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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 My Biased Coin
Housework
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article up titled Time Crunch for Female Scientists : They Do More Housework Than Men. Worth reading, understanding, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HP's Wall of Touch
Another example of 'walls' of information, which we experimented with extensively. Think of it as also useful for creating certain '2D environments' like the store...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meaning of Client Silence
Peter Bregman on silence. Have we all not experienced this?. What is the useful reaction to client silence as the most dangerous form of feedback?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Company IT at NRF
Storefrontbacktalk reports on a number of big company IT leaders at NRF and their innovation views.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
It's a Great Day for CS!
Ever since Computer Science Education Week, I couldn't help but notice all the positive signs that have come through my email about what a great time it is to teach...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Packing Intelligence in a Tweet
James Kobielus looking at the business intelligence value of Twitter. I still see Twitter as an alert leading to more information. Sometimes all of the intelligence...
From Computational Complexity
Should CCC2012 be at the North Pole?
The last few posts on ICS in China have lead to off-topic (though maybe they were not off topic) comments on whether we should have conferences in countries who...
From Schneier on Security
Privacy Violations by Facebook Employees
I don't know if this is real, but it seems perfectly reasonable that all of Facebook is stored in a huge database that someone with the proper permissions can access...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft at TCEA
In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading down to Austin Texas for the annual TCEA conference. This is one of the biggest and best (we are talking Texas after all) educational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics for Humanitarian Logistics
Just added to Analytics Magazine, a short article and podcast on the use of logistics analytics in the Haiti earthquake. Linked to the Center for Humanitarian Logistics...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 18
January 20 Hearing: The House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on the reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act, taking testimony from business...
From Schneier on Security
Eavesdropping in the Former Soviet Union
Interesting story: The phone's ringer is a pretty simple thing: there's a coil, a magnet and a hammer controlled by the magnet that hits the gongs when there is...
From Putting People First
Book: Pervasive Information Architecture
Pervasive Information Architecture – Designing information space in ubiquitous ecologies is a book being written by Andrea Resmini and Luca Rosati for Morgan Kaufmann...
From Apophenia
Whose Voice do you Hear? Gender Issues and Success
Growing up, I loved to debate. With anyone. My debating tone used to drive my mother batty because she thought I was yelling at her. Exasperated, I would often...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
From Kobe to Haiti
Today, January 17th, is the anniversary of the 1995 Kobe, Japan, earthquake which killed over 6,000 people. I am in Japan, ironically, accepting the Motohiro Kisoi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Loyalty and Brand
Walter Riker, colleague at Procter, writes in Curious Voyager about brand loyalty being killed by the brand.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Food While You Watch
Laurence Hayward, of the Venture Lab sends along a report from their newsletter about a number of new ideas that manufacture fresh food concepts in stores while...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overzealous Spam Filter Found
I just noticed that the blog spam filter has been classifying too many messages as spam and that several useful comments had been blocked. I approved the comments...
From The Eponymous Pickle