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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
SAP and Intelligent Data
SAP makes plans to turn Big data into intelligence. Something we all hope to do. Some new releases from the ERP giant: " ... Using its BI market share leadership...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation and Research in China
We were involved in early research done in China with retailers and universities in China. Notably with BJ Hualian, who ultimately used some our methods to develop...
From Computational Complexity
Is the Turing Test Still Interesting?
Besides the Turing machine, Alan Turing also developed what we now call the Turing Test in Turing's seminal 1950 AI paper "Computational Machinery and Intelligenc...
From Schneier on Security
$200 for a Fake Security System
This is pretty funny: Moving red laser beams scare away potential intruders Laser beams move along floor and wall 180 degrees Easy to install, 110v comes on automatically...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“On the Edge — The Future of Computing Research”
“On the Edge — The Future of Computing Research” was the title of a plenary session at the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) biennial Conference at Snowbird...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My Workshop on Programming With Processing is Postponed
Summer is as summer does. We didn't get enough registrations for my workshop on learning to program using Processing. Luckily, this wasn't from lack of interest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SNCR Publishes the Social Mind
From SNCR, of which I am a senior fellow:Professionals Spend 40% of Time Online Interacting in Peer Communities according to the Society for New Communications report...
From Schneier on Security
Rudyard Kipling on Societal Pressures
In the short story "A Wayside Comedy," published in 1888 in Under the Deodars, Kipling wrote: You must remember, though you will not understand, that all lawsmy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Big Data Became so Big
In the NYT: Largely obvious thoughts, but some very good links to a number of sources, including the report called Big Data, Big Impact from the World Economic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A View of Sector Inventory Performance
A very informative piece in SC Digest, that surveys inventory turns by sector. A must for supply chain data trend understanding. " ... So, let's take an example...
From My Biased Coin
Important IP Case
For those of you not following the Apple-Samsung case going on right now, it's fascinating. Since I do expert witness work, it's interesting to me from that perspective...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wave and Pay via Cheap Chips
Cheap printable chips have always been mentioned as solutions for making RFID ubiquitous. Now a cheap chips example for the 'wave and pay' revolution, that isIn...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Computing Innovation Fellows Project
In early 2009, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), launched the Computing Innovation Fellows Project...
From Schneier on Security
An Analysis of Apple's FileVault 2
This is an analysis of Apple's disk encryption program, FileVault 2, that first appeared in the Lion operating system. Short summary: they couldn't break it....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Read Code
We don’t teach students how to read code. Actually we don’t event teach them that they should read code for the most part. The closest we get is sample code inprettyprint...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PureFlex Expert System for IT Operations
I worked on several large scale expert systems applications during the AI drive of the 1990s. One of the areas we specifically examined was the configuration of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Mobile Payments Networks
In CWorld: Continued progress in retail payment networks. " ... More that a dozen retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and 7-Eleven have joined forces...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
First Person: Maja Matarić, “the Social Roboticist”
University of Southern California computer scientist and neuroscientist Maja Matarić is the subject of an interview appearing in today’s Nature. On the eve of the...
From Schneier on Security
Lousy Password Security on Tesco Website
Good post, not because it picks on Tesco but because it's filled with good advice on how not to do it wrong.
From Computer Science Teachers Association