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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
Tablets in Manufacturing
In Computerworld: The iPad takes on manufacturing The iPad, darling of the consumer crowd, dares to get gritty as Pfizer and other companies try it out in industrial...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Summer Social Webshop
The following is a special contribution to this blog by
From Schneier on Security
Screenshots of Chinese Hacking Tool
It's hard to know how serious this really is: The screenshots appear as B-roll footage in the documentary for six seconds
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 August 2011
Hurricane Irene was the big news on the east coast of the US and parts of the Caribbean last week. Oh and there was a surprising east coast earthquake last week...
From Wild WebMink
? The Social Media Chorale
Chatting with Jill earlier, I ended up watching this TED talk by composer Eric Whitacre: Which led me to his Virtual Choir project, which I found exceptionally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Crowd Sourcing Difficult Tasks
Another post about MobileWorks. A favorite topic that we attempted to utilize with the capabilities of the time, but without great success. " ... Enabling software...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 August 2011
Hurricane Irene was the big news on the east coast of the US and parts of the Caribbean last week. Oh and there was a surprising east coast earthquake last week...
From Wild WebMink
UK Public Holiday Monday
Just in case you’re not aware, the UK has its end-of-the-summer public holiday tomorrow so none of your UK contacts will be at work (unless they’re hiding out in...
From Putting People First
Kids today need a licence to tinker
Forget the dysfunctional approach of the national curriculum, we need to open young minds to the creative possibilities of computing, writes John Naughton in today’s...
From Putting People First
What marketing executives should know about user experience
A strong experience strategy, derived from qualitative user research and experience workshops, can bring a collected vision to your organization and not only identify...
From Putting People First
A long-wave theory on today
Historian Elin Whitney-Smith looks at previous periods of disruption to understand what companies (and people) are going through today. “According to Elin Whitney...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Timed Automata and Scheduling Resources
A largely technical article in the CACM that reminded me of the complexity of scheduling and resourcing activities in real time. " ... The problems of time-dependent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Smartphone is Listening in
A post on Apps that can listen in and determine what you are watching on TV. We will start to see more of this sensor-based application that can understand your...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Sets to Shut Down
The curiously interesting 'Google Sets' feature will be shut down on September 5. We experimented with this when it was first released. It provided a form of...
From Michael Nielsen
Visiting Europe
I’ll be in Europe for the next couple of weeks, giving talks about open science. I’m interested in adding more events to my schedule, so if you’re interested in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Riot Psych
Fascinating overview with links on some late research on crowd psychology. Do people lose their individulaity in a crowd as is popularly found in film and literature...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Viability of QR Codes
Good thoughts in Mashable about the viability of QR Codes. I think that ultimately they will be a transitional technology, like all bar codes, but there is considerable...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
SSTD 2011 Vision & Challenge Track Winners Announced
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Shashi Shekhar and Mohamed Mokbel, faculty in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Market and Hurricane Preparedness
M J Perry writes about how companies like Wal-Mart and Home Depot can deliver predictable disaster materials through the magic of the modern supply chain. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle