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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
Marketing Brain Blogs
Just brought to my attention: 20 Cool Brain Blogs every Marketer Should Read. A good set of links, a number of which I had not heard of before. Will examine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flocking Science
The natural organization of animals and people, in a number of settings has been studied for purposes of evacuation, ecology and even the arrangement of retailAn...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorist-Catching Con Man
Interesting story about a con man who conned the U.S. government, and how the government is trying to hide its dealings with him. For eight years, government officials...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching, Learning and the Job Interview
I was reading a blog post by a college professor the other day (Preparing CS students for programming interviews from day one) that starts off talking about how...
From Wild WebMink
? Why You Need Document Freedom
It seems everything has a special day. Among all the various red letter days, you may not have run into Document Freedom Day, which this year is being celebrated...
From My Biased Coin
Spring Semester Update
I see it's been two months since my last post. I must admit, there are times I miss blogging. I've often felt I have something interesting to post about, butClaire...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking the Internet
In the Stanford News: A father knows best: Vint Cerf re-thinks the Internet in Stanford talk" .... He helped develop the Internet in the 1970s while at Stanford...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Video games
Some interesting news items in the past week: “The Art of Video Games” The Smithsonian Institution’s American Art Museum will debut on March 16 an exhibition titled...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Election Data and Socially Relevant Computing
There is a fair bit of discussion these days about "socially relevant computing" and how connecting computing to current issues might make it more interesting to...
From Computational Complexity
Lincoln's Dog-Tail question (in honor of Presidents Day)
(Posted in Honor of Presidents Day.) The following is NOT a trick question; however, I have heard two different answers for it. How many legs would a dogPlay...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Senior Execs Should Know What Metadata Means
Good piece in SASCom Voices (Read it all at the link): ' ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Reopens Egypt Plants
Good to see them reopening, after being closed for two weeks, they supply other demand in the middle east. More.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Video Carts
A report on the use of a video cart that amuses children with videos while pitching products to the shopper based on their location. We looked at this idea briefly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 February 2011
I spent several days in New York City as part of the program committee for CSTA
From Wild WebMink
? Is GNOME Open-By-Rule?
Dave Neary has kindly agreed to supply data for an Open-By-Rule evaluation of the GNOME Project, which develops and maintains one of the two open source graphic...
From Computational Complexity
CCC 2011 papers- you heard it here first
The complexity papers for CCC 2011 are posted HERE. (They might not be at the official CCC site yet; however, I have permission to post here.) Kudos to Omer....
From The Eponymous Pickle
New in Electronic Shelf Labels
The Venture Lab reports on funding work they are doing with an Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) startup called Tagnetics. I had worked with the predecessor of this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dan Ariely in Praise of the Handshake
Good piece by Dan Ariely formerly posted in the HBR. The implications of contracts versus handshakes.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bias Against Creatives
Is there a bias against the quirkily creative, diversity in thinking, innovation because it does not fit into the enterprise narrative? I have seen it. More....
From The Eponymous Pickle