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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 Computational Complexity
Answers to the Prez Quiz, and some interesting history
I posted a presidential quiz (that is, a quiz about presidents, not a quiz that is so majestic it can be called presidential) on Thursday Jan 21.Here is the link...
From insideHPC
12th JLESC Workshop to Be Held Feb. 24-26
The 12th annual Joint Laboratory for Extreme Scale Computing (JLESC) will be held virtually from Wednesday, Feb. 24 to Friday, Feb. 26. It will bring together researchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patenting a Chat Bot of a Particular Person
The idea has been suggested before, here with slightly different capabilities. Interesting depending hw well it could be implemented. With image and realistic...
From Schneier on Security
Massive Brazilian Data Breach
I think this is the largest data breach of all time: 220 million people. (Lots more stories are in Portuguese.)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Camera Based Automated Drone Landing
Seems a simple action, but can be complex in different contexts. Novel Camera-Based System for Automated Landing of Drone on Fixed SpotShibaura Institute of Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LiDAR Space Scanning, Modeling and Enabling
Some time ago attended a brainstorming session on the use of 'space scanning' to support advertisements and other future AR functionality. Well the time is now...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Upcoming Due Dates
Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 16, 2021 The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computer and information...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does Bad Code Lead to Good Learning?
Last week a teacher posted an interesting problem. They were looking for an explanation of why to code produced the answer that it did. The code is this: static...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intellectual Property Analysis
Connects to some of my recent work. Categorizing and usefully measuring what we have. Google proposes applying AI to patent application generation and categorization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anomaly Detection with Lacework
Brought to my attention: Lacework covers topics and issues around threat defense, intrusion detection, cloud containers, workloads, accounts, devops, and more.Anomaly...
From Schneier on Security
Insider Attack on Home Surveillance Systems
No one who reads this blog regularly will be surprised: A former employee of prominent home security company ADT has admitted that he hacked into the surveillance...
From insideHPC
Yash Technologies Partners with ScienceLogic AIOps, Digital Transformation
Chicago, Jan. 25, 2021 — YASH Technologies, a global technology services and outsourcing provider, announced a partnership with ScienceLogic, an AIOps platformYash...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Traffic Wait
Not a new thing but does it do it better with novel situations? Would be a good thing to experiment with to see how new patterns are adapted to.Optimizing Traffic...
From Putting People First
Online exhibition: Design in an Age of Crisis
The Design In An Age Of Crisis Gallery features submissions to a global open call issued in 2020 by Chatham House and London Design Biennale, inviting radical design...
From Putting People First
The Scottish Approach to Service Design (SAtSD)
The vision for the Scottish Approach to Service Design is that the people of Scotland are supported and empowered to actively participate in the definition, design...
From Putting People First
[Book] How design makes the world
From the airplane armrest to the Facebook “like” button, and everything in between, Berkun shows how design helps or hinders everyone, and offers a new way to think...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (January 24th 2021)
Year 2020 was great for PC makers. We are selling more and more PCs. Reportedly, Sony sold 3.4 million PlayStation 5 in only four weeks, a record. The demand for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Some Key Uses for BlockChain
Nicely done use cases, not much detail, but a start.Blockchain, Unchained: 5 Key Use Cases By Joe McKendrick | November 11, 2020 in RtInsightsTo achieve success...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Partners With Rhinostics for Swabs
My former employer innovates in COVID TestingP&G Partners With Rhinostics to Take Innovative Nasal Swab to Market to Improve Speed of COVID-19 Testing Press Release...
From The Eponymous Pickle