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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 Putting People First
The psychology of content design
In a long article Jonathan Cutrell talks about a strategy for creating content that revolves around its portability to multiple scenarios, devices, and access frames...
From Putting People First
How Google is becoming an extension of your mind
Stephen Shankland thinks that Google is becoming an extension of your mind, an omnipresent digital assistant that figures out what you need and supplies it before...
From Putting People First
That
Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan argue in the New York Times Sunday Review that the device in your purse or jeans that you think is a cellphone, is in fact a tracking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Health Care via Big Data
In GigaOM: Not much detail here, but lots of players mentioned. It is not only the idea of Big Data, but sometimes even just some data, intelligently sharing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interview with Alan Kay
Good interview with Alan Kay. Developer of Smalltalk. We talked to him long ago about the use of 'object oriented' methods for making development more efficient...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comment Thoughts
Anyone who runs a blog has noticed that there are sharply increasing amounts of Spam being received. I approve all comments to this blog. I cannot approve anything...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Replace Personal Relationships
Cooking information like recipes are a typical currency exchanged in families. Now that is being replaced by online resources. I have noticed that in my own cooking...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
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Hitting hardness makes a 30-year-old conjecture harder Alan Selman is one of the founders of Complexity Theory, both through his deep research and his unselfish...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five National Parks on Streetview
A further archiving of our landscape. Very nicely done. Tour the parks from your armchair. As an amateur botanist this allows me to link to specific plants...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AFOSR to Hold 60th Anniversary Event This Fall
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has announced plans for a daylong event this fall marking its 60th anniversary. The conference and exhibit —...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms Writing Articles
Based on the kinds of things I have seen in the press lately, and the increasing need for content to fill so many empty spces, perhaps it is inevitable.
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Kind of Science, Again
Steven Wolfram looks back at the publication of 'A New Kind of Science', which we examined ten years ago as a means to model certain kinds of group interaction....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Medical Visualization
We live in a world that will increasingly bring sensors, experts, databases and models of many kinds closer together to provide help to the decision maker. AndA...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Barbecued Squid -- New Summer Favorite
In the UK, barbecued squid is in: Sales of squid have tripled in recent months due to the growing popularity of Mediterranean food and the rise of the Dukan diet...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Turing Award Winner's Presentation on K-12 CS
I just got back from attending ITiCSE (http://www.iticse12.org.il/htmls/home.aspx) a computer science education conference that is similar to SIGCSE, except that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Courses
And more R courses for data visualization and analytics. In this case it is more about new methods being made available that will soon be in the toolbox of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Rewards Programs
The latest on customer rewards programs from Progressive Grocer. The overall return on investment has been increasing. The sophistication of the methods to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Post CS & IT 2012 Thoughts
The first part of this week was spent in Irvine CA for the 2012 CS & IT Conference. It
From Computational Complexity