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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
A World Without Randomness
What if there were no coin flips? src. Leonid Levin has originated many great ideas in our field. Indeed he had a share with Stephen Cook in the idea of -completeness...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing Support for Windows 3.1
In SlashGear: Another indication of advances supporting remote manufacture. " ... What the team at Microsoft is doing this week is going through how users of...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Google's New Computer Science Teaching Fellows Program in South Carolina
In a couple of weeks, a team of Teaching Fellows from Google will begin leading various after-school computer science (CS) programs throughout the Charleston area...
From Wild WebMink
Ballmer to leave Microsoft
Honestly it’s about time and exactly what the company needs if it’s to get fixed. Let’s hope they get someone who will truly embrace open source rather than firewalling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New in Decision Analytics Talk
First descriptive slide for my upcoming talk on what's new in Decision Analytics. Comments? More to follow.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complex Global Supply Chains
In GigaOM: " ... Thanks to the growth of 3D printing, intelligent robots, and open-source hardware, tomorrow’s supply chains will be faster, smaller, cheaper,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Face Recognition Security Pins
I recently reported on the current state of face recognition. The most obvious use of all, why not use it as a pin for security? Too easily mimicked from images...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing Wall Sized Displays
We experimented with using large format displays in retail to create dynamic contexts that could be altered to match categories and times. Displaying on the walls...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Consumer Devices
Last weekend, a Texas couple apparently discovered that the electronic baby monitor in their children's bedroom had been hacked. According to a local TV station...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TurtleArt–Turtle Graphics With Blocks
I ran into an article called How to Pick Your First Programming Language at Help Kids Code that talked about something called TurtleArt. Now there wasn’t a lot...
From Putting People First
The UK’s Behavioural Design Lab
The UK’s Behavioural Design Lab is a new collaboration between Warwick Business School and the Design Council, uniting behavioural science with design-thinking....
From Putting People First
Empowering women with Mobile Money. Enough research to support further investments.
Hannes Van Rensburg, founder and CEO of Fundamo, a VISA company based in South Africa, writes that there is enough research on empowering women with Mobile Money...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Working On Big Data Technology Roadmap
On September 30, the National Institute of Standards and Technology will host a Big Data workshop at its headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The focus of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Concise Grounding in Neuroscience
From Mindhacks: by the author of the Neurophilosopy blog, Mo Costandi " ... 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know, .... As its title suggests, the book...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamic Pricing for College Football Seat Prices
Via MJ Perry: In another of his investigations into the power of markets based on price. Notable here are the large number of parameters for the price: ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Design Delivered by Ponoko
(update)My son pointed me to design page of Kyle A. Koch: " ... a (former) industrial design student at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Information Empires
A fascinating book on the emergence of telecom to the Internet. And how individual innovation changes to corporate control. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connected Vehicles
In Engadget: Note the integration with decision flow. Ford studies space robots to improve communications with connected cars. " ... by studying the way robots...
From Computational Complexity
P = NP and the Weather
In the Beautiful World, my science fiction chapter of The Golden Ticket where P = NP in a strong way, I predicted that we could predict weather accurately enough...
From Schneier on Security