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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
When Something Helpful Comes Along
You never know where a resource is going to come from. We have a retired guidance counselor that is back subbing in our building this month. He sought me out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flow Powered Reality
Artificial Reality powered shopping:" ... A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) ... announced a new iPhone app: Flow Powered by Amazon....
From Putting People First
The Jawbone UP fails, but teaches 3 golden rules for experience design
Cliff Kuang, editor of Co.Design, used the Jawbone UP for a week, and can’t recommend it. “The wristband itself is superbly designed: The slight oval shape and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Queries Beta
Big Queries in Beta via Google. " ... Google wants to help you crunch big data like cornflakes.To that end, it is opening up BigQuery, the service is designed...
From Wild WebMink
Big May Not Be Better
Price myths persist long after their time. A decade after the popularisation of open source for business use, I’m still hearing the idea espoused that it’s safer...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: David Hawking on Search Problems and Solutions in Higher Education
This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the September issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engaging the Crowd with Hall
A new way to engage the crowd. Vote, chat, interact. Existing halls about Startups, Apple, Ruby, ESPN, SEO, NFL etc. Start your own halls. A little like Twitter...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
More Stanford CS, Entrepreneurship Courses Go Online
This fall, Stanford
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Data Mining
Good broad article on the topic of consumer data from [email protected]'s ever-expanding cache of online data is a store in more ways than one. Every tweet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Raw Data into Information
Turning Raw Data into Actionable Information. A New blog by Michael Tarallo. A business intelligence professional formerly at Pentaho. Includes a recent post...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Ben Greene on Large Memory Computers for In-Memory Enterprise Applications
This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at
From Wild WebMink
Open Rights Group on FLOSS Weekly
Tomorrow (November 23rd) I’ll be visiting Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group (the UK’s answer to the EFF), and interviewing him on FLOSS Weekly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Attention Taken
Eye embedded screens on contact lenses have been in the news lately. This is not a new idea, we experimented with screens that could be flipped in front of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Center for Spices
I like the idea of innovation research centers. Here, in an unrelated space: McCormick Science Institute explores the health benefit of spices. Not about retail...
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