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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
Unmasking the Puppets
From New Scientist and ACM: An experimental method to unmask sock-puppets (usually phony paid commenters, reviewers or contributors) based on the way they write...
From My Biased Coin
Easy Now
In the past year or so, I've gotten reviews back on multiple papers with the complaint that the result was too simple. My interpretation of review: sure you might...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 18
November 19 Hearing: The House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on the data security of the Healthcare.gov website. 1o a.m., 2318 Rayburn...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Not all citations are equal: identifying key citations automatically
Suppose that you are researching a given issue. Maybe you have a medical condition or you are looking for the best algorithm to solve your current problem. A good...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg, & Beastie Boys "Princess Machine"
This video is so beyond awesome that it deserves its own blog post. I may or may not have shed a few tears watching it. Keep on kicking butt, GoldieBlox. We need...
From Schneier on Security
Explaining and Speculating About QUANTUM
Nicholas Weaver has a great essay explaining how the NSA's QUANTUM packet injection system works, what we know it does, what else it can possibly do, and how to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 November 2013
I made a quick trip to Tucson AZ over the weekend for the CSTA Board meeting. Beautiful part of the country and I wish I had more time to explore it. But meeting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Chair Susan Graham is named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy
President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate two new members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy (PCAST). The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Six Degrees of Connection to P&G
After publishing a item about an infographic I liked, about products we buy, it was pointed out that some of the data was incorrect. That is true. But I wasinfographic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive AI Apps in the Cloud
More on the IBM giving access to Watson technologies to allow the building of cognitive Apps in the cloud. A good direction. The App style of infrastructure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Business Models
In the HBR: Indicating that they constantly audit their business model. Which has led to increases in the number of US warehouses, and their recent proposal to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Health Care Information
In Freebeacon: How can social media information be mined for indications of health related behavior? " ... Specifically, NLM will look at the “value of tweets...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Seeking CS Education Leaders for Board Positions
As we approach the start of the new calendar year, it is time to start the CSTA Board of Directors nominations and elections process once again. CSTA is a member...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trolling IKEA
In Adage: We have an Ikea store nearby. The number of items they have is so large that it is hard to believe anyone can recognize one that is out of place. So...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defensiveness in Communications
In the HBR: I like this argument about not being defensive in communications. Found myself in this position. And has some practical methods to implement it that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data is Decentralized
An aspect I had never thought about very much, but very true. " ... Let’s look at IT in a simple way. There are users, there are applications, there is hardware...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Graph of Math
The last part of our interview with Gödel two years ago src Kurt Gödel is said to have been a latecomer to appreciating the power of Model Theory. He was of course...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishermen Seen from Space
Cool photo. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security