Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
On Feeding Your CPU With Data
Can you guess the speed difference between these two lines of code? The first line of code does N additions: for (int i=0; i<N;i++) sum+=arr[i]; The second line...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing a 3D House
Via Mark Perry. Points to a TED talk. Not close to feasible yet, see the comments section for some thoughts on that, but an indication of where the proponents...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Tech Investments They Never Made
An interesting piece in CW about how CIO's decide to make investments in technologies. What they have done or not and why. Done in a story format. Useful from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Analytics in the Utility Industry
Last year I attended a GE Smart Grid meeting and was inspired to take a closer look at how smart data and analytics are improving utility efficiency. I continue...
From Schneier on Security
U.S. and China Talking About Cyberweapons
Stuart Baker calls them "proxy talks" because they're not government to government, but it's a start.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 August 2012
Well it’s the middle of my vacation. Mostly I’m avoiding the Internet and email. Mostly. I’m not all that good at this vacation thing. In any case I do have a few...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversation with Jun Lee of ReD
Former colleague Lou Killeffer has a conversation with Jun Lee of ReD Associates on design thinking, strategies of innovation and how human behavior and views are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Still not Paperless After all These Years.
Have you noticed we are still not in a paperless world? It was predicted years ago, but I still get paper mail receipts, notes, specification sheets, businessArs...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Changes I Plan Make
Recently I read an article by Noa Gutow-Ellis a 10th grader in Houston, Texas: http://www.teachthought.com/industry/what-makes-teachers-great-from-the-perspective...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Remote Updating Curiosity
I have been been following the exciting work of NASA in landing on Mars. In particular how a number aspects of the system have autonomy and how that influences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd Sourcing Examples
A group of interesting examples of the use of Crowd Sourcing. I don't agree that Crowd Sourcing is always a smarter solution, but it should be considered. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
David Gelernter on the Internet School
In the WSJ: Good thoughts, I still like focusing the human touch, but lets use all the tools available: The Friendly, Neighborhood Internet School We have the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Lockers
In Innovation Excellence: In some locations you can have your Amazon shipment delivered to a locker that you can access 24 hours a day. You are emailed a one...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management
Soon to be published by a colleague: : Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management, byLaurence J. Laning and, Timothy J. Kloppenborg. Appears to"...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“How Big Data Became So Big”;New York Times Cites CCC White Papers
In an article published on The New York Times’ website this afternoon, the newspaper’s technology writer Steve Lohr describes the history and evolution of “Big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speed and Innovation
Blocking speed blocks innovation. Often yes, but the the scale-speed of the innovation matters. Early speed to trim ideas, is usually good ... but once down the...
From Wild WebMink
Freedom To Create
Sometimes we think software freedom just applies to programmers, but its creative impact can be much broader. This animated video is pretty clever: While it’s called...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Individualized Pricing
The NYT discusses how and why people can be given individualized prices for goods. If course this has been done for a long time. Through promotions. Loyalty...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarming Drones
Boeing demonstrates swarming drones. Which reminds me of long ago projects that looked at how simple,uni-purpose, cheap and even disposable robotics could be...
From Schneier on Security