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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
Business Analytics Roadmap
From AnalyticsBridge: An interesting paper that addresses the process. Somewhat overplayed in my opinion, but it is worth a look for alternatives to design...
From Schneier on Security
Another Liars and Outliers Excerpt
IT World published an excerpt from Chapter 4.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tide Thefts Rampant
This saw considerable press a few weeks ago. The P&G detergent Tide being used as a 'currency' for criminals. And becoming the object of theft. Not because...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Preventing Support Agent Burnout
Using game dynamics to prevent support agent burnout. A reasonable area of application since it includes tiresome tasks, but is it reasonably scalable?
From Putting People First
Futurescapes
FutureScapes, an open collaboration project by Sony and Forum for the Future, aims to bring together a range of expert thinkers, designers, futurologists, writers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Agencies Seek White Papers, Announce Cybersecurity Symposium
Earlier this month, the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program — the Federal...
From Putting People First
Helsinki Street Eats: a book about everyday food
Helsinki Street Eats: a book about everyday food By Bryan Boyer and Dan Hill, with contributions from Ville Tikka, Nuppu G
From Schneier on Security
Unprinter
A way to securely erase paper: "The key idea was to find a laser energy level that is high enough to ablate - or vaporise - the toner that at the same time isNew...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Best and Most Innovative Teachers
Being somewhat opinionated about the subject (who am I kidding
From Wild WebMink
7 Google+ Tips
I’ve expanded my earlier posting about Google+ and you’ll find not five but
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Launches Innovation Online Program
From Consumer Goods Technology: " ... Unilever's Open Innovation team launched a new online platform, which offers experts the opportunity to help the company...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Legal Tangles in the Cloud
Additional Cloud risks. The danger of legal actions in the Cloud. A recent example shows the danger.
From Computational Complexity
Heading South
Starting in July, I'll be chair of the School of Computer Science in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Annie Ant
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What's the State of (CS Ed in) Your State?
The March issue of the CSTA Voice (see p. 4-5) includes a look at some state-by-state results from the 2011 National Secondary Computer Science Survey . AsCertification...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lexus RFID Enabled Print Ad
An NFC enabled print ad for Lexus in Wired Magazine. Readable from NFC enabled phones or other devices. Why this versus a QR code? I have not tried the phone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The New iPad and Business
From ComputerWorld a post on the applicability of the new iPad to business. Personnally I do not plan to upgrade from the '2' unless I need to utilize or test...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
From counting citations to measuring usage (help needed!)
We sometimes measure the caliber of a researcher by how many research papers he wrote. This is silly. While there is some correlation between quantity and quality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamifying Your Life
Can your life processes be gamified? Can you adjust your more mundane tasks by using game dynamics> This article looks at Apps that claim to do this. Had only...
From Schneier on Security