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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
Capturing the Timing of Public Statements
I am doing a deeper study of time domain search engine Recorded Future for its potential use by a client. A recent blog entry opened additional thoughts about"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assessing Networks
Thoughtful piece in the HBR blogs on assessing your network. Thinking of this as interesting " ... They came up with three components that would make members...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Another Giant Squid Found
A dead 13-foot-long giant squid has been found off the coast of New South Wales. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Labs Streams Live
The ACM Bulletin Announces:" ... For the first time, Microsoft Research will present its Faculty Summit in a virtual forum freely accessible by the public. On July...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CSTB Releases Study on
The National Academies’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) released this morning a new report –
From Computational Complexity
Instance Compression
Some announcements: FOCS Accepts, ITCS Call and ToC Special Issue for Rajeev Motwani I'd like to highlight one of the new FOCS papers, New Limits to Classical by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategy and Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A good discussion of the difference between strategy and innovation. Obvious, perhaps, but innovation should be included to some degree...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
If Digital, Then Tracking: Big Data Analytics in Practice
Yesterday we
From Wild WebMink
Red Hat
Not every project hits the headlines. As I’ve been co-hosting FLOSS Weekly over the last few months, I’ve noticed a surprising number of projects showing up that...
From Schneier on Security
On Securing Potentially Dangerous Virology Research
Abstract: The problem of securing biological research data is a difficult and complicated one. Our ability to secure data on computers is not robust enough toScience...
From Putting People First
Low2No smart services and informatics workbook published
The Helsinki Low2No project team just released a smart services and informatics workbook that was developed by ARUP and Experientia. Low2No is a broad project,...
From The Noisy Channel
RecSys 2012 Industry Track
I’m proud to be co-organizing the RecSys 2012 Industry Track with Yehuda Koren. Check out the line-up: Ronny Kohavi (Microsoft), Keynote Online Controlled Experiments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Checkout Here to Stay
Correspondent Kevin Judd sends along an article making the case that the self-checkout is here to stay. I agree, the decrease in labor requirements in retail...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MiniTel to go Dark on June 30
Ars Technica reports on the closure of Minitel, the popular French precursor to the Internet, on June 30. Apparently it is still is profitable to French Telecom...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Area 51
Complexity Theory Conspiracy Theories Graham Steel is a member of Team Prosecco at INRIA Paris-Roquencourt in France. He along with Romain Bardou of the related...
From Schneier on Security
Nuclear Fears
Interesting review -- by David Roepik -- of The Rise of Nuclear Fear, by Spencer Weart: Along with contributing to the birth of the environmental movement, Weart...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Reinventing Itself
Suggestion that Microsoft is in the midst of reinventing itself, with Windows 8 and more. In particular the fact that smartphones will increasingly become our...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inserting Your Thoughts Anywhere in 3D
In FastCompany: This general idea has been around for some time, but it has never been implemented well. Consider the advertising implications." ... Itching to...