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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
UC in Top 20 of Big Data Analytics Schools
Via Jeff Camm Dean at the OBAIS program of the University of Cincinnati who reports that " ... our MS Business Analytics program is listed in Information Week...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drop a Cam into the Network
Brought to my attention via CES: Dropcam. A way to quickly and inexpensively drop a camera into a Wifi network. And export the video to the cloud for recording...
From Putting People First
Focus groups are dangerous and kill innovation
Gianfranco Zaccai is co-founder and president of the global design and innovation consultancy Continuum. And he doesn’t like focus groups very much (and neither...
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research on vehicular design in China
Zach Hyman is based in Chongqing, China on a year long ethnographic dive into creative practices of vehicular design among resource-constrained users. After four...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Back To The Past
The role of social interaction in mathematics Charlotte Simmons started her career as a pure mathematician, later moving into the history of mathematics. She is...
From Schneier on Security
Denial-of-Service Attack Against Facebook
Just claim the person is dead. All you need to do is fake an online obituary.
From My Biased Coin
Any Good Voronoi Code Out There?
Help! I've got a wacky idea I'd like to explore (pseudo-preliminary-pre-research stage) which will require some code, namely for Voronoi diagrams. What I'd like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise and Consumer IT
Report on the crossover treatment between consumer and enterprise information technology, as presented in the CES conference. IT will have to worry about the increasingly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forrester on SAP Big Data Predictive Analytics
An SAP press release that presents their current offerings and work in the space. " ... today announced that it has been ranked by Forrester Research Inc. as a...
From Schneier on Security
Cat Smuggler
Not a cat burglar, a cat smuggler. Guards thought there was something suspicious about a little white cat slipping through a prison gate in northeastern Brazil...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Year of the Internet of Things
From Technology Review: Some thoughts about the internet of things. Everything tagged and tracked. Is that day finally here?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Library of Congress Saves Tweets
As mentioned previously the US Library of Congress is starting to save tweets. Now over 500 million a day are being archived. Researchers are already asking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
OSU, Allostatix Link to Measure Health
Some time ago I mentioned Allostatix, a company that has developed a means to construct an overall health measure, based on what is called the allostatic load, See...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Price Matching Online
In TheVerge: Target says they will start price-matching Amazon year round. As an attempt in part to defer losses to to show rooming activities of mobile enabled...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House Staff Indicates Machine-Readable Data Will Become Normal Practice; Echoes USACM Recommendations From 2009
During his appearance at a meeting of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park indicated that there...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Procedural Rhetoric and Theme in The Walking Dead
I've been thinking about procedural rhetoric and its relationship to a particular theme in a story. For example, a major theme in The Walking Dead is humanity:...
From Wild WebMink
Beating A Dead FRAND
Of course FRAND terms are incompatible with software freedom, even if you can find a project that has devised a construct to allow it to attempt to accommodate...
From Schneier on Security
DHS Gets to Spy on Everyone
This Wall Street Journal investigative piece is a month old, but well worth reading. Basically, the Total Information Awareness program is back with a different...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Reversi Sample Code
One of my earliest attempts at programming a computer to play against me was a version of Reversi I attempted some30+ years ago. Reversi is a great game for this...
From The Eponymous Pickle