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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
Being Sought
Seth Godin pens a short item item being found versus being sought and how this is of particular interest in a mobile and social world.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Sandboxes
Sandbox as a UI. We did something related, but without sand. Touch interface. Created a sandbox workbench which implemented a retail design. This allowed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japanese Startup Culture
In FastCompany: Never involved with Japan startup culture, but have a number of times worked with their innovation world. Which I thought was strong, but had a"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Types of Analytics
Yet another view of categories of analytics, here Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive and Prescriptive. Adding diagnostic, which I have not typically added to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Videos for Learning R
Two popular videos from Stanford, for learning the statistical environment R. Reviewing now. Via Star Bridge Partners.
From Schneier on Security
My New PGP/GPG and OTR Keys
You can find my new PGP public key and my OTR key fingerprint here.
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post by Justin Thaler: A "Mini-Survey" of Practical Verification Algorithms
Justin Thaler, after presenting his most recent work on verifiable computation at Crypto, decided to write up a mini-survey on recent work in the area, and he offered...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Found Off the Coast of Spain
The incomplete specimen weighs over 160 lbs. And here's a map of squid spottings. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Payments, NFC and Apple
We carefully tracked the emergence of the short range radio frequency approach called NFC, to enable smart phone mobile payments. In Adage, speculation that Apple...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
2nd Anniversary Forum of the America Invents Act on September 16
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will host the America Invents Act (AIA) Second Anniversary Forum on Monday, September 16, 2013, from 1-5 pm ET at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personal Care Brands and Mobile
In Mobile Marketing: " ... Personal-care industry slow to embrace mobile-optimized selling --- Manufacturers of personal care products are opting for partnerships...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Advertising: Pay per Gaze
Paying per gaze, Paying per emotion, is it the future of advertising. Not impossible, but will detecting this kind of behavioral data be considered intrusive?
From Putting People First
Four new papers by anthropologist Brigitte Jordan
Brigitte Jordan, the legendary corporate anthropologist, once described as one of the “godmothers” of design ethnography, has posted four new papers on her website...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC’s Accessibility and Innovation Initiative Speaker Series: Yevgen Borodin
The FCC’s Accessibility and Innovation Initiative Speaker Series will feature Yevgen Borodin on “Improving Accessibility for the General Public” on September 12...
From Schneier on Security
Conspiracy Theories and the NSA
I've recently seen two articles speculating on the NSA's capability, and practice, of spying on members of Congress and other elected officials. The evidence is...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Calling for Proposals: Creating Visions for Computing Research
The mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit...
From Computational Complexity
Myhill Nerode versus Pumping Lemma
I have seen some recent backlash against the pumping lemma for showing that languages are not regular and as I am now teaching regular languages I had to choose...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scoping the Digital Divide
Pew Statistics on US access to the Internet. 20% of US adults have no access. But is that fair since most US libraries do have public connections to the net? Plus...
From Schneier on Security