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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
What happens when you get more Ph.D.s?
Following the fall of the USSR, hundreds of world class mathematicians emigrated to the USA. Intuitively, this should have made American mathematics stronger. Did...
From Apophenia
Are Librarians Encouraging Public Libraries to Abide by COPPA?
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) was created to prevent corporations from collecting data about children without parental permission. This law...
From Computational Complexity
Aggie for a Day
About 25 years ago I visited a college friend, David Jackson, then a grad student at Texas A&M. He was a Ph.D. student in Food Science doing his doctorate research...
From Schneier on Security
Covert Communications Channel in Tarsiers
Marissa A. Ramsier, Andrew J. Cunningham, Gillian L. Moritz, James J. Finneran, Cathy V. Williams, Perry S. Ong, Sharon L. Gursky-Doyen, and Nathaniel J. Dominy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 February 2012
Happy President
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commercial Drones
I read an article recently about a commercial drone being shot down. Then this NYT article about how commercial drones are now allowed in general. Heard ofA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Codes for a Timeclock
Colleague Walter Riker sends along an interesting application for QR codes. Using them as a contactless time and attendance system. Simple idea. See theTimestation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Floating Cities
Mark J Perry points us to markets in floating cities. And the Seasteading Institute. Floating pioneer cities for everyone. Designed to inspire communities around...
From Wild WebMink
? LibreOffice Video
Loved this new video that introduces LibreOffice in an easy and understandable way. It would be great to have some more LibreOffice videos like this and I know...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CMapTools
On concept maps, which were much used in the enterprise: " ... Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. They include concepts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Informs Business Analytics
I see that several former colleagues of mine are speaking at the upcoming Informs Business Analytics conference. (April 15-17, Huntington Beach, CA) Check outInforms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accenture Tech Vision
A general but well put view of our tech technical future by Accenture." ...This next revolution will differ from previous disruptions. This time, technology is...
From Writing
Got slow download but fast upload speeds over wireless? Here's a fix.
If you find that your wireless download speeds are abysmal while your uploads speeds are pretty solid, especially with Apple devices, I've got a possible solution...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Braille-Like Texting Using One Finger Gestures
A prototype App developed at Ga Tech to allow texting via a touch screen. Includes video." Georgia Tech researchers have designed a texting solution that could...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target Analytics: Bridging the Uncanny Valley
Predictive analytics at Target. Target can tell you about some intimate health details of the purchasers of goods in its stores and reveals it knows this information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data a Magnet for Startups
In CNet: " ... Armies of entrepreneurs are trying to make money sifting through mountains of data from the Web and other sources, but one of the biggest challenges...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF/CISE Holding CAREER Proposal Writing Workshops
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has announced that it will hold two workshops later...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Launches Childrens Safe Drinking Water Facebook Site
As reported in on the P&G Alumni site. Connect here. " ... We are pleased to announce that the P&G Alumni Network has a complimentary, additional way to raise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apps as Smartphone Spyware
Good piece on the ACM outlining how many smartphone Apps are spyware. Disappointing that this is not revealed upfront. Is it part of what we should expect for...
From Schneier on Security