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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
Thinking About Risk
In the WSJ Numbers Guy: Absolute vs Relative risk. An important difference that is often misunderstood.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eyes
It seems that the huge eyes of the giant squid are optimized to see sperm whales.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Bear 71: The National Film Board of Canada's Interactive Narrative
How do you get people to care about the diminishing natural habitat of wildlife in Banff National Park and surrounding area? Telling an emotional story from the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
FTC Launches New Technology Blog
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today launched a new blog — Tech @ FTC –
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Predictive Analytics Software from IBM
CIO Insights Reports reports about new Predictive Analytic Software and services from IBM. I have thirty years of experience with the use of analytical methods...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST: $2.6 Million for Novel Semiconductor Research
On Tuesday, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a solicitation
From The Eponymous Pickle
KC to Market in a Digital World
About how Kimberly Clark plans to market in a digital world. Semantics or a key subtlety?" .. Spurring growth for such brands as Huggies, Cottonelle and Scott"It's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Smarts in the Smart Grid
In CACM: I visited and presented at GE's Smart Grid Center in Atlanta last year. They are doing some very impressive things and presenting the results to industry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotfire Social
I was an early user of Spotfire, now Tibco Spotfire. An impressive package for deep data visualization and delivery. They have added a number of social features...
From Computational Complexity
David Waltz (1943-2012)
David Waltz, head of the Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia, passed away yesterday after a battle with a brain tumor at the age of 68. David...
From Wild WebMink
? Will mobile devices trigger the year of the Linux desktop?
The enterprise IT world is coming to grips with a new buzz-TLA; “BYOD”. It stands for Bring Your Own Device and considers the way employees are bringing their own...
From Schneier on Security
The Economist Debate on Airplane Security
On The Economist website, I am currently debating Kip Hawley on airplane security. On Tuesday we posted our initial statements, and today (London time) we posted...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Ready For Windows 8
Like almost everyone at Microsoft I have been hard at work getting ready for Windows 8. I
From The Noisy Channel
Claudia Perlich: Tech Talk on Real-Time Bidding Optimization
Conventional wisdom holds that physical compliments are counter-productive as pick-up lines. Indeed, a dating site did some analysis showing a negative correlation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lifebrowser Lets You Explore Your Past
Clever idea, from Microsoft, that could have application for mining important aspects of corporate history for training: ... " Prototype software called Lifebrowser...
From Computational Complexity
A Busy Time of The Year
It's spring break week at Northwestern so life is supposed to be quiet. No such luck. Endre Szemer
From The Eponymous Pickle
I am Available
Every now and then I pop in here to remind people that I am a consultant. I get many queries from my writing in this blog. I have just had two large projects...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Flexibility and Creativity in Teaching
Hack Education has an interesting interview with Laura Blankenship, a computer science teacher in Pennsylvania. I think it's great the flexibility Laura demonstrates...
From The Eponymous Pickle