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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
GitHub and Open Source Licenses
Are you ar risk if you use code from GitHub? There’s a lot of code shared on GitHub. But surprisingly, much of it is “all rights reserved”, meaning despite being...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking by the Syrian Government
Good article on how the Syrian government hacked into the computers of dissidents: The cyberwar in Syria began with a feint. On Feb. 8, 2011, just as the Arabmanifesto...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Day With a Windows 8 Slate
One the the farewell presents from Microsoft (actually something I won in a company promotion) was a Samsung Series 7 slate running Windows 8. It’s a very nice...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does Big Data Mean?
Michael Stonebraker continues his useful set of of articles on the meaning of the term, which directly includes the volume part, but where we frequently forget...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Power of 15
We all have them, it is the rare person who doesn't. I am talking about those dreaded days were our energy is low, where we can't get started, where even the simplest...
From Schneier on Security
Advances in Attacking ATMs
Cash traps and card traps are the new thing: [Card traps] involve devices that fit over the card acceptance slot and include a razor-edged spring trap that prevents...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Proof Overtime Is Bad
I am against overtime. I do as little of it as possible. And now I have proof that this philosophy actually makes sense!The Sleeping Geek Kitten - Angers - / Nathonline...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Barriers to P=NP Proofs
Why TSP resists being mapped to a small linear program Sebastian Pokutta just gave a beautiful colloquium talk on proving lower bounds on the size of linear programs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Shopper Feedback
In Progressive Grocer: How BJ's is using a real-time shopper feedback system. " ... BJ's Wholesale Club is using a survey platform from On The Spot Systems that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sales: Amazon vs Wal-Mart
In Adage: A competitive interaction that we are likely to see more of. As you might expect, some demographic layering here.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Recent Developments in Deep Learning”
Scientists have seen significant progress in developing software that can perform human activities like seeing, listening and thinking. A New York Times article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Columbus Ohio IBM Analytics Center
Announced today. Columbus, Ohio event. Brought to my attention recently and of interest. There was an online video session today I was unable to attend. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurons Interact without Synapses
We were all taught that brain neurons interact through synapses. Now apparently, at least in some cases, they can communicate without using synapses. A study...
From My Biased Coin
STOC Goings-On
Joan has permitted/encouraged me to post on the STOC PC process this year. So far, all seems to be running smoothly. Despite pre-conference suggestions by some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Do You Want To Make?
As I mentioned yesterday (Cool Toys For Teaching Software and Engineering) I am attending the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference this week. Not a lot of computer...
From Putting People First
Nestor’s World, a Belgian social design tool
The full service design agency Pars Pro Toto in Ghent, Belgium built the “Wereld van Nestor” [Nestor's World], a social design tool meant to help local governments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots for IPad
IEEE Spectrum has just published an publication App that surveys a number of robots and robotic applications. This appears to be only available for the iPad systems...
From Computational Complexity
App Love
First a shout out to our friends up north on the 30th anniversary of the New York Theory Day this Friday. Just two years ago I wrote a post Gadget Love but now...
From Schneier on Security
James Bond Movie-Plot Threats
Amusing post on the plausibility of the evil plans from the various movies.
From Putting People First