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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
Taking On Personal Assistants
Last week it was Jeopardy! superstar Ken Jennings who was facing competition. This week it’s assistants everywhere. In the second in a fascinating series of articles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media and Small Business
Useful short piece in E-Commerce Times:" ... So how can something with that much influence be easy and unintimidating for a small-business owner to use? There's...
From Wild WebMink
? Science Fiction Made Real
No Sleep ‘Til Fusion Wonderfully written story from Quinn about low-budget experimentation with fusion reactions. (tags: Fusion Energy Science Story) Live map of...
From Schneier on Security
Security Trade-Offs in Crayfish
Interesting: The experiments offered the crayfish stark decisions -- a choice between finding their next meal and becoming a meal for an apparent predator. In...
From Apophenia
Risky Behaviors and Online Safety: A 2010 Literature Review
I’m pleased to announce a rough draft of Risky Behaviors and Online Safety: A 2010 Literature Review for public feedback. This Literature Review was produced for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Game Lab - Classroom Kit
The Kodu team has just released a classroom kit of Kodu resources. If you are thinking about using Kodu either in a summer program or with students in the fall...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Bad Times and Good Times in Georgia
It has been a hard year for computing teachers in Georgia. Many school districts are operating with reduced budgets and have cut teachers. Even though Georgia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Geofencing
Geofencing is a kind of virtual alert system based on a geographical line or lines drawn on a map. So if you wanted to determine if a person entered a particular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
This Blog and How it Relates to What I Do
This blog in various forms was initially established to communicate to innovation center visitors starting around 2002. This blog's readers include executives and...
From Schneier on Security
TacSat-3 "Hyperspectral" Spy Satellite
It's operational: The idea of hyperspectral sensing is not, however, merely to "see" in the usual sense of optical telescopes, infrared nightscopes and/or thermal...
From Schneier on Security
WikiLeaks
Long, but interesting, profile of WikiLeaks's Julian Assange from The New Yorker. Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. He and his colleagues collect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Openness Audit
Heard Charlene Li talk today introducing concepts in her new book: Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Change the Way You Lead. Some excellent points. In...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stories Sell
In Roger Dooley's Neuromarketing blog: Why Stories Sell. With some links to previous posts on the subject. Certainly they do sell, and are much more memorable than...
From Computational Complexity
Talking about your work with a layperson
How to best describe what we do to the layperson? It depends on what you mean by layperson. I was in Austin Texas visiting my nephew Jason. I was also giving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scented Spaces
Discovered! An excellent site and scented spaces blog by Tracy Pepe on scent design. I am following, check it out. See also her recent post on CPG scent branding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Terms
A useful glossary of social media terms. Terms in play are always changing, worth knowing.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-24
Marten Mickos says open source doesn't have to be fully open This was the received wisdom among the senior VPs at Sun just before the fall of the company. While...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Close to ISTE Time
I am starting to put stuff together to take with me to ISTE this weekend. I get in Sunday sometime and already have a dinner meeting set up. And some stuff do to...
From Putting People First
Content strategy and the future of the online experience
Two new articles in UX Magazine: Fusing content strategy with design by David Gillis Context maps and content flow diagrams are just two possible ways to integrate...
From The Eponymous Pickle