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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data and the 2012 Summer Olympics
Over the past year, we have blogged extensively in this space about the promise of “big data” — noting the enormous volume and heterogeneity of data, as well as...
From Computational Complexity
My take on the Olympics
Thoughts about the Olympics If you are rooting for your country, would you rather they get (say) 18 medals: 6 Gold, 6 Silver, 6 Bronze, or 17 medals: 10 Gold...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Customer Behavior
An example in the gaming industry. Which we explored as a solution to retail applications as well. The use of analytics have been common there for years, given...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nearly Half of Smart Phone Using Shopping Apps
From Nielsen: Not very surprising, the convenience and ubiquity will prevail. " ... Survey results released on Monday showed that 45 million people, or 47 percent...
From Schneier on Security
Verifying Elections Using Risk-Limiting Auditing
Interesting article on using risk-limiting auditing in determining if an election's results are likely to be valid. The risk, in this case, is in the chance of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu: Mars Edition
Did you follow the landing of the latest Mars rover – Curiosity? Well if you did or even if you just know a bunch of space crazy students the latest version ofKodu...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Digital Gold
In AdWeek: A look at what P&G has done with digital and the Olympics. Also a mention that augmented reality saw little traffic. " ... Procter & Gamble's...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Vipin Kumar to Receive 2012 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award
Vipin Kumar, the William Norris Professor and head of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota, will receive the Association for Computing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 6 August 2012
What a great week last week was. My big planned event was a meeting of the ACM/IEEE CS 2013 committee in Seattle WA. As it turns out that meant I was able to attend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coupsmart
Just brought to my attention by Jeff Dyck: Coupsmart. Of interest they write:CoupSmart's Mission: Marketing Should Be SimpleAnd by simple, well, we mean simple...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking Microsoft's PPTP Protocol
Some things never change. Thirteen years ago, Mudge and I published a paper breaking Microsoft's PPTP protocol and the MS-CHAP authentication system. I haven't...
From Wild WebMink
MinkCast: Explaining OmniOS
Despite Oracle pulling out, OpenSolaris lives on as Illumos, which is a loose-knit open source community with multiple downstream projects. One of those is the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lead with a Story
From a colleague of mine, Paul Smith, who reports on the publication of his book on an important topic, storytelling. Looks to be a great read, will follow with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Social Business
Via InformationWeek: As we see more social and mobile data being collected the potential of its use is growing rapidly. " ... One of the key properties of social...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Toward a R&D Roadmap for Privacy
The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) – a non-partisan, Washington, DC-based think tank that aims to formulate and promote public policies to...
From Schneier on Security
State-by-State Report on Electronic Voting
The Verified Voting Foundation has released a comprehensive state-by-state report on electronic voting machines (report, executive summary, and news coverage)....
From Wild WebMink
EU Procurement Failures
How do you do open procurement for ICT solutions? The answer, according to the European Commission, is to ensure that all procurement that requires tendering (and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security Innovation Network
Colleague Julie Anixter does an interview with Robert Rodriguez about Security Innovation Networks. " ... to advance innovation and enable global collaboration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patient-Mounted Disposable Health Robotics
Another example of heath robotics, which I have started to study more closely. A number of examples that gather health data exist already, for minimizing labor...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science