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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 Noisy Channel
WTF! @ k: Measuring Ineffectiveness
At SIGIR 2004, Ellen Voorhees presented a paper entitled “Measuring Ineffectiveness” in which she asserted: Using average values of traditional evaluation measures...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“The Algorithm That Runs the World”
New Scientist published a great story last week describing the history and evolution of the simplex algorithm — complete with a table capturing “2000 years of algorithms”...
From Schneier on Security
The View from an Israeli Security Checkpoint
This is an extraordinary (and gut-wrenching) first-person account of what it's like to staff an Israeli security checkpoint. It shows how power corrupts: how it's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peer Reviewed Places
In Wired: Proposing a Facebook for scientists designed to keep them from making mistakes early in their work. Not peer reviewed, but peer supported interaction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scenario Planning
A new book on scenario planning. A method we experimented with in the enterprise as establishing guides to alternative futures. I often found it good, useful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rail and Shale
Rail industry benefits. From MJ Perry. There will be other consequences to the broader US supply chain, and new jobs in the industry.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robotics and Automation, the Future of Manufacturing
New York Times‘ tech writer John Markoff has penned a feature in today’s newspaper describing recent advances in robotics and automation, what they mean for the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data, Smaller
In Wired: Dremel vs Hadoop in big data exploration and leverage. Good read. " ... Dremel is a way of analyzing information. Running across thousands of servers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Linking Loyalty to Facebook
More innovative things from the big retailer: " ... Savvy online shoppers will have the chance to earn double Clubcard points by using Facebook to like, share and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Cost of Logos
I have watched as large enterprises have re-done their branding over the years, in part by an urge for new creativeness, and even motivated by outside threats.a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
About Mobile Data and Analytics Delivered
In GigaOM: It is making us reconsider many aspects of the interaction between people and process. Further, it should make us think about where the analytics will...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Does time fix all?
As an graduate, finding useful references was painful. What the librarians had come up with were terrible time-consuming systems. It took an outsider (Berners-Lee)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Mozilla and NSF Teaming Up to Build Apps for the Future;Idea, App Challenges Offering $500K in Prizes; Deadline Soon
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Will Barkis, Gigabit Developer Evangelist at Mozilla Foundation. As the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing Voice Emotions
Related to work we did trying to understand how people react to new products. A form of non conscious, neuromarketing analysis. But now proposed via a smart phone...
From Wild WebMink
How Open Source Forced Microsoft’s Hand
Even if you’re not using LibreOffice, you owe it a debt of gratitude because it (and its ancestors) forced Microsoft to interoperate, have a stable file format...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Montessori and CS in K-8
There has recently been a lot of discussion about improving computer science education and the need to include the elementary and middle school students in the,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Efforts to Film a Live Giant Squid
Japanese researchers are attempting to film the elusive giant squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A French-U.S. Collaboration on Computational Neuroscience
Earlier this week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) announcing a new international collaboration in computational neuroscience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Principles of Data Visualization
In Information Management: Reasonable thoughts about the topic. Better this than many of the infographics I have seen that muddle the information in the data...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP