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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
Individualized Pricing
The NYT discusses how and why people can be given individualized prices for goods. If course this has been done for a long time. Through promotions. Loyalty...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarming Drones
Boeing demonstrates swarming drones. Which reminds me of long ago projects that looked at how simple,uni-purpose, cheap and even disposable robotics could be...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dumpling Squid
The sex life of the dumpling squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
Termite Suicide Bombers
Some termites blow themselves up to expel invaders from their nest.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Seeking RAPID Proposals on Tsunami Debris Field Threats
Several directorates within the National Science Foundation (NSF) — including Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) — issued a Dear Colleague...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Natural Language Analysis
Of Interest: Another DARPA example I have just examined. Automated, deep natural-language understanding technology may hold a solution for more efficiently processing...
From Wild WebMink
Influence vs Control
My article for InfoWorld this week considers three different projects – OmniOS (derived from Illumos, the new name given to OpenSolaris), GitHub and OpenStack –...
From Schneier on Security
11-Year-Old Bypasses Airport Security
Sure, stories like this are great fun, but I don't think it's much of a security concern. Terrorists can't build a plot around random occasional security failures...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Public Sector TechBytes Series
http://aka.ms/fzytjrTopicTechBytes Windows 8 Development for Government, Healthcare...
From My Biased Coin
Distracting Videos
Jeff Erickson gets the blame for pointing out this amusing/disturbing video on counting. I feel like I should make it a background video before my undergraduate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
One Best Supply Chain Metric
In the Supply Chain Digest. David Schneider suggests that the one best supply chain metric is Operating Cash flow, or OCF. I admit I had to think about that...
From Schneier on Security
Rolling Stone Magazine Writes About Computer Security
It's a virus that plays AC/DC, so it makes sense. Surreal, though. Another article.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet”
An interesting article on Wired.com today, featuring Google computer scientists Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat: Time and again, we hear the story of Xerox PARC,...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A New Way To Solve Linear Equations
Impossible but true: a new approach to linear systems Prasad Raghavendra is an expert in many aspects of complexity theory, especially the foundations of approximation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Alumni Bookstore
Received:If you haven't already found it, take a look at the P&G Alumni Bookstore. Books published by your fellow alumni. Just go to the Book Directory tab on the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Science Behind Curiosity
There’s been a lot written about NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory this week, in light of its successful landing on the surface of Mars early Monday morning — including...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Entity Analytics
On entity analytics. An explanatory video. "... If you haven’t heard IBM Fellow Jeff Jonas talk about how the right algorithm can help you figure out who’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Praises Facebook
Marc Pritchard touts the use of Facebook in the Olympics 'Thank You Mom' campaign as a perfect storm ... Good example of the use of integrated social media. ...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Benefits of Being a GHC Community Volunteer
This year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is drawing nearer and nearer, and our call for Community Volunteers has gone out! I was a volunteer each...
From Schneier on Security