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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 Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Conversations in Kodu
Recently the Kodu team announced a new version of Kodu and a new Kodu Community Website. You can read a lot of the details at Announcing the Kodu v1.2 and the Kodu...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Growing Trust
In August USACM submitted comments on the draft green paper
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Inspired by Nature
Bio-mimicry is innovation inspired by nature. We explored it to broaden the potential solutions to difficult problems we encountered. A good introduction here...
From Putting People First
New Master in UX in Rome, Italy
The La Sapienza University in Rome is organising the first User Experience Master for students who already have a previous degree. Although a highly laudable initiative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G and Innovation
In the local press: P&G's CEO Bob McDonald gives an urgent call to action to improve innovation. Particularly speaks to the local culture of innovation. I agree...
From Putting People First
Investigating the experience of love for products
“Shoes, cars and other love stories: Investigating the experience of love for products is the title of the doctoral dissertation (and a book!) by Beatriz Russo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton on Kindle vs iPad
Short piece on the match up. The economics of the price and the channel implications will make a difference.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NASA to Run International Space Apps Challenge
Late last month, NASA announced that it plans to run an International Space Apps Challenge in 2012, bringing together officials from international space agencies...
From Schneier on Security
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. The website has some sample things you can do to to celebrate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Quality of Testing and Quality of Code
I see a good number of Tweets in my Twitter stream that just flash by without leaving any impression. Chatty comments between people I barely know (if at all),...
From Wild WebMink
? LibreOffice Is One
I seem to have been using it for ever, but LibreOffice is actually just one year old. I’ve written a sketch of its story and a first-year evaluation over on ComputerWorldUK...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Financial Times Tablet Edition
I used to often read the Financial Times when I was in the enterprise. Liked the quirkiness of their coverage. I recently rediscovered it and they have created...
From CERIAS Blog
Gene Schultz, R. I. P.
Sunday, October 2nd, Earl Eugene Schultz, Jr. passed away. Gene probably had suffered an unrecognized stroke about two weeks earlier, and a week later fell down...
From Wild WebMink
? Birthday Treats
On its first birthday, LibreOffice has reason to celebrate After a year of work, the extensive global LibreOffice community is now showing signs of the strength...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AdWeek Exploration of Neuromarketing
A good general exploration of neuromarketing by AdWeek. Primarly about fMRI and which supports its further exploration and combining with classical market research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
KYield Facebook Page
Kyield, with which I am aligned, has a Facebook page here. " ... Kyield is an enterprise software company that revolutionizes the digital work environment through...
From Schneier on Security
Isaac Asimov on Security Theater
A great find: In his 1956 short story, "Let's Get Together," Isaac Asimov describes security measures proposed to counter a terrorist threat: "Consider further...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where to Begin with Predictive Analytics
A good general article on the topic by James Taylor. " ... Discover the problems that will show the greatest return on an investment ... Yet most companies are...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science