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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
Business Rules Engines
I have been asked about the use ot business rules to drive specifics of process. This came up:Welcome to Business Rule Engine. This site is a companion to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Need a Data Scientist
Good piece on the reasons why you need a data scientist to address how to use analytics for your business. In my own consulting business I get similar questions...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Vulnerability in Teaching
The status quo in university lecturing is comfortable. You capture what you know on a set of slides (often using many words - kind of a brain dump, really), and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson and Wellpoint
Another good article, this in Analytics Magazine on the application of the IBM Watson AI technology and Wellpoint Inc. " ... WellPoint, Inc. and IBM announcedQuite...
From Putting People First
PressPausePlay, a film about hope, fear and digital culture
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But...
From Computational Complexity
Bibliographies
Lots of buzz about Princeton's new policy that prevents faculty from giving away the right to publish papers on their own web pages. Never seen faculty so happy...
From Putting People First
Truth, lies and the internet
The internet is the greatest source of information for people living in the UK today. But the amount of material available at the click of a mouse can be both liberating...
From Putting People First
UX: old wine in new bottles?
Finnish researchers Antti Oulasvirta, Pertti Saariluoma, Rebekah Rousi and Jaana Leikas discuss replacing using intuitive notions of emotions with systematic psychological...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teasers from Brandwashed
Martin Lindstrom's latest book: Brandwashed has made number 8 on USA Today's bestsellers list. He sends along a flier that outlines a number of interesting topics...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Advocating on the Advocate Blog
Recently I started a 10-week contract, filling in as a Math teacher at a local high school. Naturally one of my early questions was "So what senior computing classes...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Trending Today: Life According to Twitter
There’s a new study out in tomorrow’s Science
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Site Analytics
Google Analytics is adding real time tracking to its dashboards. This will be phased in over the coming days.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kimberly-Clark Logistics
A good example of how RFID can be used to make the supply chain more efficient through transparency: " ... The consumer goods manufacturer is using a solution that...
From My Biased Coin
Allerton Part 2 : Venue Change?
Yesterday, I thought the best talks I saw were by Devavrat Shah and Dina Katabi.Dev was talking about how to track where rumors start. The model is you have aproject...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interdictive Analytics
Forrester's James Kobielus on what he is calling 'Interdictive Analytics'. Good thoughts. I had not heard the term before but it is form of predictive alerting...
From Wild WebMink
? Extension of Power
Alert To Activists: Customs Enforcement of IPR “This is a very worrying development. Borders are places with arbitrary rules, over-empowered and unaccountable officers...
From Schneier on Security
Insecure Chrome Extensions
An analysis of extensions to the Chrome browser shows that 25% of them are insecure: We reviewed 100 Chrome extensions and found that 27 of the 100 extensions...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoE
At an event in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)
From The Eponymous Pickle