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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
Sankey Diagram Blog
A blog devoted to Sankey diagrams. Discovered in my quest for ways to deliver these. Many good examples. " ... With this blog I would like to share with you...
From My Biased Coin
Calling Out Stupidity
While I greatly enjoy working at Harvard, there are many painfully stupid things said and done by people here -- as I suppose is the case anywhere -- that either...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New: Visual Footprint Resources App
Ken Karakotsios was the author of the remarkable SimLife genetic playground game. He worked with us to build agent based simulation models that were used for years...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibo and Teradata and Real Time Event streams
TIBCO and Teradata Enable CIOs to Extract Actionable Insights From Real-Time Event Streams to Deliver the Two-Second AdvantageEvent Processing within the Teradata...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Business Sphere Wins Edison Silver Award
Quite a considerable accomplishment, built on work started years ago with innovation in Executive Information Systems. Much more in this blog about Business"...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Escape Artist
It's amazing how small a hole he can fit through. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
5th Annual State of the Mobile Net Conference on May 9, 2013
The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee brings you the 5th Annual State of the Mobile Net Conference on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Key members of Congress...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
U.S. Election Assistance Commission Roundtable on Voting Accessibility on May 9, 2013
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission will hold a roundtable on “Transforming Election Administration, Voting System Accessibility, and the Certification Process”...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
HHS: Technology Accessibility and Inclusion Conference on May 7, 2013
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) will hold its first “a11y@HHS: Technology Accessibility and Inclusion Conference,” on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at the...
From Schneier on Security
Another WWII Message Decoded
It's a really interesting code and story. (The first link has the most detailed information about the code and the cryptanalysis.)
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Visual Analytics
In SASCom: SAS visual analytics methods, seen through the problem of retailing. Video of their method. Would like to see more of this in the retail space.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Physical by Smartphone
Thinking of a smartphone as a sensor driven device. How might they ultimately be used as a means to give remote physicals? Still some issues, but the possibilities...
From Wild WebMink
Stockholm Syndrome Stopping Seeing How Linux Has Won?
Amazingly, the debate about when we will see the “year of the Linux desktop” is still active. Maybe it’s software Stockholm Syndrome making us all love our captor...
From Schneier on Security
The Public/Private Surveillance Partnership
Our government collects a lot of information about us. Tax records, legal records, license records, records of government services received-- it's all in databases...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Patent Public Advisory Committee Meeting – May 16, 2013
The USPTO Patent Public Advisory Committee will hold its quarterly meeting on Thursday, May 16, 2013 from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm at the USPTO campus in Alexandria,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anti Churn Analytics
A not uncommon application for analytics. Decreasing customer churn. This loyalty problem is an expensive issue in many periodic sales industries. A case study...
From Wild WebMink
What does the Special 301 really reveal?
Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: This week the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released the annual Special 301 Report. For those of you who...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Activities of the Federal Big Data Initiative
In recent weeks, several new activities of the Federal Big Data Initiative have been launched with the goal of addressing the challenges and opportunities of Big...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Trillion Dollar Math Trick
How linear algebra can make databases go really fast Mike Stonebraker is one of the world’s leading expert on database technology. He started in academe at Berkeley...
From Schneier on Security