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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
Microsoft Retiring SHA-1 in 2016
I think this is a good move on Microsoft's part: Microsoft is recommending that customers and CA's stop using SHA-1 for cryptographic applications, including use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart v Amazon
The last battle? In Knowledge@Wharton. For dominance in retail. " ... In the retail realm, it’s a clash of the titans: Walmart, the world’s largest retailer,But...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
One Way to Study for Exams
For both my classes, I put together a study guide that included some general tips on studying as well as what topics to focus on. Since the general advice works...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blending Data is Good
It has been some time since I looked at the vendor Pentaho. Examined it for use in the enterprise. I noticed that they have something called the data blend of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AmStatNews highlights CCC as Influential to the Research Community!
A post this week in AmStatNews, the membership magazine of the American Statistical Association, is a ringing endorsement of CCC’s activities: “On the topic of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Breaking New Ground: Robot Rings NASDAQ Closing Bell
On Tuesday, November 12, 2013, the first non-human rang the closing bell on the NASDAQ stock market. A robotic arm was selected to ring the bell to mark the launch...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DB Pedia
Can a semi-structured text database like the Wikipedia be used to extract structured data? This is the goal of the DbPedia: " ... DBpedia is a crowd-sourced community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Georgia Tech on Wearable
What are the cultural and social aspects of wearable computing? A Ga Tech researcher addresses. While I agree this is an issue, you could, and some did make the...
From Schneier on Security
Another QUANTUMINSERT Attack Example
Der Speigel is reporting that the GCHQ used QUANTUMINSERT to direct users to fake LinkedIn and Slashdot pages run by -- this code name is not in the article --reacted...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Google Code-in 2013
This went out to the CSTA Member mailing list tonight. Thought it was worth sharing. Beginning Monday, November 18th, 13-17 year old pre-university studentsgoogle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
2013 Business Intelligence Symposium
Register now to attend the 2013 Business Intelligence Symposium offered through the Center for Business Analytics in the Carl H. Lindner College of Business atThe...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Life is short: pick good ideas!
Some of us work hard to generate new ideas. All of us train on how to implement ideas. But our days look like this: I have 100 ideas. I write down 50 of them. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Millennials and Shopper Marketing
In Smartblogs: The rise of the omni-channel shopper in the millennial. The link below is also of interest and new to me." ... The Coca-Cola Company sponsors this...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptographic Blunders Revealed by Adobe's Password Leak
Adobe lost 150 million customer passwords. Even worse, they had a pretty dumb cryptographic hash system protecting those passwords.
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Drives Internet Traffic?
Mostly Netflix and Youtube. Not surprising, being heavily used video resources. While I am a litte surprised at this: " ... Meanwhile, peer-to-peer file sharing...
From Computational Complexity
Four answers to the Recip problem
In my last post I asked you to solve the following question which was from the Maryland Math Competition: The inequalities 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/6 = 1 and 1/2 + 1/3 +...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyc, the Enterprise and Wikipedia
Recent research had me take a look back on the Cyc project, which we had examined during our AI explorations. We talked to Lenat's Cycorp. The system promised...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multi Modal Drones
In Wired: As you might expect, the primary uses here are military. " ... This Drone Can Fly, Swim, Drive, and Hop Its Way Through a Mission .. " But it points...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Architecture
Thinking Future architecture. " ... Doing Enterprise Architecture is different from managing other type of IT or business project, as it includes from abstract...
From Schneier on Security