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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
Simons Research Fellowships Post
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post a note about the Simons Research Fellowships positions at Berkeley. But since that's where Justin Thaler (my now-ex student)...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Toward Star Trek economics
Characters in the Star Trek universe often claim that their future Earth has abolished money. Everyone gets what he needs and nobody works for money. Unfortunately...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Model of Persuasion
In Neuroscience Marketing: " ... The Persuasion Slide™. In short, it’s a simple model for persuasion that encompasses a variety of conscious and non-conscious factors...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Career Technical Schools and Computer Science
Over the years I have gotten involved with a number of career technical schools in New England. Several in New Hampshire where I live and several in Massachusetts...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Slides from 'Coherent Emergent Stories in Video Games' / GHC13
I gave a talk at this year's Grace Hopper on what I've been working on for my thesis project:Coherent Emergent Stories in Video GamesCrafting satisfying narratives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Alternative Fueling Stations Visualization
A good interactive data visualization from Tableau. In their public gallery. This would have been useful for a study I did a few years ago on the effects on the...
From Schneier on Security
SecureDrop
SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower support system, originally written by Aaron Swartz and now run by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The first instance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Economics of Advanced Analytics
Shu Schiller, correspondent and Wright State professor, will be giving a talk at the upcoming Teradata conference. Link below for more information about the1463...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DunnHumby Seeks to Invest in Cincinnati Startups
As they progress with their downtown US Headquarters facility:" ... Look for data analysis firm Dunnhumby’s new seed-stage venture fund to invest in CincinnatiPress...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spreadsheet Day is Today
A correspondent reports that today is spreadsheet day. " ... in honour of the date that VisiCalc was first shipped, way back in 1979. ... " I used to teach Visicalc...
From Computational Complexity
2013 Fall Jobs Post
Time again for the annual fall jobs post. As always the best places to look for academic CS positions are the job sites at the CRA and the ACM. Also check out the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualization in CPG, Current and Future
In Progressive Grocer: Good overview of virtualization in the Consumer Package Goods (CPG) industry. Aisles, stores, shoppers and even profit landscapes can be...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Software Partnership Meeting on October 17 at U.C. Berkeley School of Law
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will hold a Software Partnership Meeting tomorrow, October 17, 2013, from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific Time, at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insurance Companies Love the Quantified Car
As you might expect. All analytical methods, especially those that seek to predict, are by their nature data hungry. Sensors can feed those techniques to lead...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Subconscious Mistakes We Make
In Fastcompany: Very often seen in the enterprise. Even from very smart people. The confirmation bias, mentioned first, is a common mistake researchers make....
From Schneier on Security
iPhone Sensor Surveillance
The new iPhone has a motion sensor chip, and that opens up new opportunities for surveillance: The M7 coprocessors introduce functionality that some may instinctively...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Hour of Code Launches in San Francisco
Yesterday, Code.Org hosted an event in San Francisco to launch the Hour of Code program first introduced at the 2013 CSTA annual conference and in Myra Deister's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Ships from Inside P&G
Not surprising, this has now been going on for years. Still not enough volume to upset Wal-Mart? " ... Amazon has placed its workers in seven Procter & Gamble...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Radical New Teaching Method?
Aspects of AI inspired learning theories. Heavily technology driven. Now further enabled by MOOC. A kind of self organizing approach that assumes that children...
From Schneier on Security