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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
Ask Fewer Questions
Michael Schrage talks about a fundamental tool of our industry: Asking questions. Sometimes its verbal, sometimes via an email or a store survey. It happens...
From Computational Complexity
The Net or the Jet
I spent the first half of my life in the jet age but not in the Internet age. I could fly anywhere in the world but the fastest way to get a research paper to another...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Promoting Technology-Mediated Social Participation with a Summer Social Webshop
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Jenny Korn, a Ph.D. student in communications at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Korn was one of the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Cloud Fundamentals Video Series
The Trustworthy Computing group has been recording a series on Cloud computing fundamentals. The series (some 25 videos) wraps up this week with a series finale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing Social Network Models
From Wharton: An extensive piece on the topic. " ... Recent downturns in the stock price of several social media companies -- several of which debuted to much...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Issues New Solicitation for Sustainability (SEES) Fellows
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a solicitation for its Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) Fellows program, paving the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connect and Development Opportunities: Unstructured Data
I just received a list of needs from P&G's Connect and Development outreach via P&G's alumni network that may be of interest to this group. The all have elements...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiny Machines
Via the Foresight Institute Richard Feynman's seminal 1959 talk on nanotechnology: Tiny Machines. And also a talk: There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom. Foresight Institute is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Network Wide Inventory Reduction
As part of my continued look at supply chain technologies and measures I found this excellent article: Supply Chain News: How Do Companies Perceive Opportunities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Meets Cloud
Forbes article on how big data meets the Cloud. A good piece by Forrester on the use of many resources, internal and external to drive business intelligence....
From Schneier on Security
Shared Lock
A reader sent me this photo of a shared lock. It's at the gate of a large ranch outside of Victoria, Texas. Multiple padlocks secure the device, but when a single...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Seeking Unconventional Processors for ISR Data Analysis
Earlier this month, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a new initiative that aims “to break the status quo of digital processing” by...
From Putting People First
Report: Managing Megacities (by UX Lab at Ericsson Research)
Megacities may be congested and complex, but are also among the planet’s most exciting places to live. They have proven effective at stimulating creativity, innovation...
From Putting People First
What data can’t tell you about customers
Across industries, companies are using the vast amounts of user-generated data to guide innovation of new products and services. But data mining does not equate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
I ran into these Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics created by the Computer Ethics Institute while looking for something completely different. Isn’t that so often...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
Some of what has caught my attention lately: Pump and dump, both at the Facebook and Groupon IPOs. ([1] [2]) "The thrilling demise of Groupon's crummy business...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Next Generation Science Standards Should Include CS
On May 11, the Washington, DC-based group Achieve released its first public draft of the "Next Generation Science Standards" or NGSS. These standards, coupledComputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Full Scale Virtual Research
I had the pleasure of visiting John Milby's Full Scale Virtual Research Lab today. Got a great tour and technical discussion of work underway there. I worked"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Further Rise of the Visual
In Fast Company: All is becoming more visual, shorter and simpler. Pinterest and Video. Info graphics. With an emphasis on entertaining rather than informing...
From The Eponymous Pickle