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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Launches Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace Program; Webinar Scheduled
Last month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched a new multi-disciplinary program — Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)
From Schneier on Security
Free Cryptography Class
Dan Boheh of Stanford University is teaching a free cryptography class starting in January.
From Putting People First
Everything is a service
A long essay by Dave Gray, founder of the XPLANE/Dachis Group, explores the topic of the service economy from a user experience point of view. Make sure you read...
From Putting People First
Design for digital context (white paper)
Fjord, the digital design consultancy, has just completed a white paper called “Design for Context: Understanding How User Context is Evolving”, looking at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Medical Data Access
From Technology Review: Discovered during a look at the 'medical circles' idea addressed here previously. To what degree should you have access to data whichDoctors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storeflix: A Social Network for Business
Just brought to my attention: Storeflix. " ... The social media application gives businesses the ability to instantly see and analyze their business operations...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is back
The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is back and you could win big! Play Rock, Paper, Scissors in the cloud for your chance to win a trip to Cancun, an Acer Aspire...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The New Know
Colleague Jose Guerra brought this book to my attention. The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics (Wiley and SAS Business Series) by Thornton A. May (Sep "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gathering BI Requirements
From TDWI: How to interview for business intelligence requirements. This is fairly obvious, but worth reading if you you are new to this area, or as a reminder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Citrix Collaborative Workspace
A post in the HBR blog. A good look, with pictures, of the Citrix example. How can physical spaces promote effective collaboration, innovation, brainstorming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
5% of Adults Use QR Codes
This seems quite low, though not far from my own observation, probably mostly those with other technology interests. The code reading Apps are getting better and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ShopKick Partners with Visa
Followed ShopKick for a while due to their more precisely locational approach for a retailer engagement method. Now a partnership has emerged: " ... Shopkick...
From My Biased Coin
Round Two Reviewing : An Exercise in Conditional Probabilities
We're in "round 2" of reviews for NSDI, and it's brought up a problem for me I've noticed before. I worry that, subconsciously, I'm inclined to give papers I read...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 November 2011
This week will be a short one with the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US later this week. I
From Computational Complexity
The Jobs Bio
I just finished the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs. Seems like everyone in the blogosphere has analyzed every sentence in the book, so I won't do that....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Third Annual CSEdWeek Just Around the Corner
The third annual Computer Science Education Week — CSEdWeek
From Schneier on Security
Hack Against SCADA System
A hack against a SCADA system controlling a water pump in Illinois destroyed the pump. We know absolutely nothing here about the attack or the attacker's motivations...
From Wild WebMink
Open Source Nurtures Innovation
Following on from a blog posting about open source and innovation by Stephen O’Grady, I’ve written about the way open source potentially makes innovation easier...
From Putting People First