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Governance and Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Governance and Big Data

In SiliconAngle:  Good introductory piece on the topic.  How do you control the data and analyses you do with your big data?" ... The past week witnessed a number...

Learning From the Code Hunt Dashboard
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Learning From the Code Hunt Dashboard

This week I am in Redmond WA at a two day workshop around Code Hunt being run by Microsoft Research and the developers behind Code Hunt. After day one I can say...

Gershenfeld on a New Digital Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gershenfeld on a New Digital Reality

Interesting Edge conversation with Neil Gershenfeld of MIT.  We connected with him there a number of times in the early days of remote manufacture.  That world...

National Academies Report on Bulk Intelligence Collection
From Schneier on Security

National Academies Report on Bulk Intelligence Collection

In January, the National Academies of Science (NAS) released a report on the bulk collection of signals intelligence. Basically, a year previously President Obama...

Who Else Listens To Your TV?
From Wild WebMink

Who Else Listens To Your TV?

Samsung’s Smart TV listens to everything you say all the time you have voice control enabled. No surprise there. But Samsung’s Terms warn that it’s likely to be...

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NIST Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam

The Global City Teams Challenge, an initiative by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and US Ignite, is designed to advance the deployment of...

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 9

February 11: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing titled “The Connected World: Examining the Internet of Things.” 10 a.m...

Emotional Targeting Board
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emotional Targeting Board

Mediabrix announces an emotional targeting advisory board.  From the neuromarketing buzz connections.  An interesting move.  Though I note there is no one on the...

Big Data Predictive HR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Predictive HR

It has been common to use data analytics in HR for years.  Here in Bloomberg, predicting when you are going to quit your job.  Some interesting details.

Machine Intelligence and Genetic Codes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Intelligence and Genetic Codes

Addressing the recipe's that convert codes to tasks.Machine Intelligence Cracks Genetic ControlsEvery cell in your body reads the same genome, the DNA-encoded instruction...

Interesting Links 9 February 2015
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 9 February 2015

I’m back in Redmond WA today. First time in over three years I have been here. I expect it to feel different as a visitor after being hear many times as an employee...

Real Time Analytics is Critical
From The Eponymous Pickle

Real Time Analytics is Critical

Says Cisco. I agree.  I would slightly alter it and say 'as real-time as necessary'.   But what is necessary is changing  rapidly.  Not too long ago data would...

From Computational Complexity

Pros and Cons of students being wikiheads

A wikihead   is someone who learns things from the web (not necc. Wikipedia) but either learns things that are not correct or misinterprets them. I've also heard...

Tradeoff Analytics Services
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tradeoff Analytics Services

Have been examining some of the Watson services announced last week.    These are available free (with limited amounts of data) with registration on the Bluemix...

Recursion – Love it or hate it?
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Recursion – Love it or hate it?

The following was posted to the AP CS Facebook page yesterday with the question "What would the answer be?" Things went along just fine for 3 replies of people...

Crowdsourcing with the Gamification of Tasks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crowdsourcing with the Gamification of Tasks

Notes on Choosing Tasks in a Job to Improve or Replace with Gamification (Published elsewhere) When doing business process modeling (BPM) you connect a group of...

Samsung Rolling out VR Demo
From The Eponymous Pickle

Samsung Rolling out VR Demo

In Engadget: Another entry into the VR space.  Available for demonstration this week.  Head mounted displays that are not meant to be unobtrusive.  Focused, perhaps...

Teaching Data Visualization with Legos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Teaching Data Visualization with Legos

Interesting means of teaching incremental representation of data.  I have seen lots of bad visualization in journalism lately.  I would hope they would be able...

Resolving Time Travel Paradoxes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Resolving Time Travel Paradoxes

In the SciAm:  Not really a technological issue as yet, but an interesting logical point about science and time.
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