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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
Tablets Enhance Buying
In a survey by Aislebuyer. " ... 57% of shoppers said retailers that use mobile devices instead of cash registers are more appealing, even though only 22% have...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Publicly available large data sets for database research
Most database research papers use synthetic data sets. That is, they use random-number generators to create their data on the fly. A popular generator is dbgen...
From Computational Complexity
"Math was a mistake- I made it too hard"
(REMINDER- IF you are a STUDENT who wants to GOTO STOC 2012 but needs money to go then you should GOTO the STOC 2012 homepage and click on Travel Support. Deadline...
From Schneier on Security
The Effects of Data Breach Litigation
"Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation," Sasha Romanosky, David Hoffman, and Alessandro Acquisti: Abstract: In recent years, a large number of data breaches...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Universities Should Host High School Programming Contests
I finished up last week with a trip to Western New England University where they were running a high school programming contest. I love these events because I think...
From Wild WebMink
Magic Editable PDFs
Please stop sending .DOC or .DOCX files as attachments to your e-mails. There is a better way. Send editable PDFs. I explain how in ComputerWorldUK today.
From Putting People First
Who, Where, How We Work: The Intersection of Culture, Workplace, and Social Media
What happens when designers & manufacturers discuss the workplace & social media? Dexigner reports that IIDA has published a whitepaper summary of the IIDA Industry...
From Putting People First
Technology can push our crazy buttons, rewire brains
Our tech saturation has reached such a critical point that some experts say it’s rewiring our brains. Research psychologist and computer educator Larry Rosen of...
From Putting People First
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Who are these companies and what do they want from me? Alexis Madrigal’s voyage into the invisible business that funds the web. “This morning, if you opened your...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikipedia Page 1 Rank
For some time now it has been common to see Wikipedia results to come up on page 1 of a Google search. Search Engine Watch looks at a number of studies that...
From Wild WebMink
? Artistic Excellence
[This post is only useful to people who can buy MP3s from Amazon US - sorry] I have previously recommended samplers from Mishara Music. They specialise in singer...
From Schneier on Security
Congressional Testimony on the TSA
I was supposed to testify today about the TSA in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. I was informally invited a couple of weeks ago...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 26
March 27 Hearing: The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on the effect of federal policies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
George Dyson on Advertising
In the Edge: George Dyson on self-replicating codes, the universe .... and strangely, on advertising. Or more generally as I see it 'selling' ..." ... What's...
From Apophenia
Reflections on Fear in a Networked Society
I’ve been trying to work through some ideas on how fear operates in a networked society. At Webstock in New Zealand, I gave a talk called “Culture of Fear + Attention...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Probabilistic Topic Models
In the CACM: Somewhat Technical, but some valuable insights: " ... Surveying a suite of algorithms that offer a solution to managing large document archives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Ready for Big Data
Good general piece in CIO about getting ready for Big Data. Companies will increasingly need to leverage the data within their own domains and lead rather than...
From Computational Complexity
What is an Elegant Proof?
What is an elegant proof? I do not know and I doubt it can be well defined; however, we all know it when we see it. I welcome comments on the topic; however, Ihere...
From The Eponymous Pickle