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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
On Secrecy
"When everything is classified, then nothing is classified." I should suppose that moral, political, and practical considerations would dictate that a very first...
From Schneier on Security
My TEDx Talk
I spoke at TEDxCambridge last month on security and power. Here's the video.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever New Product Development
" Unilever announces the launch of a research project with the University of Liverpool to develop the next generation of renewable chemicals from biomass to use...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Ed Week and an Hour of Code are coming
An announcement for Hadi Partovi, founder of code.org, about Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 9-15) and the Hour of Code initiative. To celebrate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waze and Google, Together
Was an early user of Waze, which did some very interesting things with social car travel. Intriqued about how Google bought them for $1 Billion. Now the US FTC...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What I found interesting lately: Xkcd on the halting problem: "Big picture .... all things must someday die" ([1]) "Your fingerprint isn't a secret; you leave...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curious Voyager
My longtime colleague Walter Riker, has a long running blog Curious Voyager. Follow him. He does excellent training in the MS Office Space. He also keeps up...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Random Forests for Classification
A technical discussion of using Random Forest Algorithms for large database classification problems. Have not used this myself yet, but I am dealing with classification...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings Week of September 30
Well, it would appear that some things are still happening during the shutdown. I would recommend, however, that you double check before visiting any of these meetings...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics World
Some early takeaways from Predictive Analytics World. Instructive comments that I could agree with in general.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Miriah Meyer, former Computing Innovation Fellow, named a 2013 PopTech Science Fellow
Miriah Meyer was a Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) from 2009 – 2011 at Harvard University. Upon completion of her Fellowship...
From The Eponymous Pickle
4D Printing Adapts
So what is 4D Printing? Printing objects that can adapt to their environment. In GigaOM. " ... 3D printing promises to give us objects on demand. But 4D printing...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Storing Internet Data, Social Networking Data, on Pretty Much Everybody
Two new stories based on the Snowden documents. This is getting silly. General Alexander just lied about this to Congress last week. The old NSA tactic of hiding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft's Power BI for Office
It has been some time since I looked at any of Microsoft's Business Intelligence offerings. As MS partners in the enterprise we did see some of their BI acquisitions...
From Schneier on Security
Will Keccak = SHA-3?
Last year, NIST selected Keccak as the winner of the SHA-3 hash function competition. Yes, I would have rather my own Skein had won, but it was a good choice. ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Flipping The Computer Science Classroom
I’m a bit of a “flipped classroom” skeptic. Let’s just get that our of the way up front. But I want to get my thinking out there in hopes that people will educate...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The written word took over the world
Whereas human beings are geared genetically toward spoken languages, written languages are an acquired ability. In this sense, it is a high-level ability. For centuries...
From Schneier on Security
WhoIs Privacy and Proxy Service Abuse
ICANN has a draft study that looks at abuse of the Whois database. This study, conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom, analyzes...
From My Biased Coin
Entrepreneurship and the Curriculum
At the Andreessen Horowitz academic round table (see last post), the issue of how to promote student entrepreneurship through the curriculum arose. The VCs athttp...
From The Eponymous Pickle