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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
Mobile as a Bridge to In-Store
In AdAge: Writing about a recent Google study. Obvious at one level, but also an increasingly important concept as mobile becomes our ever available information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Center for Business Analytics
In development and talking to:The UC Center for Business Analytics (CBA) brings together organizations and a world-class, multidisciplinary group of faculty and...
From Schneier on Security
A Real Movie-Plot Threat Contest
The "Australia's Security Nightmares: The National Security Short Story Competition" is part of Safeguarding Australia 2012. To aid the national security community...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Have I Gotten Myself Into?
One of the things I hear from university computer science faculty on a regular basis is that they have trouble retaining students. What happens is that students...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Expresses Concerns Over Support For Scientific And Technical Conferences
Part of the response to the reported excesses in conference spending involving the General Services Administration has been to restrict conference and travel spending...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driving Profitability with Retail Analytics
From the current issue of Analytics Magazine. An excellent, practical publication that deals with quantitative analytical methods. Here: " ... How to make choices...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF’s CISE, OCI Leadership Issue Letter to Community
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced an organizational realignment last week, including plans to integrate the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) within...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Internet Association
From the Precursor Blog:" ... Google, Amazon, eBay, and Facebook reportedly are launching a new Internet Association in mid-September to be "the unified voice of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Balancing Creativity and Sales
In Adage: " ... The task of delivering on both sales and creativity falls to Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Keith Weed, a career Unilever executive...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Grad School + Baby: Why Tracking Time is Useful
Last week was the official start to the fall semester, which also marks my official return to being a student. This time, things are a little different: I haveI've...
From Wild WebMink
OSS2012 Keynote
What’s driving open source in 2012? I presented a keynote address at OSS2012, the 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems this morning. My talk, entitled...
From Computational Complexity
Some quantum Stuff
Two quantum announcements (emailed to me by Umesh Vazirani, and produced here almost exactly) and then some thoughts of mine quantum computing. Announcement one...
From Schneier on Security
New Attack Against Chip-and-Pin Systems
Well, new to us: You see, an EMV payment card authenticates itself with a MAC of transaction data, for which the freshly generated component is the unpredictable...
From Putting People First
From design fiction to experiential futures
In honor of its Ten-year Anniversary, the Association of Professional Futurists (yes, they exist!) launched its first publication, The Future of Futures. Edited...
From Putting People First
Peter Merholz on Reframing 'UX Design'
Peter Merholz, a UX thinker and practitioner whom I have always held in high esteem, has written a well thought through blog post on reframing UX design. The two...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Decision Cockpit Detailed
P&G's CIO Filippo Passerini provides some detail about P&G's long in development Decision Cockpit, the brains behind the Business Sphere information delivery approach...
From Putting People First
Intel conversations about the future
Intel dabbles in science fiction, titles ReadWriteWeb. On Monday, they write, Intel debuted a book of science fiction stories. Dubbed Imaging the Future And Building...
From Putting People First
The bling approach to the school of the future
Recently I have been exploring developments on the impact of new technologies on the future of education, particularly in high schools. The latest trend in education...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New School Year Brings New Round of “CS Bits & Bytes”
With the start of the 2012-13 school year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) yesterday released the first issue of the second volume of CS Bits & Bytes, focusing...
From Schneier on Security