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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
Rise of Enterprise Apps
I recently attended an enterprise business analytics meeting where a number of management people were openly seeking enterprise apps to power their newly delivered...
From Computational Complexity
Probability
On Saturday, Terrence Fine gave a talk on probability at a workshop at Northwestern. Before the talk he asked who thought probability was subjective (an individual's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twilight of Email
GigaOm has a good piece on the end of email, now about 40 years old. Yes, it has become increasingly annoying. But its annoyance is created in large part by its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Don't Limit What You Know
A friend sends along a link out of of the HBR Blog network. Don't let What You Know Limit What you Can Imagine. You have to have effective ways to look outside...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 December 2011
Happy Computer Science Education Week! Hope you are doing something fun and interesting to encourage students to study computer science this week. And maybe encouraging...
From Schneier on Security
Carrier IQ Spyware
Spyware on many smart phones monitors your every action, including collecting individual keystrokes. The company that makes and runs this software on behalf of...
From The Noisy Channel
Jim Adler: The Accidental Chief Privacy Officer
Privacy is the third rail of the cloud. On one hand, the ease of sharing information and the power of analytics have produced extraordinary value for consumers,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Billion Prices
Once more I had cause to look at the Billion Prices project at MIT. A way to calibrate prices generally and in real time by region? Clever idea to syndicate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain as Computer Model
In the New Mexican: Chris Wood at the Santa Fe Institute suggests that in an application of bio-mimicry we could use the brain as a model for new kinds of computation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innov8 for Health Competition
I see that the results of the Innov8 for health competition, held yesterday at the GE Aviation Learning Center, has posted the results in their blog. I got to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP to buy SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion
The price seems to be high, but the idea is right. Enterprise company SAP is positioning itself for future work in Cloud applications.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Creating a CS Presence at My School
When I started work at North Gwinnett High School a year and half ago, I was asked to teach two computer science courses: AP Computer Science and Computing in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buyology is Forbes #71
I see that a company I have worked with, Buyology Inc, is in Forbes as one of the 100 most promising companies. It is at #71. " ... Founded in 2008, this marketing...
From My Biased Coin
The End (of the Semester) is Nigh
If you've missed it (which probably means you're not a theorist and/or a blog-reader), you should check out the (entertaining) controversies of the last week or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Solutions for Everyday Objects
A continuation of work by Microsoft on embedded intelligence for everyday objects ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Market Apps
Yet another supermarket App, here at Giant Eagle. Nothing very new. The usual assortment of promotions, information, coupons and shopping list. They are easy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gaming and the Science of Expertise
In the SciAM Blog: How a game is being used to study the science of the development of expertise. Collaboration, multitasking and goal achievement.
From Schneier on Security