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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
Master Class on the Science of Human Nature
In The Edge: This looks very good. " ... Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman on the marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking; Harvard mathematical biologist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd Sourcing Open Innovation with Lego
From Innovation Excellence: " ... Yes, you gotta love Lego! Not only is the company doing amazingly well during this
From Computer Science Teachers Association
I'll Have Some AppInventor with My Java, Please!
I jumped on the AppInventor bandwagon at a workshop at SIGCSE 2010 and believed that my students would really enjoy building apps for Android phones as much as...
From Apophenia
Six Provocations for Big Data
The era of “Big Data” has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and many others...
From Schneier on Security
Risk Tolerance and Culture
This is an interesting study on cultural differences in risk tolerance. The Cultures of Risk Tolerance Abstract: This study explores the links between culture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cosmetics of Youth
A piece in the local paper about a scientist at P&G that is working on Olay solutions." ... As a senior scientist at P&G's Miami Valley labs, her work won't even...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching at Girl Develop It Ottawa's Kickoff Event
Girl Develop It: "Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it." It's exactly what the Ottawa community needs: a way to engage professional...
From Computational Complexity
Conventions in Math- just to make the rules work or more?
Why is a1/2 = sqrt(a)? true? To make the rule ax+y=ax a y work out. Why is (∀ x ∈ ∅)[P(x)] true? To make the rule (∀ x ∈ A ∪ B)[P(x)] iff (∀ x ∈ A)[P(x)]...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-09-14
The Great Copyright Conspiracy Laid Bare It will come as no surprise to anyone reading here regularly, but there may be some that still don't realise their political...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Changes their Algorithm
Algorithmic improvements at Google. Its good to watch what Google is doing to know what you are getting. Are you getting more quality sites today? I find myself...
From Schneier on Security
TSA Administrator John Pistole on the Future of Airport Security
There's a lot here that's worth watching. He talks about expanding behavioral detection. He talks about less screening for "trusted travelers." So, what do the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Scientists Among PopTech
Last month, PopTech — a nonprofit network of innovation experts based in Camden, Maine — announced its Science and Public Leadership Fellows, a small number of...
From My Biased Coin
SODA Accepts -- The Count
People in various have been noting the SODA accepts, but nobody has been talking about the numbers. I count 138 papers accepted. I can't find now how many submissions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
OneRiot Joins WalMart Labs
In a new development., in Techcrunch. Also see OneRiot's Blog. " ... Walmart has acquired OneRiot, a mobile and social ad targeting startup. Financial terms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Products for an Internet of Things
In GigaOM. I have observed quite a bit of product design, and except for slapping a standard bar code on an item, and testing that code with a number of hand scanners...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Perspectives Seminar
I attended the IBM/SPSS seminar today. Jason Verlen, Director of IBM/SPSS gave the keynote address that well positioned the use of predictive techniques in business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and Specialized Analytics Appliances
An interesting development. A number of such applications are addressing real time applications that gather large amounts of information.SAP rolls out new in-memory...
From Schneier on Security
Human Pattern-Matching Failures in Airport Screening
I've written about this before: the human brain just isn't suited to finding rare anomalies in a screening situation. The Role of the Human Operator in Image-Based...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
You Think That Users are Faceless Objects? You are Obsolete!
IT departments fail us because they are founded on the technocratic imperative. Users are faceless objects for which the system is designed (Iivari et al., 2009)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog