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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
Four new chapters on interaction-design.org
Four new chapters of the interaction-design.org resource are now available: Requirements Engineering from an HCI Perspective by Alistair G. Sutcliffe The chapter...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What has caught my attention lately:Videos showing Windows 8 is horribly painful for most people, looks likely to be another Windows Vista-like flop. Really worth...
From Writing
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Scala, Day 2
After a bumpy start with Scala on Day 1, I've moved onto the second day of Scala in Seven Languages in Seven Weeks.Scala, Day 2: ThoughtsThe second Scala chapter...
From Wild WebMink
? Making Google+ Work
I sometimes see complaints by people that Google+ is not as exciting and/or useful as a social media service they are already using, like Twitter or Facebook. They...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What's the State of (CS Ed in) Your State?
Jonathan Osborne The March issue of the a certification requirements for teachers who teach CS courses. In Georgia's state-approved curriculum, CS courses fall...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Illusory Superiority
A cognitive bias called the Dunning-Kruger effect. " ... In short, a person
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Does a Big Enterprise Deliver Data?
How does a big enterprise like Procter & Gamble securely deliver data in near real time to its decision makers? By using a system like Business Sphere, an internally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interest Graphs
I love the idea of using graphs to understand connectivity. We experimented with it many times using enterprise data. Walter Riker sends along a linkfrom GigaOM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata Integrated Analytics
While I was at P&G and Teradata was still part of NCR, we had NCR sales registers as part of our environment. I had the opportunity to work with some TeradataPortfolio...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Translations Retain Sound of Your Voice
From Microsoft Research:" ... Research software from Microsoft synthesizes speech in a foreign language, but in a voice that sounds like yours. ... Researchers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science at the World Economic Forum
The following is a special contribution to the CCC Blog by Stephanie Forrest, professor of computer science at the University of New Mexico — and until recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pre-Thinking vs Scenario Planning
In Innovation Excellence: Forecasting is a long term interest. I have taught it and implemented it in corporate systems. There are many styles, from using...
From Writing
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Scala, Day 1
It's time for a new chapter in the Seven Languages in Seven Weeks series: today, I take a crack at Scala.Scala, Day 1: ThoughtsAfter using Java for years, I was...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ChronoZoom
Microsoft Research announced a new project a couple of days ago called ChronoZoom - An Infinite Canvas in Time and you can get full information at that link but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taming Data
There are lots of new ways to gather data, are we, or will be be overwhelmed? Some useful thoughts about how to think about gathering and using it.
From Putting People First
BOOMERANG, death by gadget: the mobile phone
BOOMERANG, death by gadget : the mobile phone
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The origin of futurism
Bruce Sterling, the celebrated science fiction writer and author of Tomorrow Now, explains why you don’t need to be clairvoyant to predict the future. The article...
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