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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
Examining A Measure of Social Connectivity
In Roughtype: A look at a study that generates a measure called NFC, or 'need for cognition', which is ' ... "a recognized indicator for deep or shallow thinking...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CNBC.com
Yesterday, CNBC.com published a slideshow of 10 products and companies that have changed the world. Calling them “game-changing disruptions,” CNBC.com reported:...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Please Vote
The CSTA Board of Directors are elected for two year terms. And, as opposed to many corporate Boards of Directors, where the vote of the individual shareholder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Yale Team Up to Teach Analytics
Business intelligence professionals are needed and companies and schools are seeking to provide the analytics training. Includes a video.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eye Preserved in a Jar
Great picture from the Smithsonian Institution.
From Schneier on Security
TED Talk
This is a surprise. My TED talk made it to the website. It's a surprise because I didn't speak at TED. I spoke last year at a regional TED event, TEDxPSU. And...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality in the Workplace
In ReadwriteWeb: Some thoughts about the value of using AR in the workplace. I agree, there is more opportunity there, since at least currently, there tends to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualize This
FlowingData previews the book: Visualize This. " ... The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics A book by Nathan Yau who writes for FlowingData...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Build Confidence
In the HBR Blog: How to Build Confidence. " ... Very few people succeed in business without a degree of confidence. Yet everyone, from young people in their first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Data, Predictive Analytics and Visualization
Good piece. Getting all the proper pieces together, making it easy to do, and then being able to interact with multiple sources, kinds and aggregations of data...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH, NSF Announce Call for mHealth White Papers
The NSF, NIH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and McKesson Foundation announced this week a call for white papers on innovative methods to accelerate the evaluation...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is science more art or industry?
In my previous post, I argued that people who pursue double-blind peer review have an idealized “LEGO block” view of scientific research. Research papers are “pure”...
From Putting People First
Mobile trends in Africa: a collaborative outlook towards 2020
A few months back Rudy de Waele (m-trends) got in touch with Ken Banks (kiwanja | FrontlineSMS) and Eric Hersman (WhiteAfrican) about helping to curate a collaborative...
From Putting People First
Book: Simple And Usable
Simple And Usable: Web, Mobile and Interaction Design by Giles Colborne New Riders, Sep 2010 Paperback, 208 pages In a complex world, products that are easy to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Academic Feedback Survey
If you are a computer science or information technology professor/instructor/teacher would you help us out as we make plans for how Microsoft can support you in...
From Apophenia
A Customer Service Nightmare: Resolving Trademark and Personal Reputation in a Limited Name Space
Yesterday, I threw a public hissy fit when I found out that Tumblr’s customer service had acted on a trademark request from a company called Zephoria who had written...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamifying Mundane and Innovative Processes
Lauren Carlson contacted me a few days ago to point out some posts in her Software Advice blog. She originally posted a very good introductory note about the idea...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Equity
There has been an increased emphasis on equity issues in computer science education in recent years, supported largely by NSF programs aimed at broadening participation...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - February 2011 (Vol. 54, No. 2)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the February issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From Computational Complexity