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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
Beauty of Near Misses
Todd Henry in Accidental Creative on the Beauty of Near Misses. " ... how often do I curse my fate when things don
From The Eponymous Pickle
Share of Wallet Isn't Enough
Professor Byron Sharp, Director of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute sends along a link to his post on this subject. I also like his comment: "... One of the...
From Schneier on Security
Journal Article on Cyberwar
From the Journal of Strategic Studies: "Cyber War Will Not Take Place" (full article is behind a paywall): Abstract: For almost two decades, experts and defense...
From Putting People First
Digital product strategy, gamification, and the evolution of UX
Greg Laugero writes about two trends that have recently entered the realm of digital product development. First is the incorporation of gaming concepts into products...
From Computational Complexity
Journals
What is the purpose of an academic journal? To provide a permanent vetted record of a specific research endeavor. The ways we communicate scientific research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics in Action: Office Depot Price and Promotion Optimization
An excellent example of the use of business analytics to improve business process. I gave a talk to a corporate client just yesterday on the integration of data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine
The latest Analytics Magazine from Informs. Full of useful articles including: The Value of Business Analytics, Strategic Data Management Yields Competitive Advantage...
From Putting People First
Jawbone releases UP, a wristband for tracking your wellness
Priced at $100, the device is a leap for Jawbone. And its aimed at nothing less than making its wearers happier and healthier. Fastco Design reports. “The UP wristband...
From Schneier on Security
Underage Children on Facebook
Interesting research on how parents help their children lie about their age to get onto Facebook. One reaction to our data might be that companies should not be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twenty Five Dollar Computer
A very minimalist, business card sized, computer. Aimed at technical education. The way I understand it monitor and keyboard are extra. I have been intrigued...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jim Goodnight of SAS on Business Analytcs
Always interesting Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, spoke at the Kelly School of Business. Some of my past colleagues were on the included panel." ... Mark Zozulla said...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Museum Street Views
Streetview lets you look into some museums and look at the art. An interesting move forward in virtualizing real spaces.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Course Blogs vs Wikis
If you're a professor or TA for a course and want to use online technology for the betterment of your students, which is superior: a course wiki or a course blog...
From My Biased Coin
This Week, We Were Doing Security
If you look on Yelp's engineering blog (http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2011/10/output-filtering-failure.html), you'll see Yelp's VP of Engineering, Michael Stoppelman...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customized Subscriptions to Staples
In Mashable: Something we looked at in the early years of cell phone based shopping lists. Subscriptions to staples can be a powerful concept.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better to Call than E-Mail
In the HBR Blog, email may be easier, but it is less impactful:" ... But the bigger need is just for more live conversations to occur, period. This is especially...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Can You Reconstruct Shredded Documents?
That’s the question being posed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which recently announced
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Sorting Algorithms Do Beginners Need To Learn
Do beginners even need to learn sorting algorithms? Let
From The Noisy Channel