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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
Packaging and Consumer Choice
An interesting case study in Knowledge @ Wharton regarding packaging design at Heinz and how innovative packaging can be transformational in very common and 'old'...
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Tom Davenport Looks at MoneyBall
Information and analytics in Baseball and Industry. Games have always been a good way to think about business and how to apply technical methods. A good look...
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Agile Business Intelligence at Guess Inc
An intriguing case study of business intelligence at Guess. The concept of agility. Agile BI: Good but Not EnoughAt Guess Inc., BI Director Bruce Yen embraces...
From My Biased Coin
Allerton 2011
I woke up at an absurdly early hour this morning to get on a plane and go to the Allerton conference. I'm giving a talk this afternoon on Invertible Bloom Lookup...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accidental Creative
Todd Henry of Accidental Creative on Realism, Ambition and Hypocracy. See his excellent book: The Accidental Creative.
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Google Wallet
An overview of the recent Google Wallet rollout. It is still early, but we will start to see more phone based payment systems. The future will be a collection...
From Computational Complexity
A candidate for a new Millenium Problem
In a prior post I wrote that the Erdos-Turan Conjecture should be a Millennium problem. Today I am going to (1) suggest a generalization of the Erdos-Turan Conjecture...
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Bob Herbold's New Book and Blog
I have noted this before, but my boss at Procter & Gamble, Bob Herbold, was our SVP and later spent seven years as the Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft. He...
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Data Mining Health Problems
As we gather more data about health conditions, it is natural to look at the relationship over time between these sensory readings and conditions. And also the...
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Smartphone Based Brain Scanning
Another interesting sensory application: " A team of researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have developed a portable EEG system powered byEmotive...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Fish Fly
How excited am I about the Partners in Learning Global Forum? I
From Wild WebMink
Think Before You Give!
Should You Donate To Open Source Projects? Donating money to your favourite open source project may not be the first thing you should do. Support the sources of...
From My Biased Coin
Set Competition
As an applied probability exercise, I had my class compute empirically the probability of a game failing on the nth round for the game of Set. (See my previous...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Games as a Great Starting Point
I'm always looking for new ways to start off my computer science and robotics classes. It used to be that every intro class started off with a "Hello World" program...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablets Likely to Come Out After Dark
New statistics reported on tablet use. I would agree, I often use tablets as a 'second screen' as an auxiliary information device for TV or Radio. Can that fact...
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Innovation by Embracing Failure
In the WSJ: A friend sends me a good article on how companies are addressing risk aversion in edgy economic times. Includes mention of outright rewards for disclosed...
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Text Analytics for Legacy BI
Always interesting Doug Lautzenheiser discusses in his business intelligence blog the use of text analytics techniques to search code libraries in enterprises for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson