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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
Gamma Rays in Lightning
Antimatter signatures, gamma ray flashes, have been detected in terrestrial lightning storms. Don't recall this ever having been mentioned before. New safety implications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scratch Programming for 'All'
In CACM, the evolution of a programming language for all. I have looked at the Scratch site, but have not tried it for a real application. My argument to these"Digital...
From My Biased Coin
Ranking
An anonymous commenter asked an insightful question, worthy of a real answer: "Hi Prof, Why are you so obsessed with ranking things?"*Honestly, I don't think I...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Data Security Bills
In a markup session yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved two bills on the protection of consumer data. S 1490, the Personal Data Privacy and Security...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Metagenomics and the Computing Challenges of Microbial Communities
Why should you care about microbial communities? Except for viruses, they are the most abundant life on Earth and have an overwhelming effect on our environment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Near Real-Time Flu Tracking at CDC
I was involved with a project that sought to use retail data to do something similar. With the potential to use it for epidemics or bioterror detection and tracking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Limits of Social Media Marketing
A cautious piece about social media marketing. Its more than just starting up a free presence and expecting people to engage.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Entrpreneurial Resources
Useful: In Inc. Top Entrepreneurial bloggers and in Mashable: useful tools for Entrepreneurs.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Sets up Indian Analytics Center
In my early days in the enterprise we worked directly with IBM to use their optimization software and resources to solve tough analytics problems. Over the years...
From Computational Complexity
Button Button
Here is the offer: If you press the button you will receive $200,000. The caveat: Someone you don't know will die. I was born during run of the original Twilight...
From My Biased Coin
FOCS/STOC and Asymmetry
I had a funny conversation with Madhu Sudan yesterday, with him relaying an idea he said he heard from Umesh Vazirani (and perhaps the trail goes on further from...
From Schneier on Security
The Doghouse: ADE 651
A divining rod to find explosives in Iraq: ATSC’s promotional material claims that its device can find guns, ammunition, drugs, truffles, human bodies and even...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Financial Aid
This post will talk about Harvard's financial aid program, and why it's a perfectly good thing to give money to Harvard, despite what you might read in the New.I...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science in Practice
Seen in the stairwell of the Purdue Student Health Center... Robb Cutler CSTA Past President
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Choice Perception
From O'Reilly: ' ... Individual perception of increased choice can occur while the overall choice pool is getting smallerThis gem from Whimsley makes the point...
From The Eponymous Pickle