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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
Operations Research Blogs from Informs
A list of blogs and other social networking connections sponsored by Informs. Includes communities and focused topics that deal with analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stack Ranking Stifles Creativity
In Forbes: Microsoft example. I am inclined to agree, an approach that strictly forces grading on a curve tends to make people less creative, take fewer risks...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF: Significant Surge in CS Postdocs in Last Decade
Last December, we blogged about changes in the number of new Ph.D.s in computer science — a slight increase between 2009 and 2010, but the “fastest growth” of all...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computational Fairy Tales the Book
Just about a year ago I wrote a post about a Computational Fairy Tale blog (Computational Tales) Briefly Dr. Jeremy Kubica, software engineer and manager at Google...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Squid
This was suprisingly interesting. When a body is mysterious, you cut it open. You peel back the skin and take stock of its guts. It is the science of an arrow,...
From Schneier on Security
Me on Military Cyberattacks and Cyberweapons Treaties
I did a short Q&A for Network World.
From Wild WebMink
GPL Forked
A new project that forks the GPL shows that Github isn’t just for software developers. See my column in InfoWorld this week for more.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security BYOD Tweet Chat
I have not been particularly fond of the public Tweet chat, an organized interaction between vendor experts and anyone who wants to join in. But lately I havehttp...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Solving the Turing Test by 2029?
At The Wall Street Journal’s
From My Biased Coin
On NPR (Morning Edition)
Groupon is being discussed on NPR (Morning Edition), which means we get a phone call again. Our graphs are reproduced on the site, and John Byers speaks for us...
From Schneier on Security
Naming Pets
Children are being warned that the name of their first pet should contain at least eight characters and a digit.
From Putting People First
Digital devices as embodied experiences in remote Indian village
In arguing that digital technologies enable embodied experiences that reshape the very ways in which we conceptualize our everyday life, Nishant Shah, founder and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows 8 Developer Camps and Hackathons
A new series of Windows 8 developer events are coming soon! These are special two-day events, with a DevCamp on day one featuring a full day of sessions plus an...
From Geeking with Greg
Puzzling outcomes in A/B testing
A fun upcoming KDD 2012 paper out of Microsoft, "Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: Five Puzzling Outcomes Explained" (PDF), has a lot of great insights...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Patent for Head Mounted Display Tech
Now Apple has also entered the fray with a patent on head-mounted display technology, with a different approach. In Slashdot. In the next iPhone? If only it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Medical Sensors
In Medgadget: From LifeWatch AG (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland) An Android smartphone packed with medical sensors. Quite remarkable: " .... The tests...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics at Work
Finally made it to the 2010 book: Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results by Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris and Robert Morison. A fairly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fog Computing
In Wired: Fighting leaks with the spread of believable misinformation. This is a very old idea, but using systems technology to do it effectively is not.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Blog
A blog devoted to Data Science, and apparently often concerning Big Data: Data Science 101: Learning to be a Data Scientist. Short and generally accessible articles...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog