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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
PC Dominance Over
Gartner makes some comments on this and it is covered in Computerworld. Not unexpected. My own observation over the holidays in the home , and waiting in airports...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book Generation
In ReadwriteWeb: More detail on Phil Parker's econometric book generation algorithms. That are said to be generating millons of books that are sold on Amazon....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shadow IT
In CIO Dashboard: A term I had not specifically heard of. Though the world of Bring your own device (BYOD) has been in action for some time. A survey of CIOs...
From Putting People First
A sustainable building promotes pro-environmental behavior
A Sustainable Building Promotes Pro-Environmental Behavior: An Observational Study on Food Disposal by Wu DW, DiGiacomo A, Kingstone A PLoS ONE 8(1): e53856. doi...
From Putting People First
Experientia® Prisma kitchen in Interni Annual Cucina 2012
The Interni Annual Cucina 2012 is out, and this year’s monograph features Experientia’s Prisma design for Toncelli Kitchens. The Prisma was the 2012 flagship kitchen...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Where Do Domestic Ph.D. Students in CS Come From?
The CRA’s Education Committee has published a new report in the January 2013 edition of Computing Research News on the Baccalaureate Origins of Domestic Ph.D. Students...
From Schneier on Security
Lexical Warfare
This essay, which uses the suicide of Aaron Swartz as a jumping off point for how the term "hactivist" has been manipulated by various powers, has this to say about...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
XML for databases: a dead idea
One of my colleagues is teaching an artificial intelligence class. In his class, he uses old videos where experts from the early eighties make predictions about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mindmeld
Brought to my attention from Expectlabs.com. Their system called MindMeld, initially designed to be delivered to the iPad, that will monitor conversations and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Should we be Worried about?
What scientific issues should be we worried about? The Edge asked for contributions and received these suggestions, from well known scientists in many fields.
From Schneier on Security
Anti-Surveillance Clothing
It's both an art project and a practical clothing line. ...Harvey's line of "Stealth Wear" clothing includes an "anti-drone hoodie" that uses metalized material...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science Postdocs — Best Practices Guide
The following is an article published in the January 2013 edition of Computing Research News. If you would like receive CRN via email, you can sign up here. Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hack the Kitchen?
In Mashable: Campbell Soup offers prize to develop meal planning App. I like the idea of delivering suggestions based one taste, meal history, budget, time available...
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Midsize Business in the Cloud
IBM Tools helping midsize businesses work in the cloud. An article brought to my attention from Information Management. " ... IBM unveiled social business software...
From Computational Complexity
paperfree?- we are not there yet
Last time I taught I had to decide if I would HAND OUT the HW or just say its posted (NOTE- I post it in any case.) This may seem old fashion but I think there...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How I learned mathematics (as a kid)
As I reported elsewhere, I technically failed kindergarten. For example, one of the test we had to pass was the memorization of our home phone number. I refused...
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Should You Learn Scala?
It depends on what you want to accomplish*, but the answer is probably yes.By way of background, Scala is a programming language originally developed at the Swiss...
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Upgrading to Scala 2.10.0
Scala 2.10.0 came out recently. It has many nice features I haven't used yet, for instance type tags, and production versions of many nice features that I was already...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UC Data Visualization Day
Reading with pleasure Stephen Few's book "Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten", Second Edition. It was good to see that Stephen FewData...
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