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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
Weave Data Visualization into Your Business
Excellent overview piece on the topic, which makes the point that the business process must be woven into the quantifications and visuals, a favorite topic of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Communicating Data
In the HBR: Data needs to be gathered, understood, communicated and embedded in the decision process. You need quant people to make this happen. This article"...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Presentations from the Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored the Simons Institute Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing. The three-day symposium brought together...
From Schneier on Security
Evidence that the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata
Interesting speculation that the NSA is storing everyone's phone calls, and not just metadata. Definitely worth reading. I expressed skepticism about this just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Feedly Replaces My Google Reader
In anticipation of Google's Reader RSS shut down in a couple of weeks I have moved to the free Feedly service. Both as an App and in Chrome. Works well, and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Code.org Video Released
Code.Org has just released a new video promoting computer science that may be especially effective for creating broader public awareness among policy leaders and...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Hashing and the Birthday paradox: a cautionary tale
If you meet a stranger, the probability that he will have the same birth date as yourself is probably less than 1%. It is roughly 1/365 if you make simplifying...
From Computational Complexity
Fraud or not ?
For each of these, are they frauds? The Turk was a chess playing ``computer'' (around 1770) that was later discovered to be cheating--- a human made the moves...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consequence of EU Tightening Data Privacy Further
A good Adage Article on how the revelations of massive private data leaks could make the EU further tighten data privacy. What does this mean and and what are the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 17
June 18 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the nominee to head the Federal Communications Commission, Thomas...
From Schneier on Security
Project C-43: A Final Piece of Public-Key Cryptography History
This finally explains what John Ellis was talking about in "The Possibility of Non-Secret Encryption" when he dropped a tantalizing hint about wartime work at Bell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Takes IT Work from India
Via my UK consultant, in the India Times. P&G aims to cut down outsourced IT work in India. A surprise which is making Indian vendors nervous.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategy's Tough Choices
Came late to my inbox. In the HBR's blog in late May. Former and current P&G's CEO AG Lafley on Strategy's Tough Choices. A video.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Community Consortium Announces New Council Members and Executive Committee
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed five new members to the Computing Community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fracturing of Corporate IT
In CIO Insight: Different and becoming more so. Not going away, as some say, standards and security still need to exist. But the nature of enterprise IT is changing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization Startup
First I had heard of this. A simple to use solution by former Facebook employees. Probably for everyday visual data solutions. See Polychart.
From Schneier on Security
Blowback from the NSA Surveillance
There's one piece of blowback that isn't being discussed -- aside from the fact that Snowden killed the chances of a liberal arts major getting a job at the DoD...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 June 2013
First Monday of “summer vacation” and my grading is done and have been submitted. You know what that means! Yep, working on my lesson plans for August. Two brand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Networked Things
A good overview of the current state of the network of things. Which points back to our own experiments with networked refrigerators, in that nexus of the modern...
From CERIAS Blog