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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
Health Care Innovation Challenge
Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation
From Putting People First
Another Life Is Possible
“Homage to Catalonia II” is a documentary, a research project, a story of stories about the construction of a sustainable, solidary and decentralized economy. The...
From Schneier on Security
Status Report: Liars and Outliers
After a long and hard year, Liars and Outliers is done. I submitted the manuscript to the publisher on Oct 1, got edits back from both an outside editor and a...
From Putting People First
The anatomy of an experience map
Chris Risdon expands on what constitutes a good experience map in a long and highly commendable article on the Adaptive Path blog. “The experience map highlighted...
From Putting People First
End-user development
Chapter ten of the interaction-design.org resource is now available in preview and deals with end-user development. Computer users have rapidly increased in both...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Purchasing Behavior to to Brands
New Database of Interest. Full of analytic possibilities: US
From Geeking with Greg
Browsing behavior for web crawling
A recent paper out of Yahoo, "Discovering URLs through User Feedback" (ACM), describes the value from using what pages people browse to and click on (which is in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Companies and Big Data
A long post on how companies can use data to be disruptive. Scattered but useful information to scan. All companies create data, and you might as well leverage...
From Computational Complexity
Matrix Mult (you heard it here... third?)
(INNOVATIONS CONFERENCE: here) (While preparing this two other bloggers wrote on the same topic, Scott here and Lipton/Regan here. Our slogan: Complexity Blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Creating Flavors
I worked for some time on using business analytics methods to create coffee flavors. Here CBS 60 Minutes talks about creating flavors. As might be expected...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Good Teaching is Not About the Programming Language
After working for a number of years as a commercial programmer, I decided to become a teacher here in New Zealand. As part of my teacher training, I had to chose...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Business Photo Tours
Google giving business tours. Stepping inside from just giving the street view. I like the general idea.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Procter & Gamble Virtual Retail
I mentioned in a previous post P&G building virtual retail spaces and using this idea to better understand the shopping consumer. Now an article about how they...
From Schneier on Security
Full Disclosure in Biology
The debate over full disclosure in computer security has been going on for the better part of two decades now. The stakes are much higher in biology: The virus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Applied Concept Mapping
I recently met with Brian Moon of Perigean Technology, practitioner of the what is called 'Concept Mapping', an advanced form of what is also called mind mapping...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DEBUT, Gig City
Two relevant challenges announced recently that are placing emphasis on prize-based innovation: DEBUT Challenge (for undergraduate students): The National Institute...
From Schneier on Security
Bad CIA Operational Security
I have no idea if this story about CIA spies in Lebanon is true, and it will almost certainly never be confirmed or denied: But others inside the American intelligence...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Perfect Educational Computer Lab
I had the following question via Twitter the other day
From Apophenia