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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Infinite storage: we are almost there…
Two years ago, I wrote a blog post called What is infinite storage? The blog post was a response to a Physics professor and colleague of mine who objected to my...
From Computational Complexity
Andrzej Mostowski (1913-1975)
Andrzej Mostowski was born 100 years ago today. While Mostowski worked in many areas of logic, including early fundamental work on model theory, for our readers...
From Schneier on Security
Close-In Surveillance Using Your Phone's Wi-Fi
This article talks about applications in retail, but the possibilities are endless. Every smartphone these days comes equipped with a WiFi card. When the cardpick...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Plus
For the purposes of an experiment, some posts of my blog are now being echoed into Google+ here: http://www.google.com/+FranzDill Feel free to link with me there...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Eavesdropping on Google and Yahoo Networks
The Washington Post reported that the NSA is eavesdropping on the Google and Yahoo private networks -- the code name for the program is MUSCULAR. I may write more...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Get Involved in Hour of Code 2013
Last week, Code.Org and others announced the Hour of Code to the world. Now backed by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, LinkedIn, Mark Zuckerberg, CSTA, the College...
From The Eponymous Pickle
App Stores for the Defense Enterprise
Enterprises are looking for ways to ride the ease of use and simplicity of task partitioning and integration in App stores. Even the US Department of Defense. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Design America
Samsung Putting Design First. A new era of design connectivity. " ... Dennis Miloseski, head of the design studio for Samsung Design America, said that Samsung...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focusing Effort with Data, Leveraging it with Analytics
In preparation now for a talk to local executives on the use of analytics in the enterprise I reviewed some of the work done with Business Sphere. Its been some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engineering Software Development
In Computer.org: Software development fails more often than most other engineering endeavors. How can this be better addressed with engineering principles?
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Pretending In Number Theory
A definition is often more important than a theorem Andrew Granville is a British mathematician and a world expert in analytic number theory. He came to Canada...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Continued Progress of Design Thinking
Our enterprise added a design function, and I was involved in a number of introductory meetings. There was a slight skepticism between the groups that were design...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Special Issue on Cloud Robotics and Automation, Calling for Submissions
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE-RAS) will be publishing a special edition of Transactions on Automation...
From Schneier on Security
The Battle for Power on the Internet
We're in the middle of an epic battle for power in cyberspace. On one side are the traditional, organized, institutional powers such as governments and large multinational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Variety as a Dimension
Data variety is one of the key dimensions of Big Data applications. Which are said to deal with Volume, Variety and Velocity of data. Here a post about how it...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science History
Computer science tends to be a very forward looking field. We are constantly looking at the newest things including the future of computers, of programming languages...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
We Are the Faces of Computing Poster Contest!
In honor of CSEdWeek, CSTA’s Equity Committee will be hosting its annual poster competition "We Are the Faces of Computing". This contest invites students of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G at Teradata Partners Session
Good piece that covers many of the issues of the large CPG enterprise today:Via Gib Bassett Teradata Industry PartnersLessons the CPG industry can take away from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Knows Your Shopping Habits
In Forbes: Good overview of what is fairly common practice in the use of analytics in retail/CPG today. " ... Working with dunnhumby, the customer data specialist...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog