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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
Social Media and the Olympics
Have been following the use of social media by Procter & Gamble and others in conjunction with the Games. This article has a good overview of a number of efforts...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AHRQ Requesting Information on Health Quality Measurements
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a Request for Information (RFI),...
From Wild WebMink
HP, Open Source and OpenStack
While HP was making plenty of noise at OSCON about its deployment of OpenStack as HP Cloud, it was the discovery that they have moved their open source program...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microstyle: Writing Little
Reading: Microstyle, The Art of Writing Little, by Christopher Johnson. About the rise of compressed writing in things like branding and social networks. So...
From Schneier on Security
Criminals Using Commercial Spamflooding Services
Cybercriminals are using commercial spamflooding services to distract their victims during key moments of a cyberattack. Clever, but in retrospect kind of obvious...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Package Goods Beats Sales Expectaton
All but one major packaged goods company has exceeded sales expectations. Spending increases. The pressure is on. In AdAge.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Intelligence and Advanced Data Discovery
Manny Aparicio of Saffron Technology sends along this note and links to supporting video:"At this year’s Gartner BI Summit in Los Angeles, Rita Sallam identified...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Curriculum is Hard
I’ve been involved in a number of curriculum projects over the years. The big one has been the ACM/IEEE CS 2013 task force that is making recommendations on undergraduate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Labs and Social Shopping
In ReadWriteWeb: Another look at Wal-Mart Labs. I like to think that they were inspired somewhat by our work. " ... “Transaction data often works, but it...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Interest in K-12 Policy Growing
I just returned from the Snowbird Conference in Utah and I was astounded at the level of attendee interest in education policy issues relating to computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Unshredding Challenge
In CACM: Solved it says. I encountered a related problem very early in my enterprise career. Not involved with anything secret. We partially solved the problem...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplified Programming for Expertise
Domain Specific Languages (DSL) have been proposed for years to bring the capability of computer programming to the non computing domain expert. By formulatingComputerWorld...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Imagining Tomorrow’s Computers Today”
Following a talk at the Euroscience Open Forum earlier this month, Intel principal engineer and futurist Brian David Johnson sat down with ScienceNOW to discuss...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Illness
In New Scientist: Here using data that comes from Twitter. I mentioned worked we did some years ago that used over the counter sales data. Twitter data is probably...
From Schneier on Security
Police Sting Operation Yields No Mobile Phone Thefts
Police in Hastings, in the UK, outfitted mobile phones with tracking devices and left them in bars and restaurants, hoping to catch mobile phone thieves in thestole...
From Wild WebMink
Call For Participation
Have you ever attended an open source conference? In my article for ComputerWorldUK today, I briefly review four good choices that you can attend over the next...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Mobile Talks
In the latest Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative newsletter there are a number of videos from a recent conference that deal with mobile customer behavior. Here...
From Wild WebMink
Explaining OSI Membership
The video of my keynote at OSCON is now live on YouTube: That link I mentioned: opensource.org/join
From The Eponymous Pickle
Offshoring and Innovation
In CIO: Can off shoring inhibit innovation? Only if it is poorly integrated with other corporate missions.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science