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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 My Biased Coin
Visiting UC Davis
Before returning home last week I spent a day at UC Davis giving a talk. I got the spend the day talking to various people I've collaborated with there (likeRaissa...
From Schneier on Security
Arguing for NSA-Level Internet Surveillance
Jack Goldsmith argues that we need the NSA to surveil the Internet not for terrorism reasons, but for cyberespionage and cybercrime reasons. Daniel Gallington ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programmable Robots for Young Students
Play-I is a new start up using crowd funding to develop a pair of programmable robots for young students. I have a thing for robots. And these robots are pretty...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Math and Music
An upcoming concert and lecture on patterns in math and music. If you are nearby Santa Fe, drop in. If you need to impress on someone the relationship between...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Application Development
Creating reliable systems is still quite inefficient. McKinsey reports on enhancing efficiency and effectiveness. " ... Software has become critical for most large...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Fast is Broadband Fast
Its fairly rare that I need broadband inside a project. Yes it is certainly useful for general browsing, or up and downloading files. This Readwrite Web article...
From Computational Complexity
University of Maryland Job Posting Mentions Quantum Computing explicitly!
The University of Maryland at College Park has its job posting up (its been up for a while). You can look at it here. I It lists THREE areas but says that they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
No Such Thing as Electronic Privacy
In Compterworld: With more stories coming out about NSA, this short post explains how there is no such thing as privacy in electronics. Privacy as a delusion....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New York Times Article Highlights Computer Science Research in Medical Devices
Computer science has been an active component of medical devices for a long time, but has recently been brought to the spotlight by former Vice President Dick Cheney...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kellogg Mobile Augmented Reality Marketing
A nice example of using augmented reality in marketing by Kellogg. With music. " .... Kellogg is joining General Mills and Mondelez International in bringing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Last Chance: Analytics for Executives.
LAST CHANCE. Regional interest in the use of Analytics. Talk from successful professional practitioners. In particular suitable for executives seeking to understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Idio Platform
I noted that longtime correspondent Damon Ragusa of Thinkvine is now connected with Idio. Which "... understands your customer’s interests and intent through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Discontinuous Innovation
Manager at Unisys Posts: How do we manage disruptive trends? Some good thoughts here. Match our own experiences in the enterprise. Remembering that roughly"...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Video Games and Learning: My First MOOC Experience
Way back in the springtime I signed up for a Coursera offering on video games and learning. I had no idea when the course would actually be offered, and forgot...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 28
October 29 Markup: (Rescheduled from October 24) The House Homeland Security Committee will review pending legislation, including H.R. 3107, the Cybersecurity Boots...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Doing Data Science
Now available for order: Doing Data Science Paperback by Cathy O'Neil, Rachel Schutt: I like the general premise, do not have yet:" ... Each chapter-long lecture...
From Schneier on Security
Understanding the Threats in Cyberspace
The primary difficulty of cyber security isn't technology -- it's policy. The Internet mirrors real-world society, which makes security policy online as complicated...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 October 2013
The first quarter at my school closed last Friday. The year seems to be flying by. I guess it is true what they say about time flying when you are having fun. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise and Big Data
On Enterprise Big Data: some good points made here. There is still relatively little understanding, and thus investment in the techniques. This is not new, it...
From Putting People First