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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 March 2013
Posting this a bit late today. I had a very busy weekend which included some snowboarding. That means I was much too tired and sore yesterday to get this ready....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is genetically engineering intelligence worth it?
We have been hearing reports that China is planning to use genetic engineering to make its population smarter. In fact, there are claims that China has been practicing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Suicide Notes
Locally a good example of predictive text analysis. Mining a large corpus of suicide notes at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital, to model and predict when suicide...
From updated sporadically at best
The Longest I Ever Sit Still
At the end of 2012, after months of extreme travel, extreme work, and extreme play, I craved balance. When I went home for the holidays I dusted off the copy of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data in Wal-Mart's DNA
Gib Bassett of Teradata sends along a link to an article about Wal-Mart's use of Big Data. Nice detail that can be instructive to others in this space. If anyone...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy St. Patrick’s Day—Again and Again and Again and Again
Leprechauns are tricky even when they’re not Neil L. is a Leprechaun. Today I wish to share my experience with him this morning of St. Patrick’s Day. Neil L. has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Informs Analytics
Upcoming Informs Analytics meeting in San Antonio in early April. I have attended many, hosted a few, written speeches for them, presented at many, even received...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Planning
Something we did for thirty plus years. Under all sorts of regimes and priorities. Among what the article suggests, to be ready for chaos. Be agile. Be ready...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking Product Form for 3D Printing
An interesting view. I am still skeptical about the general use of 3D printing for manufacturing. But there are some broadening thoughts here. The designs have...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: WTF, Evolution?
WTF, Evolution? is a great blog, and they finally mentioned squid.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
K-8 Take Aways from SIGCSE
I just returned from my first SIGCSE conference inspired and renewed. After listening to Dr. Margolis' closing keynote session, where she confirmed that computer...
From Wild WebMink
Google, VP8 and Codec Standards
The politics around codecs are complex and the incumbents are prone to deceptive feints, like in 2010 when MPEG-LA claimed that H.264 was available “free” for web...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
This Year's Grace Hopper Submissions
Tonight is the deadline for the 2013 edition of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing's Call for Participation. Although I wasn't sure I was going...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Robotics Roadmap Presentation to Congress March 20
On Wednesday, March 20, a new Robotics roadmap will be presented to the Congressional Caucus on Robotics. The presentation program will include: • Overview – Henrik...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter and Verix Partnership
More on the Procter - Verix partnership , from CEO magazine. Delivering easier to apply Business Intelligence: " ... After a year of intensive teamwork between...
From Computational Complexity
Goodbye Old Friends
We had two terrible losses this week. Not people but websites, Intrade and Google Reader. The corporate auditors for the real-money Irish prediction markets...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing the Internet
Flowing data describes an App that provides a 3D representation of the infrastructure of the Internet. No specific value, except the knowledge that we are riding...
From Schneier on Security