Pickle