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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 Noisy Channel
HCIR 2012 Challenge: People Search
As we get ready for the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval this October in Cambridge, MA, people around the world are working...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PowerHouse Factories: Brand Culture Plus Data with Analytics
Reconnected this past week with PowerHouse Factories. Impressed by their linking branding with data and analytics. Build the brand, but immediately link in how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Codes on Book Covers
QR codes showing up on all book covers of some publishers. Like Simon and Schuster. Not unexpected as more consumers are getting used to seeing the codes in...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Grilling Quantum Circuits
Polynomial algebra turns up the heat Amlan Chakrabarti is currently finishing a postdoc at Princeton University, while on leave from the University of Calcutta...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Less Than Wisdom of Crowds
In the NYT: A number of recent examples have shown that the crowd, as exemplified by well known wisdom aggregations like Intrade, is not always correct. Sometimes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumers More Loyal to Store Search
In Progressive Grocer: Intriguing review of research which says that shoppers search by store for online coupons rather than by brand, and as a result see store...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Operations Research Blogs from Informs
A list of blogs and other social networking connections sponsored by Informs. Includes communities and focused topics that deal with analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stack Ranking Stifles Creativity
In Forbes: Microsoft example. I am inclined to agree, an approach that strictly forces grading on a curve tends to make people less creative, take fewer risks...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF: Significant Surge in CS Postdocs in Last Decade
Last December, we blogged about changes in the number of new Ph.D.s in computer science — a slight increase between 2009 and 2010, but the “fastest growth” of all...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computational Fairy Tales the Book
Just about a year ago I wrote a post about a Computational Fairy Tale blog (Computational Tales) Briefly Dr. Jeremy Kubica, software engineer and manager at Google...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Squid
This was suprisingly interesting. When a body is mysterious, you cut it open. You peel back the skin and take stock of its guts. It is the science of an arrow,...
From Schneier on Security
Me on Military Cyberattacks and Cyberweapons Treaties
I did a short Q&A for Network World.
From Wild WebMink
GPL Forked
A new project that forks the GPL shows that Github isn’t just for software developers. See my column in InfoWorld this week for more.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security BYOD Tweet Chat
I have not been particularly fond of the public Tweet chat, an organized interaction between vendor experts and anyone who wants to join in. But lately I havehttp...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Solving the Turing Test by 2029?
At The Wall Street Journal’s
From My Biased Coin
On NPR (Morning Edition)
Groupon is being discussed on NPR (Morning Edition), which means we get a phone call again. Our graphs are reproduced on the site, and John Byers speaks for us...
From Schneier on Security
Naming Pets
Children are being warned that the name of their first pet should contain at least eight characters and a digit.
From Putting People First
Digital devices as embodied experiences in remote Indian village
In arguing that digital technologies enable embodied experiences that reshape the very ways in which we conceptualize our everyday life, Nishant Shah, founder and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows 8 Developer Camps and Hackathons
A new series of Windows 8 developer events are coming soon! These are special two-day events, with a DevCamp on day one featuring a full day of sessions plus an...
From Geeking with Greg