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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Re-gifting An Old Theorem
An old theorem re-packaged? Emily Post was America’s premier writer on etiquette for much of the 20th Century. The Emily Post Institute, which she founded in 1946...
From Computational Complexity
To Write, or Not to Write, That Is the Question
Guest post by Vijay Vazirani Our field has been blessed with some great books: classics such as Knuth's volumes and Garey & Johnson literally got the field going...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Many Images
Very useful ideas, especially when we have more happening on mobile and thus smaller spaces.Online Shopping Choices: Less Is Sometimes Better Than More Online shopping...
From Schneier on Security
Operation Vula
"Talking to Vula" is the story of a 1980s secret communications channel between black South African leaders and others living in exile in the UK. The system used...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013) Final Report
I was pleased and honored to be a part of the committee that developed this document over a period of several years. If you are interested in undergraduate computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Merry Christmas 2014
Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year to all my readers and friends. God Jul og Godt Nyttår Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon Boas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Role of Intuition in Analytics: Abductive Reasoning
Intuition, creativity, even directed randomness are parts of analytics. And thus also part of what we are now calling 'Big Data'. Now how we do implement the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bosch and the Internet of Things
In CWorld: With a special emphasis on Sensors and MEMs. We experimented with several early developers in the smart appliance space." ... Bosch says the future...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Pardon For Alan Turing
I beg your pardon Elizabeth Mary, Queen Elizabeth II, is the Queen of the United Kingdom and of the other Commonwealth realms. She has just today granted Alan Turing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Price of Software
This morning I was reading Robert Scoble’s Age of Context while waiting for my order to be ready at the fish market and came across mention of how inexpensive mobile...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On human intelligence… a perspective from computer science
Whenever I read social scientists, there is often, implicit in the background, the concept of “intelligence” as a well defined quantity. I have some amount of intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mood Sensing Interfaces
Affective computing, and a mention of Clippy. we were there testing it. Is it an essential part of AI? " ... Nearly a decade after its retirement, the advice...
From Schneier on Security
Report on Syrian Malware
Fascinating report from Citizen Lab on the use of malware in the current Syrian conflict (EFF summary and Wired article).
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Should be Done With Dark Data?
In CWorld: This is always an issue, in the past we often reviewed data being gathered and either stopped gathering it or aggregated it. Often aggregating to uselessness...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inventing and Nurturing the Joke
Who invented the joke? Famed classicist Mary Beard claims it was the Romans. A joke is an explosive, minimal point making story connecting with our emotions in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Reality Distortion Fields
My former boss Bob Herbold, writing on leadership, talks about reality distortion fields. A term new to me. " ... In summary, when there are big opportunities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Death of the Tablet Magazine
In GigaOM: I don't follow this closely, but have experimented with methods like Flipboard. Overall this surprises me. With particular criticism of the Apple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking You Everywhere
Google Is Testing A Program That Tracks You Everywhere You Go, in the Business Insider. Pointing to a report in DigiDay.
From The Eponymous Pickle