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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
Brands Getting Creative with Data
In Digiday: short pieces on the use of data by companies. It is always useful to see a number of examples of systems using data. But then all systems use data...
From Schneier on Security
Identifying People from Mobile Phone Location Data
Turns out that it's pretty easy: Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Catholic University of Louvain studied 15 months' worth...
From Computational Complexity
A Century of Erdős
The great Hungarian combinatorialist Paul Erdős was born one hundred years ago today. The big celebration will happen in Budapest in July. It's hard to say more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stealth Innovation as a Solution
This HBR article suggests it is not. I suggest that stealth is one tool to get innovation done. It creates a startup style atmosphere that does not look to get...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What' Not to Love About NYC Pilot Program
In February, I had the pleasure of attending Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement of the new Software Engineering Pilot Program for New York City schools. This...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Win Five Hundred Or A Million Dollars, By Recursion?
The Erdős discrepancy problem and more source — in memoriam Raymond Redheffer was an American mathematician. He worked for his PhD under Norman Levinson, who was...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Nominations for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Nominations for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation are due Monday, April 1, 2013. The award is the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
We are getting smarter as a matter of survival
A journalism student got very depressed after reading my post on genetically engineered intelligence. His feeling can be summarized by this question: if at some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks Loyalty Data Use
In Adage: Data pours in at Starbucks, a quarter using loyalty cards. Yet much of this data is not effectively used. Sounds like most of the loyalty systems I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Analysis Requires Business Saavy
I take this further. All Business Intelligence requires some business saavy. Or a close connection with the people responsible for decisions made with the data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibco Acquires Maporama
I see that Tibco Spotfire has acquired Maporama. " ... a privately-held, cloud-based provider of location intelligence and geospatial analytics solutions ...They...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using The Cloud To Your Benefit
Molly Malone of DMI Partners writes, in a guest post:As a technology enthusiast, you’ve no doubt heard of the cloud – cloud computing, cloud-based storage, cloud...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tagging
Reminder. All new blog posts, and many older ones are now tagged. Which means that at the end of each post there are listed a set of 'Labels', underlined words...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers that Can Teach Themselves
Machine learning is a favorite topic in AI. We did that in a simple form in what was called case based reasoning. But who directs learning? Can a machine create...
From Putting People First
Human-centred systems innovation
How do we help or support people that live in situations that do not fit into a system’s categories, e.g. by transforming perceptions of what a system can be? This...
From Schneier on Security
Our Internet Surveillance State
I'm going to start with three data points. One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. governmentaccessed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 March 2013
I’ll getting my feet under me again lately. I’m catching up on grading for one thing. And lesson planning and trying to have a life away from the computer. Having...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Black Holes of Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: Some cautionary thoughts about black holes of innovation. " ... Over the past few years, companies let go large numbers of research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Asset Failure
Always good question to ask. How can I accurately predict system failure and prepare for it? Especially when failure is rare? Failures can often cascade. WeNow...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson