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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
Neuromarketing World Forum
Found late. Quite a wealth of information from the Neuromarketing World Forum including people I have worked with: Stephen Sands and Gemma Calvert. A number...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Algorithmic Rapture”: Music Composed by a Computer
Also in this week’s Nature, a fascinating review of an album of evolved music, composed by the Darwinian computer program Iamus, that is “at the very least musically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop Negotiating
Some intriguing thoughts. Often impractical though. Knowing you want to negotiate sets the stage.
From Schneier on Security
Video Filter that Detects a Pulse
Fascinating. How long before someone claims he can use this technology to detect nervous people in airports?
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ten Years of Blog Complexity
We mean: Happy 10-Year Anniversary of the Complexity Blog src Lance Fortnow is famous for many things, but one is his blog Computational Complexity, which he created...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metrics for Social
Some useful thoughts on new metrics for social. In particular how these measures treat alternative environments. " ... As consumers behave differently when using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Doing Business in China
Fascinating piece in IEEE Computer on the issues around doing business in China. I have passed this off to colleagues there for a response. If of interest will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA sees Analog
My introduction to digital computing came just as the last courses were taught using analog methods. The convenience of digital devices was so overwhelming that...
From Wild WebMink
Clouds
These were the ones over the Dales – on the way into Wensleydale, in fact – rather than anything to do with computing.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Computational Social Science: Making the Links”
There’s a great article in this week’s Nature – out this afternoon — featuring computer scientists like Cornell’s Jon Kleinberg, Harvard’s David Lazar, and Columbia’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PayPal and Retail
PayPal, in collaboration with Discover, expands its presence in US retail. Press release. " ... Starting sometime next year, that arrangement will let PayPal...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Online Coding Exercises For Programming Education
Well it is that time of year again – back to school. On the SIGCSE mailing list are a couple of reminders about online exercise tools for a variety of programming...
From Schneier on Security
Five "Neglects" in Risk Management
Good list, summarized here: 1. Probability neglect – people sometimes don’t consider the probability of the occurrence of an outcome, but focus on the consequences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Suggestion Driven Improvements
Key drivers of successful suggestion driven improvement programs to increase quality. You connect to the right possibilities, then seriously develop them. An...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Faster Product Development
A new look at faster and more successful product development. Generate and test. Ready, fire, aim. In part this depends on how expensive the 'fire' segment is...
From Computational Complexity
Ten Years of the Complexity Blog
On August 22, 2002 I wrote the following immortal words to start this blog This is my complexity web log. I'll be giving random thoughts about computational complexity...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA to Hold Proposers’ Day Ahead of New Foundational Cyberwarfare Program
On Monday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a Sept. 27 Proposers’ Day for its Foundational Cyberwarfare program, a new initiative...
From Schneier on Security
Poll: Americans Like the TSA
Gallup has the results: Despite recent negative press, a majority of Americans, 54%, think the U.S. Transportation Security Administration is doing either an excellent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Social Sciences
In the Edge: I was brought up in the hard sciences, so was always skeptical of how the fuzzy social sciences could be quantified in a meaningful way. But asNicholas...
From Wild WebMink