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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
New Kind of Science, Again
Steven Wolfram looks back at the publication of 'A New Kind of Science', which we examined ten years ago as a means to model certain kinds of group interaction....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Medical Visualization
We live in a world that will increasingly bring sensors, experts, databases and models of many kinds closer together to provide help to the decision maker. AndA...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Barbecued Squid -- New Summer Favorite
In the UK, barbecued squid is in: Sales of squid have tripled in recent months due to the growing popularity of Mediterranean food and the rise of the Dukan diet...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Turing Award Winner's Presentation on K-12 CS
I just got back from attending ITiCSE (http://www.iticse12.org.il/htmls/home.aspx) a computer science education conference that is similar to SIGCSE, except that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Courses
And more R courses for data visualization and analytics. In this case it is more about new methods being made available that will soon be in the toolbox of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Rewards Programs
The latest on customer rewards programs from Progressive Grocer. The overall return on investment has been increasing. The sophistication of the methods to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Post CS & IT 2012 Thoughts
The first part of this week was spent in Irvine CA for the 2012 CS & IT Conference. It
From Computational Complexity
North Carolina tries to legislate science
(I will post on CCC 2012 next week. I am still recovering from Jet Lag and going through 472 emails that piled up on 2.5 weeks, of which 22 were relevent.) You...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking BMW's Remote Keyless Entry System
It turns out to be surprisingingly easy: The owner, who posted the video at 1addicts.com, suspects the thieves broke the glass to access the BMW's on-board diagnostics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Georgia R School Opens
AnalyticsBridge posts the particulars about the online 'Georgia R School', available for as little as $110. The R stat and visualization package is becoming increasingly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen Launches Innovation Lab
Nielsen launches ad effectiveness innovation lab. " ... The Nielsen Innovation Lab will incorporate assets from across the Nielsen group, along with external resources...
From My Biased Coin
MMDS
I'm hanging out at MMDS -- the Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Datasets at Stanford. The crowd is surprisingly huge, with a greater number of peopleProbabilistic...
From Schneier on Security
All-or-Nothing Access Control for Mobile Phones
This paper looks at access control for mobile phones. Basically, it's all or nothing: either you have a password that protects everything, or you have no password...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Stanford Student's PhD Memoir Worth Reading
Philip Guo's Ph.D. Memoirs have spread like wildfire, and for good reason. His well written short book offers a fascinating look into life as a grad student at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking in the Aisle
In the WSJ: Continued advanced usage of eye tracking to understand the shopping consumer. Some very interesting detail is included in this article. "...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA's Annual Conference Raises Questions
This blog entry was originally posted by Doug Peterson at his blog http://dougpete.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/old-and-new-dogs-new-tricks/ and is used with his permission...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Makes Recommendations On Continuity Of E-Government
One of the consequences of the recent East Coast storm was that several cloud computing services were knocked off line for several hours. As government services...
From Putting People First
Field notes from global tech ethnographer Tricia Wang
A sociologist, ethnographer, and corporate consultant who studies global technology use among migrants, low-income people, youth, and others on society
From Schneier on Security