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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
To App Or Not To App
I was at the industry advisory board meeting for one of the career/vocational schools I am involved with earlier this week and the topic of apps came up. Apps for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing API's for Mobile Performance Best Practice
In CACM by Kate MatsudairaWhile there are lots of informative articles on mobile performance, and just as many on general API design, you’ll find few discussing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Bias
In Mckinsey Quarterly: Overcoming a bias against risk. " .... Risk-averse midlevel managers making routine investment decisions can shift an entire company’s...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The ABC Conjecture And Cryptography
A missed point in the history of cryptography Shinichi Mochizuki recently released a series of four papers (I, II, III, IV) totaling 512 pages that claim to contain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brands Pushing to Shoppers
Brands increasing push notification to mobile shoppers on the move. In BrandWeek. " .... The notifications can be triggered by contextual factors such as location...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ditching Powerpoint Bullets for Pictures
Picture superiority, which means using very few written words in presentations, is evoked in Forbes. Made me think of an important proposal I was part of crafting...
From My Biased Coin
By the Numbers
Pretty much matching my predictions....My graduate course has 50 enrolled right now, fairly close to 50-50 between undergrads and grads.Salil's introductory complexity...
From Schneier on Security
Stopping Terrorism
Nice essay on the futility of trying to prevent another 9/11: "Never again." It is as simplistic as it is absurd. It is as vague as it is damaging. No two words...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast integer compression: decoding billions of integers per second
Databases and search engines often store arrays of integers. In search engines, we have inverted indexes that map a query term to a list of document identifiers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New National Robotics Initiative Solicitation Issued
The National Science Foundation (NSF), together with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NASA, and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), yesterday issued...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile as a Bridge to In-Store
In AdAge: Writing about a recent Google study. Obvious at one level, but also an increasingly important concept as mobile becomes our ever available information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Center for Business Analytics
In development and talking to:The UC Center for Business Analytics (CBA) brings together organizations and a world-class, multidisciplinary group of faculty and...
From Schneier on Security
A Real Movie-Plot Threat Contest
The "Australia's Security Nightmares: The National Security Short Story Competition" is part of Safeguarding Australia 2012. To aid the national security community...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Have I Gotten Myself Into?
One of the things I hear from university computer science faculty on a regular basis is that they have trouble retaining students. What happens is that students...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Expresses Concerns Over Support For Scientific And Technical Conferences
Part of the response to the reported excesses in conference spending involving the General Services Administration has been to restrict conference and travel spending...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driving Profitability with Retail Analytics
From the current issue of Analytics Magazine. An excellent, practical publication that deals with quantitative analytical methods. Here: " ... How to make choices...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF’s CISE, OCI Leadership Issue Letter to Community
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced an organizational realignment last week, including plans to integrate the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) within...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Internet Association
From the Precursor Blog:" ... Google, Amazon, eBay, and Facebook reportedly are launching a new Internet Association in mid-September to be "the unified voice of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Balancing Creativity and Sales
In Adage: " ... The task of delivering on both sales and creativity falls to Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Keith Weed, a career Unilever executive...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science