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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 Putting People First
The ABC of behavioural change
Jodie Moule, a psychologist and co-founder & director of Symplicit, an experience design consultancy based in Australia, describes on Johnny Holland what it takes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Delivers
Mashable reports that Amazon is about to start a grocery delivery service. Convenient but pricey.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Passive vs Active in English
I don't usually cover language details here in this blog. When I took writing courses in the enterprise I was taught to carefully avoid the 'passive voice', and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Industrial Engineering of Business Services
The term ' Industrial Engineering' struck me in an Ecommerce Times article. IE is part of my background, and I have seen it applied in many areas, even services...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Tamper-Evident Devices
At the Black Hat conference lasts week, Jamie Schwettmann and Eric Michaud presented some great research on hacking tamper-evident seals. Jamie Schwettmann and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Future Applications
Curious about investment and other applications using recorded future? They link to a blog and podcast on the subject that is informative.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Does "Fewer Failures" Translate to "Greater Success"?
I was watching the local (New jersey) news channel earlier this school year when something caught my attention: "The percentage of failing grades in a NJ school...
From Schneier on Security
Brute-Force Safecracking
This safecracking robot tries every possible combination, one after another: Combination space optimization is the key. By exploiting of the mechanical tolerances...
From Computational Complexity
Why My Kids Trust Wikipedia
Guest post from Annie and Molly Fortnow Our teachers used to tell us not to use Wikipedia because anybody can edit it and therefore it isn't trustworthy. A couple...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 January 2011
I have a good bunch of links this week. Actually a wide variety of them. I hope you find some of use to you. Microsoft
From Wild WebMink
Another RockStar at ForgeRock
You’ll recall that ForgeRock (where I work) launched the OpenIDM project back in October. One of the key control points in enterprise software is the provisioning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foodspotting What You Eat
FoodSpotting: Intriguing idea for Foodies like me. You take a picture of a plate of food on an IPhone App where you are and add a capsule review. I have known...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kitchen Cooking Autonomously?
Well, sort of. Gorenje's IChef is another example of a kitchen of the future idea we experimented with and examined many examples of. It fails the same way...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Isolating People
In the Guardian. There is lots of writing lately on how how technologies can increasingly isolate people. It can bring far apart people together, but also isolate...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-23
Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android | ZDNet Ed Burnette takes a look at the allegation from a lobbyist that Google is guilty...
From Putting People First
Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US
Twitter and Facebook don’t connect people
From Michael Nielsen
Awesome grants
Beginning this month, every month the Toronto Awesome Foundation will give away $1,000 for someone to do something that
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reality is Broken
Just brought to my attention: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World: by Jane McGonigal. Saw some interesting things she...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson