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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 Schneier on Security
Inauguration Security
A first-person account of the security surrounding the second inauguration of President Obama.
From Wild WebMink
US Hearing To Test Lemley Patents Proposal
A rare en banc hearing of the US federal circuit court today will re-hear the arguments over a fiercely-fought software patent case, CLS Bank vs Alice Corp (the...
From Wild WebMink
TDF Keeps Up The Pressure
The release of LibreOffice 4.0 continues the regular drumbeat of feature releases (coupled with maintaining a known-stable earlier version) that’s a signature strategy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Improvisational Teaching
Yesterday I had a situation where several students were playing catch up after absences and the rest of the class had finished a programming exercise sooner than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taleb on Accepting Uncertainty and Volatility
Nassim Nicholas Taleb reviewing his new book on Accepting Uncertainty, Embracing Volatility in Knowledge@Wharton. Over the years I have talked to many vendors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Startup to Solve Healthcare
Vincent Granville looks at a way to have big data fix healthcare. Even if Data Science does not solve the whole problem, the exercise might be valuable. An interesting...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Polynomials Behaving Badly
Composite Moduli Ahead—Danger Ken Jeong is a doctor of internal medicine, and a stand-up comic, and a TV and movie actor. His full name is Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G CEO Drives Steps for Analytics
In InformationWeek: More from P&G's CEO on the relevance of analytics. He gives key steps in making analytics work in the large enterprise: Putting it at the...
From Wild WebMink
CDB: Not Dead Yet
The Communications Data Bill may have come under heavy fire in Parliament, but it’s not dead yet – and it’s already cost us a fortune even without becoming law....
From Putting People First
Book: Beyond Smart Cities
(Wow, it covers Turin!) Beyond Smart Cities: How Cities Network, Learn and Innovate Tim Campbell Routledge, 2012 The promise of competitiveness and economic growth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Analytics in Retail: The Book
Large companies can afford the ability to use consultants who can help them understand such terms as 'Business Intelligence'. 'Predictive Analytics', "Big Data'...
From Schneier on Security
Tide Becomes Drug Currency
Basically, Tide detergent is a popular product with a very small profit margin. So small non-chain grocery and convenience stores are happy to buy it cheaply,started...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Force Feedback for Smartphones
Research ongoing to produce force feedback that could ultimately be used on a smartphone. This opens some interesting new sensor applications, on games certainly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Internal Collaboration Work
McKinsey Quarterly interview with Don Tapscott: " .... The author and strategist describes why effective knowledge management within enterprises requires replacing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Internet for Manufacturing
In Technology Review: Each product will remember and record how it was made, and what raw material components made it. That is a powerfully useful stream of information...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Academy of Engineering elects new Members
Election to the National Academy of Engineering – which has roughly 2,000 members across a dozen fields – is one of the highest professional honors accorded to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Postdocs in Computational Complexity Blog
Check out CCC council member Lance Fortnow’s blog, “Computational Complexity.” Today’s post focuses on postdocs in computer science. Anita Jones is troubled by...
From Computational Complexity
Postdocs in Computer Science
Anita Jones is troubled by the growing number of postdocs in computer science, she uses "troubling" twice in the first paragraph of her CACM Viewpoint. But is it...
From Schneier on Security
Over $3M in Prizes to Hack Google Chrome
Google's contest at the CanSecWest conference: Today we’re announcing our third Pwnium competitionPwnium 3. Google Chrome is already featured in the Pwn2Own competition...
From Wild WebMink