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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
World Peace via Vending Machines
A curious project from Coke using vending machines to promote world peace. Would they then need a vending App too?
From My Biased Coin
Update: Andrew Auernheimer Watch
Well, this is going to give me nightmares for a while. TechNewsWorld:"Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker known as "Weev," was sentenced Monday to 41 months in prison...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Framing Devices With an Interactive Twist
You may recall that I recommended inklewriter as one tool for testing story ideas. I recently found an interesting piece of interactive fiction made with it and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Changing Face of Education and Computer Science
Any person involved with education today can tell you that it is an ever changing field. What was common place just a few short years ago has been replaced by something...
From Schneier on Security
A 1962 Speculative Essay on Computers and Intelligence
From the CIA archives: Orrin Clotworthy, "Some Far-out Thoughts on Computers," Studies in Intelligence v. 6 (1962).
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Pioneers of the Internet and World Wide Web Receive Inaugural QE Prize for Engineering
Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, Sir Tim Berners Lee, Marc Andreessen, and Louis Pouzin were awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering today at the Royal...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 18
March 19 Hearing: The Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Electronic...
From Wild WebMink
Royal Charter or Star Chamber For Stars?
Alec Muffett points out that the new Royal Charter being rushed through the UK Parliament includes some drafting that appears to drag blogs, Twitter and other social...
From Schneier on Security
Prison Escape
Audacious daytime prison escape by helicopter. The escapees have since been recaptured.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sands Partners with NVISO
Just announced. A natural interaction for neuromarketing work. Surprised it it not more often done. Directly linking facial imaging with neuroscience technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization and BI Tools
Useful comments on the selection process. Again, I look for methods that do the most common things easily and directly. Ignore all the flash, all the visualization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Privacy
At a dinner last night had a heated conversation about how they were abandoning Facebook for privacy concerns. Professionals refusing to join as a result.Here ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 March 2013
Posting this a bit late today. I had a very busy weekend which included some snowboarding. That means I was much too tired and sore yesterday to get this ready....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is genetically engineering intelligence worth it?
We have been hearing reports that China is planning to use genetic engineering to make its population smarter. In fact, there are claims that China has been practicing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Suicide Notes
Locally a good example of predictive text analysis. Mining a large corpus of suicide notes at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital, to model and predict when suicide...
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The Longest I Ever Sit Still
At the end of 2012, after months of extreme travel, extreme work, and extreme play, I craved balance. When I went home for the holidays I dusted off the copy of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data in Wal-Mart's DNA
Gib Bassett of Teradata sends along a link to an article about Wal-Mart's use of Big Data. Nice detail that can be instructive to others in this space. If anyone...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy St. Patrick’s Day—Again and Again and Again and Again
Leprechauns are tricky even when they’re not Neil L. is a Leprechaun. Today I wish to share my experience with him this morning of St. Patrick’s Day. Neil L. has...
From The Eponymous Pickle