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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
Anonymous Claims it Sabotaged Rove Election Hacking
Can anyone make heads or tails of this story? (More links.) For my part, I'd like a little -- you know -- evidence. Remember that Ohio was not the deciding state...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Navigating the Big Data Challenge
From Brain: Good overview of the challenge involved. Starting with a concise statement of the problem: " ... Today's decision makers have no trouble finding It...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Programmers Say When Their Programs Don’t Work
Someone posted this to Facebook the other day. I have to admit that I have said several of these and heard most of them. I suspect a lot of these are also said...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Pain of the Interface
In Technology Review: All UIs are a pain to use. Especially the new ones. I read this as I am about to select a new one.
From My Biased Coin
Computer Science Rhodes Scholar
A question we tend to get at Harvard is why students should come here to study computer science. There are lots of reasons, of course, but one thing we like to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Provides Ecosystem Financing
An interesting piece just received about how IBM is provide financing for its clients. Quite a broad opportunity to drive opportunities for growth.' ... IBM recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starwood Tweets Aloft
The Starwood Aloft hotel chain has started their agency review process using Twitter. Recall when they had a virtual presence in Second Life? My its been a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VSN Strategies
Colleague Jim Tenser has a blog called VSN Strategies. " .... James (“Jamie”) Tenser is an author and consultant to the retail and consumer products industry....
From Schneier on Security
E-Mail Security in the Wake of Petraeus
I've been reading lots of articles articles discussing how little e-mail and Internet privacy we actually have in the U.S. This is a good one to start with: The...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Code Literacy: A 21st-Century Requirement
This blog piece is reprinted with permission of its author, Douglas Rushkoff. It was originally published at http://www.edutopia.org/blog/code-literacy-21st-century...
From Wild WebMink
Open, Free and Commercial
"Open" is never used honestly to mean "non-commercial". "Open" means no permission required; only salesmen pretend otherwise.— Simon Phipps (@webmink) November...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Wonderful Riff On Rank
The approximate rank of matrices—a great idea Santosh Vempala is one of the world experts on high-dimensional geometry, and has made many beautiful contributions...
From Schneier on Security
Security Theater in American Diplomatic Missions
I noticed this in an article about how increased security and a general risk aversion is harming US diplomatic missions: "Barbara Bodine, who was the U.S. ambassador...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 November 2012
I made some more changes to the blog this last week. I hope they are not too disruptive but I want to make the site more useable and interesting. The big changes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Great Visualizations
Tableau provides a paper on data visualization. Requires Registration. " ... This paper traces the history of visual representation, from early cave drawingsthe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Colleges and the Teachers Apple
A link just sent to me. An interesting blog that addresses changes in the education industry. " ... A decade ago, electronics and cell phones in the classroom...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ask Your Director of Analytics
In Forbes: What should the questions you ask your director of analytics? If you have such a person. Not the usual things, more about the business aspects. That...
From Putting People First
UK study: tech in schools requires a rethink of how learning is organised
In the last five years UK schools have spent more than £1 billion on digital technology. From interactive whiteboards to tablets, there is more digital technology...
From Putting People First
Scotland study: Tablet devices in schools beneficial to children
School children who use a tablet computer benefit the most when allowed to take it home, rather than just using it in school, reveals research from the University...
From The Eponymous Pickle