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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
Data Tech Trend
Data will be a defining Tech Trend. Based on several trips I took in December to clients, it is clear that companies are looking for ways to leverage their huge...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Orphans
I had a conversation with one one of the senior managers of the FIRST Lego League challenge. FIRST Lego League or FLL is a robot related competition for students...
From My Biased Coin
Pointer, to Cash for Citations
I'm disturbed to find that nobody is offering to pay me large sums just to have me affiliated with them for the purposes of raising their citation count. WhatCrooked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maps of science
In Flowingdata: An interesting map that shows the interrelationships of scientific fields based on published papers. This kind of visualization is more useful for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing our Relationhip with Technology
Will AI do this?. An Intel director comments. Yes I have believed that since our work in the area in the 80s. It is a matter of timing. We were too optimistic...
From Schneier on Security
Allocating Security Resources to Protect Critical Infrastructure
Alan T. Murray and Tony H. Grubesic, "Critical Infrastructure Protection: The Vulnerability Conundrum," Telematics & Informatics, 29 (February 2012): 56
From Putting People First
More than money
It’s increasingly clear that we live in collaborative times. Many of the most interesting innovations of recent years have at their heart ideas of sharing, bartering...
From Schneier on Security
Applying Game Theory to Cyberattacks and Defenses
Behzad Zare Moayedi, Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi, "A Game Theoretic Framework for Evaluation of the Impacts of Hackers Diversity on Security Measures," Reliability...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 02 January 2012
Happy New Year! My best wishes for a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year to all my readers. Today is technically the last day of y vacation. Back to a full day...
From Putting People First
AI Will Change Our Relationship With Tech
Genevieve Bell, interaction and experience research director at Intel Labs, has published a guest post on the BBC website on how artificial intelligence will change...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Joy of Quiet
On the joy of quiet. Getting away from the deluge of data. On a current trip I have been juggling three devices and when one of them failed found myself feeling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Media and Children
On media and children. Effects positive and negative. In particular on games and children. With lots of references to studies on the topic.
From The Noisy Channel
Next Play!
Every year brings its own adventures, but for me 2011 will be a tough act to follow. A year ago, I’d just started
From Wild WebMink
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a short 2011 annual statistics report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: In 2011, there were 287 new posts, growing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Official Blog Sums Most all of it up
The official google blog sums up the last year of posts, reminding me of a number of things I had followed up on and some I had forgotten. Many still remain interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personal Brand Audit
The Burghard Group Suggests:Simple steps for a personal brand Audit. Good set of straightforward ideas.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
An Exciting New Year
2011 was special, particularly with the arrival of our daughter Molly. But 2012 is looking pretty great, too!Although I wasn't able to get an NSF grant application...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Computing
A topic we followed.. Not an unexpected direction. Integrated computing and clothing. We are not far off today, with buzzing devices in pockets altering us to...
From The Eponymous Pickle