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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
Disrupting Education
In CACM: Research on the ongoing and imminent disruption of education. A model that has existed for 800 years sees itself threatened. What will make the new...
From My Biased Coin
Congratulations to Justin and Jon
Justin Thaler and Jon Ullman had back-to-back thesis defenses today. Both talks were excellent -- Justin's on his work on verification methods (for cloud computing)...
From Schneier on Security
Intelligence Analysis and the Connect-the-Dots Metaphor
The FBI and the CIA are being criticized for not keeping better track of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the months before the Boston Marathon bombings. How could they have...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Most Perplexing Mystery
The discrete log and the factoring problem Antoine Joux is a crypto expert at Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University. He is also one of the crypto experts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Does e-Commerce Development in House
Perhaps an unusual choice. Most large non-tech companies use off the shelf or outsource such capabilities. Wal-Mart feels it has special understanding of it needs...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 6
May 8 Hearing: The Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism of the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on responses to cyberthreats. 9 a.m., 226 Dirksen Building...
From Schneier on Security
Michael Chertoff on Google Glass
Interesting op-ed by former DHS head Michael Chertoff on the privacy risks of Google Glass. Now imagine that millions of Americans walk around each day wearing...
From Putting People First
Tweeting Minarets: joining quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
In the last post of the EthnographyMatters Ethnomining edition (edited by Nicolas Nova), David Ayman Shamma @ayman gives a personal perspective on mixed methods...
From Putting People First
It’s time to reinvent the Personal Computer
Although Windows and Macintosh are both showing their age, Michael Mace of Cera Technology thinks there is enormous opportunity for a renaissance in personal computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Michael Schrage
Just started to review some of Michael Schrage's posts in his HBR blog that had to do with analytics, data visualization and the digitization of business. Well...
From Computational Complexity
Are you smarter than a fifth grader? I'm not.
My darling sometimes watches TV in the middle of the night when she can't sleep.So I found myself watching (actually listening) to the quiz show Are You Smarter...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to be effective at open source: by programmers, for programmers
Though it does not get much press, one of the great social and technological innovation of the last 30 years has been open source software. To about 90% of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Geographic Data
An interesting HBR Blog case study on visualizing geographic data. They conclude reasonably: " ... There are lots of ways to sequence development. But the end...
From Schneier on Security
Honeywords
Here is a simple but clever idea. Seed password files with dummy entries that will trigger an alarm when used. That way a site can know when a hacker is trying...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 6 May 2013
About five weeks left to my school year. I’m behind in grading. I’m behind in lesson planning. This means less time on the Internet for the next week or so. Somehow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IX Research
Announcing the innovation research and delivery arm of Innovation Excellence: IX Research. Did not know it was coming, but who tells me anything? Research for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Changing the World
Only a few days ago we were looking at the first Web page, developed twenty years ago. Now another anniversary, of Linkedin, only ten years ago. How has this...
From Apophenia
How would you define work in a networked world?
(This post was originally written for LinkedIn. Go to the LinkedIn version to engage in the conversation.) I’ve been scratching my head trying to think about how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Car Gathers Massive Data
In Kurzweil: Saying that the Google self-driving car gathers 1 GB data per second. Quite a formidable amount. Talk about opening yourself to analytics data...
From The Eponymous Pickle