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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 Eponymous Pickle
iTacit Compliance
Also brought to my attention in the area of employee engagement, training and compliance: iTacit." ... iTacit is a next-generation technology company that builds...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking Customer Conversion
A new look at the process of conversion. Good thoughts. " ... As Peter Drucker elegantly said, “the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer”. ....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Compression is never worth slowing down your code?
Should you ever compress your data to reduce memory usage? We are in 2050. Nobody uses tapes or disks anymore. The NSA has 1 billion servers. It needs so many to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Chromecast Apps
A systems developer kit for the Chromecast. Had cause to look at devices like the Google Chromecast recently for potential retail display applications. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IARPA Explores Methods to Build Human Analytical Skills
A project to which I am connected started last week. Will continue to provide updates in this space as I can.Adam Russell: IARPA Explores Methods to Build Human...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF awards grants to US-Japan partnership projects for next-generation networking technologies
In May of 2013, we reported that the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan signed...
From Schneier on Security
JUNIORMINT: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: JUNIORMINT (TS//SI//REL) JUNIORMINT is a digital core packaged in both a mini...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Distinguished Lecture – Embedded Phenomena:Technologies for Making Believe and Building Understanding
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a Distinguished Lecture on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Data Science Tookits
In Data Science Central, a post by Peter Higdon about a number of resources for the beginning data scientist. Courses, videos, definitions, etc. Usefully done...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 3
February 4 Hearing: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on data breaches and cybercrime. 10:15 a.m., 226 Dirksen Building February 5 The Commerce...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evaluating Product Pricing
On evaluating product pricing, a long time analytics methodology for retail and CPG. How can pricing be disruptive and what are the long term and short term...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Regression On Arithmetic Progressions
How far can trivial ideas go? Klaus Roth is famous for many results, but two stand out above all others. One sets limits on Diophantine approximations to algebraic...
From Computational Complexity
Contribute to the Martin Gardner Centennial
Dana Richards emailed us about a place to write how Martin Gardner influenced you. You can leave such comments here. I left a comment there, but I expand it for...
From Schneier on Security
CSEC Surveillance Analysis of IP and User Data
The most recent story from the Snowden documents is from Canada: it claims the CSEC (Communications Security Establishment Canada) used airport Wi-Fi information...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 February 2014
Starting the second week of a new semester today. Last week was interesting. It was a major adjustment because with a new group of students I had to reset my expectations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Ethnographically
On a report that has gone viral. Teens are leaving Facebook as their parents send them friend requests. " ... Comprehensive study has found teens are moving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Analytics
In CIO Insight:The future of analytics Is Streaming in the Cloud:" ... Business analytics is becoming more prescriptive and making information available in real...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discern Analytics
Just brought to my attention, with some former colleagues in its management: Discern Analytics. They write:" ... We love data. Massive amounts of it.Our cloud-based...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Fair Use
In TechDirt: Good extended piece on recent hearings on copyright and fair use. A concept often made use of in this blog. " .... It is twenty years since the...
From The Eponymous Pickle