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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Things I Like About Python
Back in May I wrote a popular post about which was a better beginners language: Processing or Python. Although I concluded that Processing was better for the audiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Midsize Insiders
Some of my blog posts will start to appear in Midsize Insiders. Quite an interesting group of other bloggers as I have read them so far: " ... Insiders are independent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Need for Thank You
In the HBR: In a long career, before search became common, and I had become a rumored expert, I was often asked to do a simple online search. Later their admins...
From Schneier on Security
Decrypting a Secret Society's Documents from the 1740s
Great story, both the cryptanalysis process and the Oculists.
From My Biased Coin
Posts from FOCS (part 5)
[Again, edited by Justin Thaler, who organized all this. The following was written by Michael Forbes of MIT.]Title: Higher Cell Probe Lower Bounds for Evaluating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Tricks for Dieting
What if we used augmented reality to scale what we eat to its caloric content? A simple idea, that might work in an era of Google Glasses type Augmented Reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook and Jobs
Wharton looks at Facebook's social jobs App. A competitor to Linkedin's focus? " ... the company’s “Social Jobs” app will allow users to search approximately...
From Computational Complexity
Recursion Theorem follows from Church-Turing
During a homework assignment in a graduate complexity course I took at Cornell back in 1985 I used the following reasoning: Since a computer code sits in RAM that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Space Usage
In Progressive Grocer. A recent exploration of a Fresh Market made me take a closer look at allocation of space and the implications of the approaches being used...
From The Noisy Channel
Follow Me on LinkedIn!
I’ve recently started posting on LinkedIn as part of LinkedIn’s thought leadership program. My first two posts as an “influencer” are a bit meta: Influence and...
From Schneier on Security
Anonymous Claims it Sabotaged Rove Election Hacking
Can anyone make heads or tails of this story? (More links.) For my part, I'd like a little -- you know -- evidence. Remember that Ohio was not the deciding state...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Navigating the Big Data Challenge
From Brain: Good overview of the challenge involved. Starting with a concise statement of the problem: " ... Today's decision makers have no trouble finding It...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Programmers Say When Their Programs Don’t Work
Someone posted this to Facebook the other day. I have to admit that I have said several of these and heard most of them. I suspect a lot of these are also said...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Pain of the Interface
In Technology Review: All UIs are a pain to use. Especially the new ones. I read this as I am about to select a new one.
From My Biased Coin
Computer Science Rhodes Scholar
A question we tend to get at Harvard is why students should come here to study computer science. There are lots of reasons, of course, but one thing we like to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Provides Ecosystem Financing
An interesting piece just received about how IBM is provide financing for its clients. Quite a broad opportunity to drive opportunities for growth.' ... IBM recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starwood Tweets Aloft
The Starwood Aloft hotel chain has started their agency review process using Twitter. Recall when they had a virtual presence in Second Life? My its been a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VSN Strategies
Colleague Jim Tenser has a blog called VSN Strategies. " .... James (“Jamie”) Tenser is an author and consultant to the retail and consumer products industry....
From Schneier on Security
E-Mail Security in the Wake of Petraeus
I've been reading lots of articles articles discussing how little e-mail and Internet privacy we actually have in the U.S. This is a good one to start with: The...
From Computer Science Teachers Association