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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
Core of a Big Data Analytics Strategy
Big Data analytics strategy. Still think there is too much being said here, with not enough substance. Its the same problem we worked with many years ago. And...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Long Data
In Wired: When I first saw this headline, I thought, Oh, Longitudinal data. Which means you follow one agent or actor in a system and get data about them over...
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On the Importance of Seemingly Useless Work
When I first started graduate school, an older student told me about the importance of maintaining a feeling of incremental progress. Even if you are doing seemingly...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Book Explores the P-NP Problem
The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible, written by CCC Council and CRA board member, Lance Fortnow is now available. The inspiration for the...
From Schneier on Security
Sixth Movie-Plot Threat Contest
It's back, after a two-year hiatus. Terrorism is boring; cyberwar is in. Cyberwar, and its kin: cyber Pearl Harbor, cyber 9/11, cyber Armageddon. (Or make up...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
We Are the World
There have been several posts to this Advocate Blog that chat about the lack of diversity in computer science classes and STEM related fields. Quoting from Deborah...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Interstellar Quantum Computation
Proof from the Chelyabinsk bolide fragment source Viktor Grokhovsky is a member of the Russian Academy of Science’s Committee on Meteorites. He is on the faculty...
From Computational Complexity
A nice case of interdisciplinary research
All of the math and history in this post is elaborated on in my paper here. Are there any interesting applications of PURE math to the Social Sciences or History...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing and SEO
Interesting claim about Search engine optimization (SEO): " ... In the past year, Google has revolutionized the game of SEO with a series of updates known as “Penguin...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 April 2013
It’s April First which means both the real and virtual worlds will be filled with jokes and tricks and attempts to fool people. No jokes here though. I find most...
From Schneier on Security
What I've Been Thinking About
I'm starting to think about my next book, which will be about power and the Internet -- from the perspective of security. My objective will be to describe current...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Password Ring
A USB device meant to replace a password. Simple idea to use the form of a ring. We do need something new. " ... As part of research into doing away with typed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Software
I have had cause to take a look at the latest version of Tabeau Software's approach to visualization. In particular how it can be used with large columnar databases...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Huxley vs Orwell
Or 1984 vs Brave new World and Amusing ourself to death. I remember the hoopla when 1984 rolled around, and we apparently had not driven ourselves to those lows...
From Putting People First
How habits can impact user behavior
In the book The Power of Habit, author Charles Duhigg explains how habits are formed and what it takes to break an ingrained habit. The book references a 2006 study...
From Putting People First
Five things about Ubiquitous Computing that make Anne Galloway nervous
Dr Anne Galloway (@annegalloway) is Senior Lecturer, School of Design, and Deputy Head, School of Architecture, at Victoria University of Wellington. Trained in...
From Putting People First
Web privacy, and how consumers let down their guard
Consumers insist that they treasure their online privacy. But their mouse clicks tell a far different tale, as the experiments of a behavioral economist show. In...
From Wild WebMink
A New Easter Tradition
When the children were small, Easter eggs were a repeat of the excitement of Christmas. But now they are adults, I’ve decided we need a new Easter tradition that’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the New Analytic Stack
In GigaOM: Good thoughts, I am in the midst of scoping a 'big data' style poof of concept, so its useful thinking this way. " ... Spurred by infrastructural...
From The Eponymous Pickle