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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
Email Overload is Intractable
In the HBR Blog. I agree. Even with filtering and careful examination, too much of it can slip through or simply gum up the works. So what can be done?
From Computational Complexity
What I Tweeted
Various thoughts not restricted to 140 characters. Congrats to Mihalis Yannakakis for his election into the National Academy of Engineering as well as new Sloan...
From Putting People First
Experientia at Ecobuild 2011 in London
Experientia will be taking part at Ecobuild 2011, March 1-3, in London, UK. Ecobuild is the world
From The Eponymous Pickle
Letting Your People Speak and Celebrate
Paul Gillin has an excellent piece in his blog where he uses the Watson-Jeopardy example at IBM to show how a company can celebrate an accomplishement publicly. ...
From Schneier on Security
Good Article About the Terrorist Non-Threat
From Reason: Know thy enemy is an ancient principle of warfare. And if America had heeded it, it might have refrained from a full-scale "war" on terrorism whose...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
FizzBuzz
Projects or exercises that lend themselves to many different “correct” solutions are just about the best sorts of learning experiences I can imagine. They really...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Plug-and-Play Macroscopes
From the ACM: Looking at complex data with visualization tools: " ... Decision making in science, industry, and politics, as well as in daily life, requires that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Education
Readwriteweb looks at the future of Open Education, and the tenth anniversary of the concept at MIT. " ... Over the past decade, MIT has shared its course materials...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numbers Rule Your World
Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung In the midst of reading this book which I have...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Bad Decisions About CS Education in Ohio
About a week ago the University of Cincinnati in Ohio announced it was no longer going to offer Computer Science as a Major. Dean Carlo Montemagno said it was a...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Social Media is subversive, but maybe not how you think
Back in 2005, Shirky argued that the Social Web offered an alternative to organizations. Working collaboratively has never been easier. And the innovation is ongoing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does Your Company Know What it Knows?
Short outline piece in the HBR on this perennially important issue. We worked on it since at least the 70s. Surprise it is still important, and largely unaddressed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Decisions Work
A good results brief from Bain & Company on making decisions work. Even if you have the right decision in hand, it also has to be operationally well implemented...
From Wild WebMink
? ForgeRock News
ForgeRock announces Australian partner I’m very pleased to say that ForgeRock has a new, full-service partner in Australia. A big welcome to FPG to the family....
From Schneier on Security
Susan Landau on Government Surveillance of the Internet
Excellent House testimony.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Important News For Imagine Cup Game Teams - 2011
I know that a lot of you have been working hard on games. I know that many of you who read this blog have students of teams who have been working very hard of games...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hidden Gems
Roger Martin of the Rotman School writes in the HBR about hidden gems in your business model. With some instructive recent examples.
From Computational Complexity
Aaron Sterling starts his own blog!
Aaron Sterling recently had an AWESOME guest post about Cheminformatics. That got such a great response that he has started his own blog Nanoexplanations. It shot...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science