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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 Schneier on Security
Possibly the Most Incompetent TSA Story Yet
The storyline: TSA screener finds two pipes in passenger's bags. Screener determines that they're not a threat. Screener confiscates them anyway, because of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G AdSpend, Facebook Linked to Layoffs
This article suggests that a not unexpected round of belt tightening at P&G is being caused by lower cost online advertising in venues like Facebook and Google...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
No Room in the Inn–I Mean Schedule
I spent yesterday at Stevens Institute of Technology, an outstanding university across the river from New York City. The occasion was a high school computer science...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
A Question About Equal Access
I am currently serving on a committee where I am the only public school K-12 educator. The other members are college educators. The educators on this committee...
From Schneier on Security
Biases in Forensic Science
Some errors in forensic science may be the result of the biases of the medical examiners: Though they cannot prove it, Dr Dror and Dr Hampikian suspect the difference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Site Visits and Store Visits
A study linking brand site web site visits and in-store spending. " ... According to a recent study, conducted by Accenture, comScore and dunnhumby USA, people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chaos of Unstructured Data
From O'Reilly Radar: Thoughts from a practicing CTO on the chaos of unstructured data." ... The heart of data science is designing instruments to turn signals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Label Cost Pressure
A good broadly ranging WSJ article. Private label prices are increasing, but they are being increasingly pushed by retailers. (Subscription)
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Announces Proposers Day for New PERFECT Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) has announced a Proposers Day for a new program — Power Efficiency...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You Applying for the 2012 US Forum?
Last summer I attended the US Innovative Education Forum in Redmond and came home quite inspired by the teachers and projects I saw. Dozens of teachers using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Half of US Shoppers Use Phones for In-Store Research
This look at a PEW report has gotten quite a bit of exposure. It was an angle we looked at very closely, even well before the Smartphone explosion. Early on we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Mining the Voice of the People
In CACM: Statistical techniques help public leaders turn text in unstructured citizen feedback into responsive e-democracy.... " Good thoughts, though I worry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Museum of Mathematics
In New Scientist: Mathematicians have launched an ambitious campaign to raise the profile of their discipline, by opening a museum of maths in the UK. Geoff Wain...
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers Update
According to my publisher, the book was printed last week and the warehouse is shipping orders to booksellers today. Amazon is likely to start shipping books on...
From Schneier on Security
British Tourists Arrested in the U.S. for Tweeting
Does this story make sense to anyone? The Department of Homeland Security flagged him as a potential threat when he posted an excited tweet to his pals about his...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 30
February 1 Markup: The Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies of the House Homeland Security Committee will mark up...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Startups
A look of a number of startups that intend to improve the use of big data. I have not looked at any of these to date, but some of the plays are interesting and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification Portal
The Community portal for the gamification Wiki has been updated. A useful place for information about the topic, vendors and examples.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Two rules for teaching in the XXIst century
Education in the XXth century has been primarily industrial: organize the workersstudents in groups under the supervision of a managerteacher. We all have been...
From Computational Complexity