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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
GE, AI and Modeling Hospitals with Corvix
Fascinating work by GE in the use of artificial intelligence in a system called Corvix. During the AI explosion of the 80s we talked to GE about what I would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foundation of the Internet of Things
In E-Commerce Times: Interesting idea, but how do we get all the things to work together? Were are the standards to make it work? Also good mention of how...
From Wild WebMink
Endangered Downloads
I’ve posted an article in a few places commenting briefly on the implications of Github, Google and others (but notably not SourceForge) deciding not to offer downloads...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Mix Criticized, Defended
Defense In AdAge: We used marketing mix since their very earliest inception. It is a relatively simple statistical technique that suggests the best investment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Avoiding Pitfalls in Predictive Analytics
Venkat Viswanathan makes some useful comments. Some of them relate to my favorite suggestion: Simplify." Predictive analytics will almost always enable better...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How the Acidification of the Oceans Affects Squid
It's not good. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Wild WebMink
Too Much Power?
In InfoWorld this week, I’ve reprised my views about contributor agreements. The trigger for this was seeing Oracle erroneously change the license for the MySQL...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Engagement Analytics for Cultural Venues
Its all about engaging the customer. All companies, large, small and midsize need better ways to engage with and retain their customers. And as the contextThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Checkout Time Technology
Good USA Today article on a number of methods that Kroger is using to improve checkout times. A high labor cost in retail, and frequent complaint of shoppers...
From Schneier on Security
US Offensive Cyberwar Policy
Today, the United States is conducting offensive cyberwar actions around the world. More than passively eavesdropping, we're penetrating and damaging foreign networks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Black Swans Circling?
In the HBR Blog. Provocative piece on the number of changes occurring that could influence the near term future of P&G. And many other consumer goods companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones Will Bring us Data
In Nature: We thought of using teams of robots to gather information from the plant and manufacturing spaces and outdoor staging yard floor. We did use satellite...
From Schneier on Security
The Japanese Response to Terrorism
Lessons from Japan's response to Aum Shinrikyo: Yet what's as remarkable as Aum's potential for mayhem is how little of it, on balance, they actually caused. Don't...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Computer Science: Profession or Craft
A recent report on the quality of teacher training has stirred up a lot of discussion about how teachers should be prepared. With the ongoing shortage of qualified...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
REACHING OUT TO CSTA's INTERNATIONAL MEMBERS
When you are a Computer Science teacher there is a universe of knowledge that you can transfer to your students, depending on the interest they show. You can teach...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics E Newsletter
The Informs Analytics e-Newsletter. Always informative. Subscribe. Latest articles:- Continuing education for analytics professionals- Big data paying off for...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Three Theorems About Growth
Is a key to polynomial versus exponential complexity lurking here? Cropped from Abel Prize source Mikhail Gromov is a French-Russian mathematician who has made...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Welcome to Complex Event Processing
Thinking about real time processing. Getting more important every day. We addressed this for complex high speed manufacturing lines. Linking advanced analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle