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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 My Biased Coin
This Week, We Were Doing Security
If you look on Yelp's engineering blog (http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2011/10/output-filtering-failure.html), you'll see Yelp's VP of Engineering, Michael Stoppelman...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customized Subscriptions to Staples
In Mashable: Something we looked at in the early years of cell phone based shopping lists. Subscriptions to staples can be a powerful concept.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better to Call than E-Mail
In the HBR Blog, email may be easier, but it is less impactful:" ... But the bigger need is just for more live conversations to occur, period. This is especially...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Can You Reconstruct Shredded Documents?
That’s the question being posed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which recently announced
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Sorting Algorithms Do Beginners Need To Learn
Do beginners even need to learn sorting algorithms? Let
From The Noisy Channel
Interview in Forbes: What is a Data Scientist?
Dan Woods has been interviewing a variety of folks to answer the question: “What is a data scientist?“, and I had the honor to participate in his series. Here is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
KYield Executive Summary
Mark Montgomery gives a new executive summary of his work on the KYield blog. And announces seeking candidates for a CTO role. Check it out and pass it on.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Writing My ISTE Keynote
I had mail today saying that ISTE was looking for nominations to present a keynote in San Diego this summer. They asked “could it be you?” Well unlikely it would...
From Schneier on Security
DARPA Cyber Colloquium
I note that the three "industry leaders" speaking at the DARPA Cyber Colloquium next week have about 75 years of government experience between them.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boot Camp Digital
Boot Camp Digital, by former colleague Krista Neher, Social Media tips and tricks and useful connections.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deal Making at A&P
An example of how companies like The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company are using Deal Management software from Demandtec to improve the end to end promotion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Design Changing the Way we Think
Good piece in the Atlantic. It also points to the organization called The Institute of Play. Which looks at the relationship of games and learning.The PowerGame...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My favorite LaTeX editor for MacOS: Texpad
I always found word processors distracting. I hate to copy and paste text only to find that the text formatting was copied as well. When I write, I do not want...
From Apophenia
Why Parents Help Children Violate Facebook
Announcing new journal article: “Why Parents Help Their Children Lie to Facebook About Age: Unintended Consequences of the ‘Children’s Online Privacy Protection...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoE, ONR Announce Materials Genome Solicitations
Back in June, the Administration announced a $500 million Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) to stimulate the development of new technologies
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Sets up Virtual Stores
P&G has set up a number of augmented reality, smartphone-enabled virtual stores in the Prague subways. In AdWeek. Not unique, but a creative effort. Going where...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twenty Year Look at fMRI
A view of the only twenty year history of fMIRI scanning of the brain.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What To Tell Students About Computer Science
Last Friday I drove down to Cape Cod. Just over the Cape Cod canal via the Bourne Bridge is Upper Cape Tech. They have an outstanding culinary arts program andKinect...
From The Eponymous Pickle