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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 Computational Complexity
STOC CFP still delayed- but I was asked to pass this along
Since there were comments on the blog about the STOC and CCC CFP not being out yet I mailed various people who are in-the-know. I got email from David Shmoys (STOC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How iPads are Transforming Retail
In TheNextWeb: Nothing very revolutionary here. The examples work for all tablets. Still a good reminder of the basics of what can be done. I don't see enough...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Mary Jean Harrold
Mary Jean has passed away—she is already greatly missed Mary Jean Harrold started like many of her generation, as a math major. She earned her BS and MA degrees...
From CERIAS Blog
A Valuable Resource for Young People (limited time offer)
Over the years, I've gotten to know many people working in security and privacy. Too few have focused on issues relating to children and young adults. Thankfully...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing Food
In the NYT: At very least the form of the food, or perhaps also adding the intermixing of flavors as well. Another example of the rush to 3D printing. Still...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise and Big Data
In Readwrite: Well thought out piece. Have seen this same behavior in many hype cycles. Large enterprises, who can afford it, accept the use of technologies like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Marketing is Dead: Says P&G Branding Boss
Not exactly what was said, but rather that digital has just become part of the accepted mix of techniques and our creativity should focus on brand building rather...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reviving Artificial Intelligence at MIT
More on MIT's new center. Is AI and its application to business back?" ... A new interdisciplinary research center at MIT, funded by the National Science Foundation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Numbers into Knowledge
Long time collaborator and colleague Jeff Camm at the University of Cincinnati is featured in this recent Lindner College of Business article. I have been on the...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
A Preview of My GHC13 Gram's House Poster
It's not finalized, but here's a preview of the poster I made about Gram's House, a research project I started a few years ago, for the Grace Hopper Celebration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in 3D Printing
In Techdirt: A good overview of printing and scanning advances to support remote manufacture. Links to a number of vendors and projects underway of interest.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Analytics Delivered
Gib Bassett passes along an article on a purveyor of social media analytics: Infinite Analytics. " ... a cloud-based big data startup that uses the social graph...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Strategy and Hype
Forrester on Big Data Strategy. A useful cautionary view on the floods of hype. " ... Don't Have A Big Data Strategy Yet? Good. ... Big data noise has reached...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saving Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble continues a spiral downwards, apparently unable to link its Nooks and coffee shops to a profitable experience. Books as experience goods and the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measurement as a Path to Success
A favorite topic of mine. Improving measurement can lead to better results, even if you don't apply advanced analytics to the measurements. Because measurement...
From Putting People First
Online time can hobble brain’s important work
While you are browsing online, you could be squandering memories — or losing important information, according to Swedish research. Contrary to common wisdom, an...
From Putting People First
Financial Times on EPIC conference
This week, business anthropologists from all over the world descended on the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference at London’s Royal Institution, the historic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation and Science Fiction
In the Atlantic: Inventors need to read more science fiction... " ... MIT researchers Dan Novy and Sophia Brueckner argue that the mind-bending worlds of authors...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How Bacteria Terraform a Squid
Fascinating: The bacterium Vibrio fischeri is a squid terraformer. Although it can live independently in seawater, it also colonises the body of the adorable Hawaiian...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog