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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
Is the 1,9,90 rule outdated?
The BBC have just released some interesting research around participation online, writes Neil Perkin on FutureLab. The findings (the result of a “large-scale, long...
From Computational Complexity
Wall Street Complexity
There is much blame to go around for JPMorgan Chase's two billion dollar loss last week but part of that blame came back to us. In a New York Times web piece, ...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA to Unveil Initiative on Natural Language Analysis
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced plans to issue a new Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) titled
From Schneier on Security
The Trouble with Airport Profiling
Why do otherwise rational people think it's a good idea to profile people at airports? Recently, neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris related a story...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Your Customers How to Behave
New author interview from HBR: How Starbucks Trains Customers to Behave: " ... Anne Morriss, managing director of the Concire Leadership Institute, explains how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on Big Data
An excellent long pdf by the McKinsey Global Institute on the present status and future of Big Data. In the process of reading, but a very well done documentChris...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Solutions
At the enterprise we were an early and big implementor of SAP solutions. I am in the midst of gathering representative examples of big data analytics. Correspondent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Who and Whom
In the Language Log: On Who and Whom. I had read somewhere else that the distinction between these two are disappearing, based on written word analyses. Here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Name Wizard is Back
I was reminded of Mark Wattenberg's Name Voyager. Has not been around for a while. Perhaps due to some licensing issue? The site also contains other interesting...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Lauren Ipsum Goes to Seven Lucky Girls
Remember that computer science storybook I mentioned recently? It turns out that the authors of Lauren Ipsum have a Get One, Give One program. I had written to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Social Media
McKinsey chimes in on how to use and demystify social media. Well done.
From Putting People First
Do you really want your bank following you around all day?
A conversation with senior Wells Fargo execs reveals a bank trying to use the Internet, social media and mobile technology to worm its way deeper and deeper into...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Book on Squid
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid. And a review. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Location Augmented Reality
Augmented reality to provide 3D remote interaction: "Microsoft is developing an augmented reality system that allows users in different locations to work together...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Big Data
Paul Hofmann, formerly of SAP, now with Saffron Technologies has a presentation on Big Data. Good short overview with examples that is worth reviewing.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning Should Be Fun
Years ago I was sitting the the front of church and via a fluke of acoustics I heard a little girl in the back of the church tell someone
From Putting People First
People-powered health co-production catalogue
The people at Nesta, the UK innovation charity, think that co-production is potentially transformative and its power comes from re-framing the problem and re-establishing...
From Putting People First