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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 Schneier on Security
World War II Anecdote about Trust and Security
This is an interesting story from World War II about trust: Jones notes that the Germans doubted their system because they knew the British could radio false orders...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do we need academic copyright? Some historical perspective
It is commonly believed that we introduced copyright to entice authors into producing lots of quality work by providing them with increased financial incentives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Common Cognitive Traps in Innovation
In the HBR: (Requires free registration): Key point being made is that estimation error can be a key skill for building innovation. Always try to build numerical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1 Consumer Goods Newsletter
We were long time participating members of the standards body called GS1. I now only sometimes read their writings. Beyond standards they often talk about retail...
From Apophenia
Email Sabbatical: December 13-January 10
I call this year my year of triplets. Over the last few months, I had my first child, finished my book, and kickstarted a research institute. In planning this year...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redefining Supply Chain
As part of a century and a half old, very successful enterprise, we had a supply chain group from well before I arrived there. It is essential to make the modern...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Faces of Computing Poster Contest Winners
In honor of Computer Science Education Week, CSTA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2nd annual Faces of Computing student poster contest. This year, over...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flavor Delivery
A classic problem, can flavor be delivered with digital stimulation? Research has been doing on for a long time. Getting to the Bottom of a Digital Lollipop...
From Schneier on Security
How the NSA Tracks Mobile Phone Data
Last week the Washington Post reported on how the NSA tracks mobile phones world-wide, and this week they followed up with source documents and more detail. Barton...
From Computational Complexity
Approximate Computing
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh is the newest professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Hadi works in computer architecture and did some great work on dark...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensors are Impacting the Supply Chain
Yes, they have for a long time. My domain for many years. But many new methods are now influencing the space. GigaOM explores. An extensive report I am reading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics Evolution in R
Good, general non technical piece from Ventana Research. It is an evolution, with many people not understanding the issues in its use. " ... R, the open source...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Tracks People Using Google Cookies
The Washington Post has a detailed article on how the NSA uses cookie data to track individuals. The EFF also has a good post on this. I have been writing and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does Computer Science Count in Your State?
Computer science only counts as a graduation credit (usually in either math or science) in 15 states. In most states a computer science class can be an elective...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSEDWeek Highlights at ASMSA
Like schools across the country, we are celebrating Computer Science Education week here at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts (ASMSA) in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau 8.1 and R Introduction
In exploration for a project that requires the use of some advanced analytical methods developed in R which would then provide access to the results interactively...
From Apophenia
Data & Society: Call for Fellows
Over the last six months, I’ve been working to create the Data & Society Research Institute to address the social, technical, ethical, legal, and policy issues...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating for Success
In Fortune: My early work with analytics was building simulations systems at the Pentagon. This article describes well how this is done in Defense. And its improved...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Cell Phone Signals
Had always wondered what the RF space would look like. Here an attempt at visualizing how complex the coverage of RF looks like today. Some of the commenters...
From The Eponymous Pickle