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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 Schneier on Security
Estimating the Probability of Another 9/11
This statistical research says once per decade: Abstract: Quantities with right-skewed distributions are ubiquitous in complex social systems, including political...
From Computational Complexity
Max Flow
A couple of weeks ago Suresh tweeted the following result of James Orlin Max flows in O(nm) time or better. jorlin.scripts.mit.edu/Max_flows_in_O… — Suresh Venkat...
From Geeking with Greg
Will tablets replace PCs?
I just bet Professor Daniel Lemire $100 that they won't. At least, any time soon. The specific terms of the bet are, "In some quarter of 2015, the unit salesWho...
From Apophenia
“Socially Mediated Publicness”: an open-access issue of JOBEM
I love being a scholar, but one thing that really depresses me about research is that so much of what scholars produce is rendered inaccessible to so many people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winning the Show Rooming War
Good post on the growing behavior of shoppers using the retail environment to see and touch products, but then buying them elsewhere or online. Good examplesGino...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Intelligence with Recorded Future
An excellent case study of the use of Recorded Future for understanding the recent Middle East unrest and embassy attacks. A use of semantic analysis of multiple...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Launching a New Feature: Show Us Your “Research in Motion”!
Every week for the last several years, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has showcased an interesting computing (or related) research project as a “Highlight...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Educational Technology
An opinionated view. " ... Education is in some respects one of the most stagnant of all major industries. A farmer from 150 years ago would not comprehend a modern...
From Schneier on Security
Steganography in the Wild
Steganographic information is embedded in World of Warcraft screen shots.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
To App Or Not To App
I was at the industry advisory board meeting for one of the career/vocational schools I am involved with earlier this week and the topic of apps came up. Apps for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing API's for Mobile Performance Best Practice
In CACM by Kate MatsudairaWhile there are lots of informative articles on mobile performance, and just as many on general API design, you’ll find few discussing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Bias
In Mckinsey Quarterly: Overcoming a bias against risk. " .... Risk-averse midlevel managers making routine investment decisions can shift an entire company’s...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The ABC Conjecture And Cryptography
A missed point in the history of cryptography Shinichi Mochizuki recently released a series of four papers (I, II, III, IV) totaling 512 pages that claim to contain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brands Pushing to Shoppers
Brands increasing push notification to mobile shoppers on the move. In BrandWeek. " .... The notifications can be triggered by contextual factors such as location...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ditching Powerpoint Bullets for Pictures
Picture superiority, which means using very few written words in presentations, is evoked in Forbes. Made me think of an important proposal I was part of crafting...
From My Biased Coin
By the Numbers
Pretty much matching my predictions....My graduate course has 50 enrolled right now, fairly close to 50-50 between undergrads and grads.Salil's introductory complexity...
From Schneier on Security
Stopping Terrorism
Nice essay on the futility of trying to prevent another 9/11: "Never again." It is as simplistic as it is absurd. It is as vague as it is damaging. No two words...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast integer compression: decoding billions of integers per second
Databases and search engines often store arrays of integers. In search engines, we have inverted indexes that map a query term to a list of document identifiers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New National Robotics Initiative Solicitation Issued
The National Science Foundation (NSF), together with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NASA, and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), yesterday issued...
From The Eponymous Pickle