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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
Greening the Supply Chain
A Wharton special report on practices for sustainability and greening the supply chain. Best practices and future trends.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
How Important is Gameplay for Educational Games, Anyway?
Gameplay
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do not waste time with STL vectors
I spend a lot of time with the C++ Standard Template Library. It is available on diverse platforms, it is fast and it is (relatively) easy to learn. It has been...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Can You Hear the Shape of a Quantum Computer?
Debate round 3: Computation cannot hide the physics Mark Kac was a great mathematician, and worked mainly in probability theory. Kac is famous for the Erdős-Kac...
From Putting People First
Nathan Shedroff on the past and future of experience design
Nathan Shedroff (bio), the pioneer in Experience Design, Interaction Design and Information Design, and the chair of the MBA in Design Strategy at California College...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobility in Healthcare IT
In ComputerWorld: Will health care organizations need what is akin to a Chief Mobility Officer? Mobility is a key to efficient healthcare. Linking together...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking About Next School Year
As the rolling schedule of school year openings and closings continues it looks like school is just about done everywhere in the US this week. Today is the last...
From Schneier on Security
Switzerland National Defense
Interesting blog post about this book about Switzerland's national defense. To make a long story short, McPhee describes two things: how Switzerland requires military...
From Putting People First
Spaniards turn to barter, alternative banks to alleviate economic pain
Spanish institutions are in no shape to help struggling Spaniards, so they’re turning to alternative banks and ways of exchanging goods to get by, reports Andr
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Thinking
In Wired: Future thinking relies on out memory of the past. And our memories of the past are not as reliable as we think. They are easily altered and deceived....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Bill Wulf resigns from the University of Virginia in protest
Eminent computer scientist Bill Wulf, who has been a leader by example for so many years in so many ways, has resigned from the University of Virginia to protest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
The work of Robert Axelrod and William Poundstone fascinated us in graduate school as we tried to apply AI techniques to decision strategies. I see that The Edge...
From Schneier on Security
Attack Against Point-of-Sale Terminal
Clever attack: When you pay a restaurant bill at your table using a point-of-sale machine, are you sure it's legit? In the past three months, Toronto and Peel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chemistry of Enthusiasm
Bain Insights: Which makes considerable sense. " ... The revenues and stocks of companies with highly engaged workers outperform those of companies with low engagement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Safeway Supports Shopping Research
In Progressive Grocer: Safeway joins with Duke-Ipsos on shopping research. More on that effort. There has been relatively little I have found on this shopping...
From Schneier on Security
The Failure of Anti-Virus Companies to Catch Military Malware
Mikko Hyponnen of F-Secure attempts to explain why anti-virus companies didn't catch Stuxnet, DuQu, and Flame: When we went digging through our archive for related...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Mining
Analyzing raw video from cameras. Videomining, a company we talked to as a potential solution for analyzing retail video lab stores that examined shopping contexts...
From Wild WebMink