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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
Unleashing the Power of Digital Signage
A book by Keith Kelsen I just discovered: Unleashing the Power of Digital Signage. This was a big topic of the retail innovation center. How do you successfully...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data is Scaling Analytics
It is clear that every enterprise is scaling up their gathering of data, and especially getting closer to real time acquisition. New sensors in everyone's pocket...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A History of the Emoticon
A Brief History of the Emoticon. The transferal of emotional hints remains an important and unsolved issue in electronic communications. I think it needs a further...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bookworm
A Bookworm interface for an open library. " ... Bookworm demonstrates a new way of interacting with the millions of recently digitized library books. The Harvard...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Sex Life of Deep-Sea Squid
There's evidence of indiscriminate fertilization in deep-sea squid. They mate with any other squid the encounter, male or female. This unusual behaviour, they...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Computer Science Education Act Introduced in Both Houses
Yesterday, Senator Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania) and Representative Jared Polis (D-Colorado) introduced legislation to strengthen computer science education in the...
From Schneier on Security
Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0
It's the Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS Tool, or BEAST: The tool is based on a blockwise-adaptive chosen-plaintext attack, a man-in-the-middle approach that injects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing Neuromarketing and Traditional Market Research
Traditional market research or neuromarketing methods? I have always believed that it is worth thinking of neuromarketing methods as an augmentation of traditional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ThinkVine Gets Forrester Nod
Local company ThinkVine, who I have have talked to now for a number of years, has been a leader in marketing mix and promotion analysis work,using unique simulation...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Research Snapshot for Fall 2011
For those of you wondering what the heck I've been up to lately research-wise, wonder no longer! Here's a snapshot of what I've been working on lately and planCognitive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Automation
In E-Commerce Times: A good look at what is called marketing automation. Is it science or not? Or just a way to push for attention.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education Act
One of the big issues with computer science education is that it is not an integral part of the curriculum It is almost always an elective and doesn
From The Eponymous Pickle
Practical Quantum Computing
Getting closer to practical computing. " ... Physicists find quantum versions of both feedback control and classical computer architecture ... "
From Computational Complexity
Mahaney's Theorem
Bill has a lot of posts where he questions whether to teach Mahaney's theorem in a graduate complexity class. Since it is one of my favorite theorems and most of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Apply for NSF
The National Science Foundation has issued a solicitation for its East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI), providing U.S. science and engineering graduate...
From Apophenia
The Unintended Consequences of Cyberbullying Rhetoric
We all know that teen bullying – both online and offline – has devastating consequences. Jamey Rodemeyer’s suicide is a tragedy. He was tormented for being gay....
From Schneier on Security
Three Emerging Cyber Threats
On Monday I participated a panel at the Information Systems Forum in Berlin. The moderator asked us what the top three emerging threats were in cyberspace. I...
From Schneier on Security
An Interesting Software Liability Proposal
This proposal is worth thinking about. Clause 1. If you deliver software with complete and buildable source code and a license that allows disabling any functionality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sales Motivation With Games
Just received from notable gamification vendor Bunchball. Some nice ideas embedded here, and where better to try gamification than with a heavily extroverted...
From Putting People First