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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
Retailers and Private Label Packaging
In Foodprocessing: " ... As retailers put more emphasis on private-label products, they are relying on packaging that sets their merchandise apart, instead of mimicking...
From Schneier on Security
Take Back the Internet
Government and industry have betrayed the Internet, and us. By subverting the Internet at every level to make it a vast, multi-layered and robust surveillanceWe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Inflation in US
A piece by MJ Perry on Food Inflation and Prices in the US. Inflation in food has been down considerably since the 70s. Further instructive statistics about food...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Women in Computing–An Image To Think About
Picture from the Facebook page of www.ilovesmartwomen.com
From The Eponymous Pickle
Army Visualization
The US army / SAIC is using Tableau for Data visualization. This appears to be a descriptive visualization, as opposed to an analytic example " ... "We have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Project10X: Semantic Research
Brought to my attention. Semantic analysis work is always of interest. " .... Mills Davis is founder and managing director of Project10X — a research consultancy...
From Schneier on Security
How to Remain Secure Against the NSA
Now that we have enough details about how the >NSA eavesdrops on the Internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographicits...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GEPhi Graph Visualization for Exploratory Data Analysis
This method was brought to my attention my a colleague. We had looked at it some time ago and it has come back as a possible exploratory solution.The Open Graph...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Movement of Queues
In Mind Hacks: Why the other line in a queueing situation always moves faster than yours. A good example of how perception beats out rational thought. In mywith...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Portfolio as Innovation Dashboard
In Innovation Excellence: We used exactly this approach in the enterprise new product development world. Its very useful if you have many competing efforts" ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Cashless Vending Machines
Cashless Vending machines are now smarter. We examined machines like this in Japan that could adapt to supply chain and demand problems.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are 8-bit or 16-bit counters faster than 32-bit counters?
Programmers often want to count things. They typically use 32-bit counters (e.g., the int type in Java). But what if you are counting small numbers? Maybe a 16-bit...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in the Cook Islands
Diamondback squid could be a source of food. No word on taste. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Early Experiences with Poll Everywhere and Peer Instruction
I've now survived the first three lectures in both my classes. Both are introductory computing classes for non-majors: one is heavier on concepts but includeseven...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engaging Social and Mobile Consumers
In the coming weeks I will be passing along some of the excellent work by correspondent Phil Hendrix. Three-part Series on Engaging Social and Mobile Consumers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and IBM
Not unexpected view and direction by IBM. Riding the hype wave, with their own considerable analytics resources. Those put together can provide a formidable capability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Buying KXEN
SAP buys a fairly well known predictive analytics company, KXEN. Have followed SAP in the past with its other related acquisitions, like Khimetrics in 2005. ...
From Schneier on Security
New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services
The Brazilian television show "Fantastico" has exposed an NSA training presentation that discusses how the agency runs man-in-the-middle attacks on the Internet...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson