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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
Tracking Things
Received several offers about the Tile App. A little tag you can put on things and then track and locate with your smart phone. About $20 each. Available by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensors as Teenagers
In the Cisco Blog: An excellent piece by Bill Franks of Teradata. About the Internet of the things and how it will operate, and about the information it will ...
From Schneier on Security
Yochai Benkler on the NSA
Excellent essay: We have learned that in pursuit of its bureaucratic mission to obtain signals intelligence in a pervasively networked world, the NSA has mounted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monitoring the Future of Cloud Computing
Recorded Future uses their novel Web semantic analysis methods to look at the future of Cloud computing. Visually answering questions like: " ... As businesses...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Littlewood’s Law
Why it may take a ‘miracle’ to catch some cheaters source, where he’s right after Charles Dickens John Littlewood really existed. He appeared as second author on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle Uses Photo App
In Mobile Marketer: A cute use of photo-taking in a smartphone to build brands. A simple but a potentially useful idea. Will it usefully engage? Who will download...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hands Free Car Manual on Google Glass
Metaio's press release on their prototype augmented reality car manual, mentioned here before. I note that this was precisely the area we explored, using 3D"...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces Two New Expeditions in Computing Awards
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) today announced two new Expeditions in Computing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking About the 2014 Imagine Cup
One of the things I was responsible for while I was working at Microsoft was promoting the Imagine Cup competitions. I did that pretty well. I like the competition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your E-ZPasses are Not Just Read At Tollbooths
In Forbes: Are privacy conditions implied to just occur at locations where we expect a device to read our location? This is probably disclosed somewhere deep...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What do computer scientists know about performance?
Scientists make predictions and are judged on these predictions. If you study global warming, then your job is to predict the climate for the next few decades....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Private Brands Fail
In MypBrands: Why private brands fail. " ... Most brands fail. In fact, some estimate that 70-80% of new brands launched each year flounder and eventually flop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Your Big Data and Packaging it
What is the value of your big data? Have talked to two startups recently that are addressing that. The promise of big data is to be able to leverage your own data...
From Schneier on Security
The Limitations of Intelligence
We recently learned that US intelligence agencies had at least three days' warning that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was preparing to launch a chemical attack...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Prosperity Institute
The Prosperity Institute, out of the Rottman School at the University of Toronto. Via Roger Martin. I like the interesting geographic focus. " ... The Lloyd...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Cybersecurity Framework Now At Discussion Draft Stage
While cybersecurity legislation slowly inches forward in Congress, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is moving faster in implementing its...
From Computational Complexity
Did YOU think the NSA could factor fast?
Before the recent revelations about the NSA (see Lances Post and Scott's post )I would tell my class, when teaching P and NP, We have very good reasons to think...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VisiRule: Sharable Know How
I am repeating part of a post from last year below, based on my reexamination of expert systems style applications:" ... expert systems to understand and improve...
From Schneier on Security
Surreptitiously Tampering with Computer Chips
This is really interesting research: "Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans." Basically, you can tamper with a logic gate to be either stuck-on or stuck-off by...
From Schneier on Security