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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
Shelf Retail Surveillance
In the news today. Word that a major CPG manufacturing conglomerate, Mondelez International, is expressing an interest in using cameras on store shelves to gather...
From Schneier on Security
New Secure Smart Phone App
It's hard not to poke fun at this press release for Safeslinger, a new cell phone security app from Carnegie Mellon. "SafeSlinger provides you with the confidence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
October Shopper Marketing
Always interesting online Mag. Sign up. Via Steve Frenda" ... The October issue of Shopper Marketing is a cause for celebration for those of us at the Institute...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tom Malone and the MIT Cognitive Center
We worked with Tom Malone some time ago. He is now director of the MIT Cognitive center. A push forward to AI, long ago started at MIT, that then stalled for aFrom...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
512
This is our 512th post Jim Carrey is an actor known best for his comedic roles, and is considered one of the top movie stars in Hollywood. He starred in the movie...
From Putting People First
Experientia redesigns online learning and training toolkit for UN affiliate
This week, the ITC-ILO officially launched the Experientia-designed website Compass: the right direction for learning and training. The site is a toolkit comprising...
From Schneier on Security
Massive MIMO Cryptosystem
New paper: "Physical-Layer Cryptography Through Massive MIMO." Abstract: We propose the new technique of physical-layer cryptography based on using a massive MIMO...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
AP Computer Science or AP Art History
The news came across my social media links that last year more students took the Advanced Placement Art History exam than took the AP Computer Science exam. Given...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Divorcing Your Job
Steve King in his Small Business Labs, points me to this blog by Ayelet Baron about your relationship with your employment. Nicely done view of jobs and our dealing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bring Your Own Devices
In the APQC Blog: Getting prepared for BYOD. A good overview. Gartner predicts that half of organizations will move to a mandatory bring your own device (BYOD)...
From Schneier on Security
Insecurities in the Linux /dev/random
New paper: "Security Analysis of Pseudo-Random Number Generators with Input: /dev/random is not Robust, by Yevgeniy Dodis, David Pointcheval, Sylvain Ruhault, Damien...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Glue: Stick Out From the Crowd
Stick out from the Crowd: " ... Glue is a unique tool that enables you to present yourself in a complete, compelling, and informative way. .. " Reexamining this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Support Intuition
In the Decision Support Blog: A new App that aims to make your intuition better. Skeptical of that, but the thought to take decision making beyond the rationally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data not a Holy Grail
Messy, says an article in Forbes. The dangers to privacy, and the buy-in to magical powers to solve problems. Like any new tool, be cautious about the hype, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Prediction and Text
In GigaOM Turing prediction engines towards text. The integration of text and numeric analytcs is rare. " ... Machine learning startup BigML now supports...
From Putting People First
New qualitative research report on tablet use in UK schools
Tablets for Schools, a UK campaign organisation that seeks to “prove the categorical case of tablets in schools”, has just published its second qualitative research...
From Computational Complexity
Who controls what is taught- the dept or the students?
There is a debate about the questions: To what extent do we give them what they NEED? what they WANT? These questions permeate many other discussions of education...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS S&T Policy Fellowships: A Call for “Big Data & Analytics” Experts
The following is a special contribution to the CCC blog by Peter Z. Revesz, 2012-14 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense....
From Schneier on Security
Fingerprinting Burner Phones
In one of the documents recently released by the NSA as a result of an EFF lawsuit, there's discussion of a specific capability of a call records database to identify...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson