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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Describing Computing Research Challenges
In the past year, we’ve developed a set of brochures describing fundamental computing research challenges in a few areas of national priority, including healthcare...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What does it mean?
Last week I had the chance to hear Douglas Rushkoff talk at the annual CSTA CS&IT Symposium. All of the conference attendees were also given a copy of his book ...
From Wild WebMink
? Heading West To SFO
Heading West To SFO, a set on Flickr. A delightfully clear afternoon flying across Nevada to San Francisco allowed me to take some splendid photographs. Check out...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What the Internet wants me to read (summer 2011)
Last week, I asked on Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus what I should read over the summer. Here is a quick summary of the recommendations I got: On Twitter: A...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Overview of Business Intelligence (BI) Technology
In CACM: A very good definition and overview of BI. In my own conversations with executives and other decision makers, I have seen considerable confusion in this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does G+ Mean for Search Marketing?
Very detailed and interesting look at the apparent behind the scene motives for Google's jumping into Social. And this point, apparently successfully so ... "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kyield and In Memory Databases
Mark Montgomery of KYield writes about HANA and KYield for better outcomes. (HANA is a high performance in-memory database product from SAP. )" ... Data Speed...
From Wild WebMink
? Pie Charts In The Plains
Pie Charts In The Plains, a set on Flickr. Flying from Chicago to San Francisco today I was struck by the fact that there were bar charts, pie charts and many...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
PCAST Discusses Future of Scientific Research
In a public session last Friday, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) spent time discussing the future of scientific research in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computable Document Format
Wolfram Research announces a new document called the CDF. In an intriguing development the new document, is computable. I like the general idea. There were...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free P&G Virtual Beauty App
This was something we explored a number of times, starting with CD Rom based delivery, then from the Web, then including in-mall camera kiosks. Has the time of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring Game Dynamics Talk
Gave a talk at Cincinnati Continuousweb last night to about 50 people. Thanks to all that attended. Nice assortment of startup and corporate types attended. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Killing Labs?
I have been impressed with what has come out of Google Labs. True that only 10% is useful to the average user, but that is not a bad percentage. And I am sure...
From Computational Complexity
Delay for a Postdoc
Suppose you have a tenure track offer at the University of Southern North Dakota and a postdoc offer at MIT. Tenure track jobs are hard to get so you want to accept...
From Schneier on Security
Is There a Hacking Epidemic?
Freakonomics asks: "Why has there been such a spike in hacking recently? Or is it merely a function of us paying closer attention and of institutions being more...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why are all programming languages in English?
Last week I was at the CSTA Computer Science & Information Technology conference in New York City. One of the great thing about events like this is the hallwayDave...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Replacement for Paper
Technology Review reports on a true replacement for paper. Very cheap and disposable too?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Practical Game Design
An overview of practical game design teaching at Drexel University. Not the kind of game I am particularly interested in, which is not so much the view ... but...
From The Eponymous Pickle