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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
On the Dark Side of Teams
In Knowledge@Wharton: Research Roundup: The 'Dark Side' of Teams; the Risks of Social Comparisons; and the Transfer of Entrepreneurial SkillsDoes working in teams...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Melding the Real and Virtual Worlds
Bringing together real and virtual worlds.? No, I still can tell the difference. " ... Social science studies increasingly suggest that the divide between...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procurement Freshly Examined
Bain looks at procurement in some detail. A crucial issue in organizations:" ... Rising commodity costs and volatility in input prices have become facts of life...
From Wild WebMink
? Profitable Freedom
My column on InfoWorld today connects the dots of the pragmatic value of software freedom to the CIO and the success of Red Hat. Open source delivers cost saving...
From The Noisy Channel
Data 2.0 Summit
I’ll be participating in the Data 2.0 Summit on Tuesday, April 3rd, and I hope to see some of you there. Last year, my colleague (and fellow LinkedIn data scientist)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Sanjeev Arora Named Winner of 2011 ACM-Infosys Award
Congratulations to Sanjeev Arora, the Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science at Princeton, who yesterday was named the recipient of the 2011 ACM-Infosys...
From Computational Complexity
The Value of an Academic Publication
Russell O'Connor's paper was accepted into last years ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming. Russell put the final version of his paper on the ArXiv under...
From Wild WebMink
? OSI Affiliate Scheme Grows
It’s been an open secret all month, but two new members have joined the Affiliate scheme at OSI – Spain’s CENATIC (the national open source competency centre that’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Imaging Patents at Apple
An interesting patent description from Apple on 3D imaging patents. And some additional information on 3D imaging developments. Useful for retail context applications...
From My Biased Coin
The Groupon effect on Yelp ratings (Guest Post)
Giorgos Zervas discusses our recent paper (just accepted to EC).A few months ago, in a paper that eventually appeared at WSDM 2012, John, Michael and I (Giorgos)...
From Wild WebMink
Available For US Engagements
I expect to be in the USA in early-to-mid May (and possibly again in July). If you would like me to speak at a private or public event, or to provide consulting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cross Posting in Pinterest and GPlus
Starting immediately, select posts from this blog will be cross posted in Pinterest and G+ under my name as an experiment. Follow them there as this idea and design...
From Schneier on Security
Summer Schools in Cryptography and Software Security at Penn State
Normally I just delete these as spam, but this summer program for graduate students 1) looks interesting, and 2) has some scholarship money available.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chains Benefit From Information Sharing
This is obvious. Collaboration is important at strategic and tactical levels. But the details are worth repeating. " ... In a report by SCM World, 49.1% of buyers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Process: Making Analytics Work for Every Company
When I worked with analytical methods in the big enterprise, it was often the case that work had already been done to map out the business processes involved. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Check Outs of the Past
LA Times Article: On the state of the supermarket checkout and coming expected migration to smartphones. With a pointer to technologies of times past that we...
From Computational Complexity
Sanjeev Arora wins ACM-Infosys Award
Sanjeev Arora will receive the 2011 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, the highest honor ACM gives to a mid-career scientist. Sanjeev Arora is one of the architects...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Obama Administration Unveils $200M Big Data R&D Initiative
The Obama Administration has unveiled details
From Schneier on Security
Harms of Post-9/11 Airline Security
As I posted previously, I have been debating former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley on the Economist website. I didn't bother reposting my opening statement and rebuttal...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog