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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Submissions – 8th Extreme Scaling Workshop: The Intersection of Big Data and Large-Scale Computing
The National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Blue Waters and eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) projects are hosting the 8th Extreme...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel as Operating System for Big Data
Intel wants to be the operating system for Big Data. Interesting thought. They had better understand the analytics of it. It is not just about the hardware. "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loyalty Optimization with Bayesian Networks
Another interesting example of the use of Bayesian networks for data mining. via Stefan Conrady of Bayesia. Nice understandable draft tutorial. " ... Identifying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Head Mounted Displays in Works
In CWorld: Based on supplier comments, this seems to be in the works. Is the future now wearables and head mounted, augmented reality style displays? And notably...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Getting good performance in Go by rewriting parts in C?
Go is a new programming language invented by Google engineers. Apparently, it came about because they were tired to wait for their C++ code to compile. To run Go...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IT Hiring Slowing
In ComputerWorld: By my own unscientific view as well, talking to several big hiring companies. Caused by continuing uncertainty about the economy, and thus unwillingness...
From Putting People First
anthropology + design: nicolas nova
Rachel Carmen Ceasar (@rceasara) is a doctoral candidate in the Joint Medical Anthropology Program at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco (California, USA). She writes...
From Schneier on Security
The Insecurity of Secret IT Systems
We now know a lot about the security of the Rapiscan 522 B x-ray system used to scan carry-on baggage in airports worldwide. Billy Rios, director of threat intelligence...
From Putting People First
An ethnography of the Brixton Pound
Mario Campana (@mariocampana), a PhD student at City University London’s Cass Business School, researches the growing trend of local currencies – of which there...
From Putting People First
Interview with man at the heart of Facebook ethnography kerfuffle
Tricia Wang interviewed Daniel Miller, the anthropologist at the heart of the Facebook ethnography kerfuffle, and published the transcript on EthnographyMatters...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Seeing Atoms
How can we possibly see atoms? John Sidles is a medical researcher and a quantum systems engineer. His major focus is on quantum spin microscopy for regenerative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning in Neural Nets
General outline and technical detailed article in the WP about deep learning in neural nets. And further about deep learning in general: " ... Deep learningDeep...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netflix Using Distributed Neural Nets
In the enterprise we actively used artificial neural nets to perform various scoring functions for analytical learning methods. They were particularly useful for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ultra Simple User Interfaces
The best user interface should predictively anticipate our needs. Focus us on the right data and tools to do our job best. Feed us the proper sensor readings...
From Schneier on Security
GOPHERSET: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: GOPHERSET (TS//SI//REL) GOPHERSET is a software implant for GSM (Global System...
From Putting People First
Exploring new markets for Firefox OS: mobile and internet behaviours in Central Europe
Experientia has lately been doing a lot of work on mobile OSes, from feature evaluations of some of the more interesting new arrivals, to comparisons of some of...
From Putting People First
Qualitative research in industry – videos from the Qualitative 360 Asia Pacific conference
Qualitative 360 Asia Pacific 2013 took place in Singapore in November 2013, and some videos are now available: Winning with shoppers via qualitative research [23...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford Autonomous Vehicle
A look at an autonomous vehicle prototype by Ford. When will the vision of fully autonomous vehicles become common? Still wonder the liability issues.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Companies vs Amazon or With Them?
In Retailwire:" ... Are CPG companies consciously deciding to align with the logistic powerhouse of the future instead of the distribution giants (brick-and-mortar...
From Putting People First