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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
SAP Visual Intelligence
From SAP " ... launched new data visualization software that taps into one of its standby BI releases and relies heavily on HANA, the in-memory database that
From Schneier on Security
Interesting Article on Libyan Internet Intelligence Gathering
This is worth reading, for the insights it provides on how a country goes about monitoring its citizens in the information age: a combination of targeted attacks...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
There Is More To Computing Than Computer Science
Last week Doug Peterson pointed me to an article called
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Tech Review Goes Digital First
I have read MIT's Digital Review for many years, it used to be my prime source for digital information, long before there was much rich forward looking contentMore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Analysis
For those interested in Bayesian Network Analysis as a modeling technique, I see that BayesiaLab has come out with a new version with many new capabilities. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Can be too Rational
In the Sloan Review: I agree that you can over quantify. But you should not ignore the numbers either. Its also good to think about the exogenous interactions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
English Skills for Key Contexts
Correspondent John Lucke tells me about some of the work they are doing at Carnegie Speech to increase English proficiency among airline pilots. This was written...
From Computational Complexity
Which Books to Keep?
Moving is an excuse to go through your possessions and weed out what you don't need anymore. Over my professional life I've collected two large bookcases full of...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Transcendental Aspects of Turing Machines
Mathematical effects of the Hartmanis-Stearns conjecture David Champernowne is one of a select few to have a number named for him. His number is obtained by writing...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Confusion Between Computer Science and Computer Programming
Are we getting mixed up between computer science and computer programming? Are degrees in the former trying to train more people for the latter? Is any of thisJason...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Diet Glasses
Another example of augmented reality. And an application of integrating wearable devices to adjust your sensory data view. I wonder how such a method will be...
From Wild WebMink
Standards Consultation Deadline
Please send a contribution to the UK Open Standards Consultation TODAY, before the deadline at midnight UK time. It’s really simple, as little as an e-mail if you...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST Holding BIG DATA Workshop Next Week
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)
From Schneier on Security
The Unreliability of Eyewitness Testimony
Interesting article: The reliability of witness testimony is a vastly complex subject, but legal scholars and forensic psychologists say it's possible to extract...
From Schneier on Security
Flame
Flame seems to be another military-grade cyber-weapon, this one optimized for espionage. The worm is at least two years old, and is mainly confined to computers...
From Putting People First
UX challenges when building collaborative consumption platforms
Rachel Botsman, founder and chief innovator of the Collaborative Lab (part of the Collaborative Consumption movement) writes that the biggest initial barrier to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 June 2012
This past Saturday was my 9th anniversary working full-time for Microsoft. It
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Limits of Anti Virus Software
A telling post on the topic. I recently had to deal with several episodes that were potentially the result of virus attacks. My installed software apparentlymutually...
From The Eponymous Pickle