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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
Flavor Delivery
A classic problem, can flavor be delivered with digital stimulation? Research has been doing on for a long time. Getting to the Bottom of a Digital Lollipop...
From Schneier on Security
How the NSA Tracks Mobile Phone Data
Last week the Washington Post reported on how the NSA tracks mobile phones world-wide, and this week they followed up with source documents and more detail. Barton...
From Computational Complexity
Approximate Computing
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh is the newest professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Hadi works in computer architecture and did some great work on dark...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensors are Impacting the Supply Chain
Yes, they have for a long time. My domain for many years. But many new methods are now influencing the space. GigaOM explores. An extensive report I am reading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics Evolution in R
Good, general non technical piece from Ventana Research. It is an evolution, with many people not understanding the issues in its use. " ... R, the open source...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Tracks People Using Google Cookies
The Washington Post has a detailed article on how the NSA uses cookie data to track individuals. The EFF also has a good post on this. I have been writing and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does Computer Science Count in Your State?
Computer science only counts as a graduation credit (usually in either math or science) in 15 states. In most states a computer science class can be an elective...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSEDWeek Highlights at ASMSA
Like schools across the country, we are celebrating Computer Science Education week here at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts (ASMSA) in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau 8.1 and R Introduction
In exploration for a project that requires the use of some advanced analytical methods developed in R which would then provide access to the results interactively...
From Apophenia
Data & Society: Call for Fellows
Over the last six months, I’ve been working to create the Data & Society Research Institute to address the social, technical, ethical, legal, and policy issues...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating for Success
In Fortune: My early work with analytics was building simulations systems at the Pentagon. This article describes well how this is done in Defense. And its improved...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Cell Phone Signals
Had always wondered what the RF space would look like. Here an attempt at visualizing how complex the coverage of RF looks like today. Some of the commenters...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Be Careful With People Anaytics
HR analytics have been much in the news and in my investigations of late. Here some cautionary notes. What parts of HR can be constructed as a science? It...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wireless Charging in RF
New developments in wireless charging. Most methods today use inductive technologies these use radio frequency. I wonder about RF interference here. We examined...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House and National Science Foundation Proclaim Computer Science is for Everyone!
As part of Computer Science Education Week, Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation at The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Facebook creating new Research Lab in Artificial Intelligence
It was announced on December 9, 2013 that Yann LeCun from NYU will be heading a new research lab at Facebook focused on Artificial Intelligence. LeCun posted on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Requires Small Steps
In E-Commerce Times: A reasonable piece. The idea requires both handling the data and the application of the analytics that result. Analytics requires you to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ontology and Big Data
An interesting case of combining Ontologies and big data, in a slide show. Using health data as an example. Ontologies are shared vocabularies as they relate to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson