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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
Wolfram Alpha Pro
The full announcement on Wolfram Alpha Pro. Quite impressive detail. A useful front end to business analytics? Plan to take a much closer look and report back...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Energy Usage
IBM report on smarter energy usage: " .. . From our prior surveys, we know consumers like the idea of having cleaner power options, and more control and efficiency...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NAE Elects its Class of 2012
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has just announced the election of 66 new members and 10 foreign associates, including a number of esteemed computing...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Research as Exploration
Check out this talk that asks the question 'What would it take to create a moonshot factory?' It's given by Michael Crow of Arizona State University as part ofWe...
From Schneier on Security
Security Implications of "Lower-Risk Aircraft"
Interesting paper: Paul J. Freitas (2012), "Passenger aviation security, risk management, and simple physics," Journal of Transportation Security. Abstract: Since...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Alpha Pro
Wolfram Alpha Pro is here, and only $4 a month. In Technology Review. Democratizing data analaysis in some new ways, both structured and unstructured. It has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding out Where an Image Originated
Wired provides a good how-to that details some services that allow you to find out where an image on the web originated. Useful to have at hand.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Promise Health Check
All about brand promise, aka brand equity. Does it still make sense? " .. Most people want to know how to determine if they have a strong and compelling promise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trends shaping Business Intelligence and Analytics
In TDWI: 5 Macro Trends Shaping next Generation BI and Analytics. Useful thoughts. " .. Although the business intelligence (BI) market is growing again at...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
House Takes Another Crack at Updating NITRD
Yesterday the House Science, Space and Technology Committee approved legislation updating the High Performance Computing Act of 1991. That law, among other things...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Thoughts on CS & STEM Higher-ed Enrollments
I've recently come across two perspectives on undergraduate enrollments, one about STEM disciplines, one specifically about CS. Both warrant comment. First, there's...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Effective compression using frame-of-reference and delta coding
Most generic compression techniques are based on variations on run-length encoding (RLE) and Lempel-Ziv compression. Compared to these techniques and on the right...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at Text
Bill Inmon takes a general, non technical look at the problem of dealing with textual data. It remains a more difficult form of data to deal with. He introduces...
From Computational Complexity
The 17x17 problem SOLVED! (also 18x18)
THE 17x17 PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED!!!!! On Nov 30, 2009 I posted here the following challenge: If someone emails me a 4-coloring of 17x17 with no monochromatic...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST to Fund Pilot Projects Advancing Trusted Identities
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced last week a new competition to fund pilot projects that accelerate progress toward “improved...
From Schneier on Security
Solving the Underlying Economic Problem of Internet Piracy
This essay is definitely thinking along the correct directions.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Hand Scanning at Fresh & Easy
From the comments, Clive Black links to a more detailed article on the Fresh & Easy Scanning, including some pictures. Based on the pictures shown, there were...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hand Scanning at Fresh & Easy
More on another test of shopper barcode hand scanning to improve the checkout process and provide targeted promotions. Note this uses dedicated devices rather...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The New Science of Teaching and Learning
What do you get when you mix psychology, education, and neuroscience? For Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, you get MBE (Mind, Brain, and Education) Science. I recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle