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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
Audi Self Driving Car Brain
In MIT Technology Review: Out of the CES conference. About Audi's compact brain for a self driving car. A car driving in a physical world and driving an information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics Future is Quickly Approaching
Communications of the ACM, quoting a WSJ article: " ... The technology itself may not be as challenging as the emerging social, ethical, and economic issues, says...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retinal Displays
An idea that has been around for some time, but have yet to see it implemented usefully, is this the future? Is this wearable, or too intrusive." ... Avegant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implicit Memory
Thoughts on emotion and decision making... Is memory implicit?" ... The relatively new field of neuromarketing and the role emotions play in the decision-making...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Apply Now For Computer Science Principles Summit
The Computer Science Teachers Association just announced the Computer Science Principles Education Summit and applications are now open for the 50 available spots...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid New Year
Happy squid new year. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Apply Now For Computer Science Principles Summit
CSTA invites teachers and administrators to apply to attend a special summit aimed at broadening understanding and creating capacity for the wide-scale adoption...
From Schneier on Security
1971 FBI Burglary
Interesting story: ...burglars took a lock pick and a crowbar and broke into a Federal Bureau of Investigation office in a suburb of Philadelphia, making off with...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Shameless Plug
Our new book is finally out Cropped from EuroGP’08 src. Ronan Nugent is our editor at the publisher Springer DE. He is a combination of an acquisitions editor—or...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Congress Invites Public Comments on Updating the Communications Act
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is seeking public comments on a white paper released yesterday on “Modernizing the Communications Act.” The public comments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Presence Zones
Smarter and more personalized promotions in what are being called 'presence zones' in retail. In Forbes. Will this transform the in-store experience? Or clutter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How People Limit their Social Networks
In the early days of social media I remember this discussion about how broad one should cast their social network. A number like 40 people in their network was...
From Schneier on Security
JETPLOW: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's implant from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: JETPLOW (TS//SI//REL) JETPLOW is a firmware persistence implant for Cisco...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tuning Out In-Store Media
In RetailWire: Are shoppers tuning out in-store media? Yes, they always have. We tested a number of options in this area and the biggest issue was not hearing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where is Social TV Headed?
The direction of social TV. This has been much discussed, but seems to have gone nowhere. A look back and predictions: " ... As we wrap up 2013, it looks like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Watson Group Announcement
This Morning live. Livecast here. An engine in a cognitive system. Finally the emergence of artificial intelligence? #IBMWatson
From Computational Complexity
Is Traveling Salesman NP-Complete?
[Nina Balcan asked me to mention that the COLT submission deadline is February 7] Jean Francois Puget writes a controversial post No, The TSP Isn't NP Complete...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Student Hackathons in California
I get email from people pushing blog post ideas all the time. Several a week generally. Some of them are completely off topic for this blog. Some are close in that...
From Schneier on Security