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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings Week of September 30
Well, it would appear that some things are still happening during the shutdown. I would recommend, however, that you double check before visiting any of these meetings...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics World
Some early takeaways from Predictive Analytics World. Instructive comments that I could agree with in general.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Miriah Meyer, former Computing Innovation Fellow, named a 2013 PopTech Science Fellow
Miriah Meyer was a Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) from 2009 – 2011 at Harvard University. Upon completion of her Fellowship...
From The Eponymous Pickle
4D Printing Adapts
So what is 4D Printing? Printing objects that can adapt to their environment. In GigaOM. " ... 3D printing promises to give us objects on demand. But 4D printing...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Storing Internet Data, Social Networking Data, on Pretty Much Everybody
Two new stories based on the Snowden documents. This is getting silly. General Alexander just lied about this to Congress last week. The old NSA tactic of hiding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft's Power BI for Office
It has been some time since I looked at any of Microsoft's Business Intelligence offerings. As MS partners in the enterprise we did see some of their BI acquisitions...
From Schneier on Security
Will Keccak = SHA-3?
Last year, NIST selected Keccak as the winner of the SHA-3 hash function competition. Yes, I would have rather my own Skein had won, but it was a good choice. ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Flipping The Computer Science Classroom
I’m a bit of a “flipped classroom” skeptic. Let’s just get that our of the way up front. But I want to get my thinking out there in hopes that people will educate...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The written word took over the world
Whereas human beings are geared genetically toward spoken languages, written languages are an acquired ability. In this sense, it is a high-level ability. For centuries...
From Schneier on Security
WhoIs Privacy and Proxy Service Abuse
ICANN has a draft study that looks at abuse of the Whois database. This study, conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom, analyzes...
From My Biased Coin
Entrepreneurship and the Curriculum
At the Andreessen Horowitz academic round table (see last post), the issue of how to promote student entrepreneurship through the curriculum arose. The VCs athttp...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple and iBeacon Location
We examined location intelligence for a long time as it pertained to retail presence. Notable now in the US are Apples current trials with Baseball. " ... Baseball's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Institute for Large Scale Innovation
The Institute for Large Scale Innovation, and its founder John Kao was recently brought to mind. After our introduction to their work quite a while ago. ...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Are The Girls in Your Class Being Bullied?
Perhaps many of you have read the recent Letter to my daughter's high school programming teacher, a blog post from an impassioned journalist whose daughter was...
From Computational Complexity
Long Tails and Fat Heads
Sometimes words or phrases are used in MATH and then spread to the REAL WORLD. I have blogged about how the terms Prisoner's Dilemma has become a real-world-phrase...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Myths and Misconceptions
I am in the midst of preparing an executive presentation about the use of analytics for companies in our region. Our group consists of experienced practitioners...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Service Manual AR from Metaio and VW
What is growing as an application for Augmented Reality, the delivery of automobile service manuals for a concept car. Here for technicians. GigaOM discusses...
From My Biased Coin
Notes from the Andreessen Horowitz Academic Round Table
I've spent the last couple of days attending the Andreessen Horowitz Academic Round Table.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simpson's Paradox
I recall this coming up on some testing we did, the danger of a lurking explanatory variables. Is very easy to have conformation bias here. A visual of description...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson