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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
Bored in Space
You would not think it was possible. To be bored while in space, with all the tasks to do and the stars and earth to look at. But apparently it is, and games...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hadoop and IBM do Big Data in the Cloud
I have just started to look at Hadoop, which " ... enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired byGoogle'sIBM...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kinect-ing at the NJSBA Annual Workshop
Normally the conferences I attend are about educational technology or computer science education. Events like ISTE, MASSCue, TCEA, SIGCSE or CSTA
From My Biased Coin
Students are Awesome(ly Productive Right Now)
What's the use of a blog if you can't brag about your students? And my students have all been doing great stuff, so I'm excited to let others know about theirarxiv...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Launching Ketchup on Facebook
For their most avid fans, Heinz is launching some new flavors of Ketchup on Facebook. An interesting example or relatively low involvement products. But they...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
It Is Not Where You Work, But Who You Work With
It is widely believed that intellectual productivity is tied to location. That is, if you work in a basement at Harvard like Walter Bishop in the TV show Fringe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Short History of the Web at Work
How the web has powered work for 20 years. A brief view of the history and its implications. It seems like it has been much longer. What is next?
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
International S&E Visualization Challenge: Vote Before Friday
Back in February, we noted that the National Science Foundation and Science
From Schneier on Security
Cracking the Copiale Cipher
I don't follow historical cryptography, so all of this comes as a surprise to me. But something called the Copiale Cipher from the 18th Century has been cracked...
From Putting People First
Energy consumption in the home
The Danish Alexandra Institute (see also previous post) published in 2009 an anthropological user study of needs, motivations and barriers in relation to energy...
From Schneier on Security
Demands from Law Enforcement for Google Data
Google releases statistics: Google received more than 15,600 requests in the January-June period, 10 percent more than the final six months of last year. The requests...
From Putting People First
The Internet of Things comic book
The Danish Alexandra Institute has just released a comic book called “Inspiring the Internet of Things,” which explains the benefits of networking everyday objects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing How Doctors and Patients Interact
I have been examining exactly this question recently. Is it as simple as SMS messages? My doctor has a problem with the privacy issue.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter & Gamble's Pixel Visualization Room
From the SAS ComBlog: A description of an effort at Procter & Gamble to provide data visualization and analytics support: "... P&G colleagues collaborate in what...
From Putting People First
Audio of EPIC 2011 presentations
The organisers of the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry (EPIC 2011) conference have posted audio of the keynotes and most of the presentations. The conference took...
From Schneier on Security
Twofish Mentioned in Thriller Novel
I've been told that the Twofish encryption algorithm is mentioned in the book Abuse of Power, in the first paragraph of Chapter 3. Did rhe terrorists use it?...
From Putting People First
Want to create a great product? First, forget
User-friendliness is the inevitable result of a smart design approach, not the starting point. Robert Hoekman, Jr lists three criteria to help you develop a useful...
From Putting People First
Intentional environments: designing a culture of co-creation
Elements such as social dynamics, communication styles, and creative inspiration deeply affect our experience of work and what we create. While most of us don’t...
From The Eponymous Pickle