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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 Schneier on Security
A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response
The National Academies Press has published Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response. When a nation or region prepares...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Screens are Better
In Think With Google: They states the obvious, but also that having your message clearly and efficiently delivered is important. We already know from lots of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video based Detection Methods
Some good points about video detection and analysis. This area continues to get more sophisticated and pervasive. Expect it to get even more common:" .... It's...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Transformative Research: Reflections on a NSF Workshop
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Michael E. Gorman, a Professor in the department of science, technology, and society (STS) at the University...
From Putting People First
Earth Institute publishes first ever World Happiness Report
The first ever World Happiness Report has been made public and states that our best chance at a contented life is to pack up and move to Scandinavia, writes Wired...
From Putting People First
Ambient Devices CEO Pritesh Gandhi on
Chris Ziegler of The Verge had a chance recently to chat with Ambient co-founder and CEO Pritesh Gandhi to hear about the company’s past, present, and future. “We’re...
From Wild WebMink
? Who Loses If Oracle Wins?
Talking to people about the Oracle-Google case which comes to court on April 16th, I realised much of the background knowledge that explains things is lost to the...
From Schneier on Security
James Randi on Magicians and the Security Mindset
Okay, so he doesn't use that term. But he explains how a magician's inherent ability to detect deception can be useful to science. We can't make magicians out...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Have You Joined Microsoft Partners in Learning?
This is one of those announcements that hits my inbox that is for all teachers in K-12. Partners in Learning is a community of educators of all subjects and age...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizaing Networks
Fraunhofer report on software that uses simulation to optimize networks. Network technology is often used to understand and make networks more efficient. A common...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at Store Behavior with Data Mining
A Spectrum IEEE Techwise Conversation with data-mining expert Eric Siegel. Your favorite stores know you all too well. President of Prediction Impact. This company...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Abacus Blog
I was just reminded of Kate Nieder's Social Abacus blog. " ... a social psych PhD who has worked in social media analysis for about 7 years. In September 2008....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Bit packing is fast, but integer logarithm is slow
In How fast is bit packing?, we saw how to store non-negative integers smaller than 2N using N bits per integer by a technique called bit packing. A careful C++...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kiosk and Mobile Connection
A less common approach, a means to deliver coupons to shopper smartphones via BlueTooth. We experimented with coupons that printed on a kiosk in store based...
From Computational Complexity
Guest post on Tom Cover by Yoav Freund
(Details on registration and student travel awards for the 2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity in Porto available at here. New York Area Theory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glasses
Much in the news: Google Glasses. The not new, but apparently improved idea of putting displays into glasses that are location aware and connected. As I mentioned...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoE to Launch
Later today, the Department of Energy (DoE) — together with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Itron, and Gridwise Alliance — will
From Schneier on Security