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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 Wild WebMink
Python Issue Slithers Away?
Looks like Python Hosting is no more. I’ve seen nothing official, but I note from veber.co.uk that the new name for their cloud hosting is Veber Cloud. My story...
From Putting People First
Lean and user experience, again
When anthropologist Natalie Hanson was asked last year to contribute to a new book called The Handbook of Business Anthropology, edited by Rita Denny and Patty...
From Putting People First
How will big data change design research?
Will design researchers (and our models and explanations) be replaced by data tables and “experience actuaries” that tell us what to build, for whom, and what it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Networks Retooling the Android
We used so-called artificial neural nets (ANN) in the enterprise over a decade ago for specific kinds of focused analysis of consumer data. Inspired by the brain's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evidence Tablets are Eroding PC Market
In GigaOM: Even a cursory observation in any airport waiting room will demonstrate this. " Naysayers may continue to ignore the trend, but tablets aren’t toys...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House Releases Strategy to Tackle Trade Secret Theft
A new White House strategy paper released on Wednesday outlines a five-pronged approach for protecting trade secrets of U.S. companies against a growing threat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Chipset
Metaio announces bringing this idea to market today. A good idea for prototyping applications of AR. I also see specialized applications of augmented reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crime Prediction with Selective Data
In GigaOm: Overview of a recent paper on crime prediction using Big Data. Nicely done, good example that whose principles can be reapplied in other domains....
From Computational Complexity
Interruptions
I got a new toy this week, the Pebble watch which I got early because I pre-ordered donated to their Kickstarter campaign. It's a little buggy and the promised...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Peer review without journals or conferences
Almost all scientists ask their peers to review their work outside of the formal process offered by journals and conferences. Young scientists are routinely told...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Testimony on “Applications for Information Technology Research & Development” to House Science Committee Subcommittee on Research
On February 14, Kelly Gaither (Texas Advanced Computing Center), Kathryn McKinley (Microsoft Research), and Ed Lazowska (University of Washington and Computing...
From Schneier on Security
More on Chinese Cyberattacks
Wow, is this a crazy media frenzy. We should know better. These attacks happen all the time, and just because the media is reporting about them with greater frequency...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Price Chopper and Vine
In an interesting retail/CPG example. Twitter owned Vine is being used by Price Chopper for marketing with six second videos.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
At the AAAS Annual Meeting, How Fundamental Computing Research Touches Everyday Lives
Last Saturday, Erwin Gianchandani, formerly the director of the Computing Community Consortium and now the deputy director of the National Science Foundation’s...
From Schneier on Security
Age Biases in Perceptions of Trust
Interesting research (full article is behind a paywall): Abstract: Older adults are disproportionately vulnerable to fraud, and federal agencies have speculated...
From Wild WebMink
Open Source Document Management
I’ve not tried a document management system before, but these videos of LibreOffice checking documents in & out of document management systems via the new CMIS...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Friendly Survey of Programming Languages
I was sitting around thinking about high school computer science curriculum last night when the idea of a programming languages survey course came to mind. I’m...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Preparing for Analytics 3.0
I like Thomas H Davenport's concise description of what he calls Analytics 3.0. Much as I dislike the numerical indexing of the approach. It is largely about ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Finds Goldmine in Analytics
In the WSJ Blogs: Thomas H Davenport describes some his findings after meeting with Procter & Gamble. Exploring P&G's long time use of the analytics technology...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science