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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 Apophenia
Pew Research confirms that youth care about their reputation
In today’s discussions about privacy, “youth don’t care about privacy” is an irritating but popular myth. Embedded in this rhetoric is the belief that youth are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flavor Intensity Ramps Up
I have noticed it for some time. The desire for increased flavor intensity has increased remarkably. The WSJ just noticed in this article.
From Schneier on Security
If You See Something, Think Twice About Saying Something
"If you see something, say something." Or, maybe not: The Travis County Criminal Justice Center was closed for most of the day on Friday, May 14, after a maneven...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Methods Look for Killer App
From the CACM: I think there are high value applications for eye tracking as the analytical capabilities for neuromarketing are focused to problems like in-store...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modern Business Plan
Seth Godin on reworking the Modern Business Plan. Some good thoughts here to add to the usual financials. " ... It's not clear to me why business plans are the...
From Wild WebMink
BCS EGM
BCS EGM The British Computer Society is in the process of being transformed into The Chartered Institute of IT. This is the wrong direction – it’s becoming a club...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Ready for ISTE
ISTE is only about a month away now. hard to believe it is so close. SIGCT is out with their annual recommendations for computer science teachers of workshops,...
From Putting People First
Mobile banking: mediated use
Jan Chipchase (frog design and until recently an acclaimed user researcher/anthropologist at Nokia) reflects on the topic of technical and textual illiteracy in...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Report from NCWIT
(Contributed by Dr. Christine Alvarado, Harvey Mudd College) The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) annual summit took place last Tuesday...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Blog Changes taking place
You may have noticed a different look to the blog today. Microsoft has migrated us all (those of us who use http://blogs.msdn.com/ to blog to the latest and greatest...
From My Biased Coin
Links to Look At
Matt Welsh has what he tells me is his most-read post ever about The Secret Lives of Professors. I'll help promote it here, but save my commentary for the comments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rapid Insight
Via AnalyticBridge, an introduction to Rapid Insight's Veera tool. Was unaware of it, but looks to be of interest for data flow approaches to business intelligence...
From Schneier on Security
Infosec Television Commercial
LIGATT Security certainly hopes to scare people.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walled Apps and the Freedom of the Net
In the NYT Magazine, an article on how they see the increasing uses of paid Apps on devices as a means of walling away quality on the Web. Certainly there are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Did We Get Mobile?
A short slideshow on the history of mobile communications. A number of interesting milestones I had not heard of.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bio Detector
A device developed at Lawrence Livermore Labs that can scan for many viruses and bacteria.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare and Newspapers
In Gigaom: Will the Foursquare location and reward idea help newspapers? ' ... The Journal announced today that readers can get news and reviews about local spots...
From Wild WebMink
? WebM Data Points
An analysis of WebM and its patent risk Carlo demonstrates that On2 must clearly have analysed the patent context for VP8 since so many of the “sub-optimal choices”...
From Computational Complexity
Parallel Thinking
Guy Blelloch from CMU gave a distinguished talk last week at Northwestern on Parallel Thinking, a take on the Computational Thinking pagadigm from his past and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson