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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
Branding the Brain
A critical review of consumer neuroscience. Quite a lot of worthwhile interesting detail in both the scientific and commercial aspects ... " ... To appreciate...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Issues Consensus Paper on Postdoctoral Fellowships
Last February, the Computing Research Association (CRA) — the umbrella organization of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) — launched an effort to engage the...
From Computational Complexity
Scott wins the Waterman
The NSF's most prestigious prize, the Alan T. Waterman award, recognizes an outstanding young scientist (35 or under) in any field of science or engineering. Breaking...
From Wild WebMink
? OIN
Are you safer from software patents today, or more at risk? The news that the Open Invention Network (OIN) has extended the definition of “Linux” so that more software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Migrating to the Cloud
In Computing Now: About Testing, quality and security concerns for migration to the Cloud. . Some useful comments on important considerations.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Bastion: Narrating Your Every Move
Who knew that having your every move narrated back to you could be so satisfying? Far from annoying, the compelling nature of the voice-overs in Bastion demonstrate...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Two Computer Scientists Receive 2012 Alan Waterman Award
For the first time in the 37-year history of the distinguished honor, the National Science Foundation (NSF) today named two individuals — both computer scientists...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Teaching with Lousy Health
There are about 1800 students at Henry M. Gunn HS (Palo Alto, CA). Enrollment in CS has grown from 90 students three years ago to 110 to 130 last year to 190 this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beauty Packaging to Link Real and Virtual Worlds
This was an area we explored at length. During a visit to China in 2003 I saw a remarkable number of examples in retail spaces. Now QR codes and smartphones...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cray Takes on Big Data
Via Mark Montgomery of KYield. ... Supercomputing and big data appliances. Venerable Cray take a plunge into the thirst for big data understanding and analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Tries Finances
In another move forward for AI-style interactions, IBM is working with Citicorp:" ... IBM and Citigroup recently announced plans to explore how America's favorite...
From Wild WebMink
? Lessig! Doctorow! London!
The Open Rights Conference is coming up in London on March 24 and has a glittering array of speakers including Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow. Read all about...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visualization Technologies for Human-Environment Interactions
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) — the newest of the national synthesis centers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) focused...
From Schneier on Security
Cloud Computing As a Man-in-the-Middle Attack
This essay uses the interesting metaphor of the man-in-the-middle attacker to describe cloud providers like Facebook and Google. Basically, they get in the middle...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Register for CSTA's 2012 Annual CS&IT Conference
CSTA's Annual CS&IT Conference This is the big and best professional development event of the year for middle and high school computer science educators. The program...
From The Noisy Channel
Making Love with Data: Avinash Kaushik
Just watch the presentation, which stole the show at Strata 2012. The written word cannot do justice to Avinash’s passion and his extraordinary ability to communicate...
From Schneier on Security
NSA's Secure Android Spec
The NSA has released its specification for a secure Android. One of the interesting things it's requiring is that all data be tunneled through a secure VPN: Inter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Shopper Centric e-Book
From DemandTec. This was precisely the approach we emphasized for many years within the enterprise. It is all about how the shopper behaves in their increasingly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uplift Modeling
A new term? The term perhaps, but we have been doing this new thing for years. It deserves attention, now being lionized as the next big thing in predictive...
From The Eponymous Pickle