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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 Schneier on Security
Sharing Security Information and the Prisoner's Dilemma
New paper: Dengpan Liu, Yonghua Ji, and Vijay Mookerjee (2011), "Knowledge Sharing and Investment Decisions in Information Security," Decision Support Systems,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WellPoint Meet Watson
More on the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques for medical diagnosis. I happen to be visiting the offices of WellPoint this afternoon. Note the mention...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Marketing Automation
In E-Commerce Times: " ... There is a lot of hype around marketing automation, and it's for good reason. An effective marketing automation strategy and implementation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Seeking Proposals at the Interface of Computing, Economics
The National Science Foundation’s Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-09-15
UK business and government dangerously out of tune with cyber threats, says Chatham House – 9/15/2011 – Computer Weekly Interesting how the government is keen to...
From My Biased Coin
This Week, I Am Part of an Internet Meme
My frequent co-authors John Byers, Giorgos Zervas, and I posted an extended version of a current submission to the arxiv (as people do), which showed up last Friday...
From Schneier on Security
A Status Report: "Liars and Outliers"
It's been a long hard year, but the book is almost finished. It's certainly the most difficult book I've ever written, mostly because I've had to learn academic...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup 2012
Solving the world
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Efficient Crowdsourcing Models
In the ACM:" ... In recent years, crowdsourcing has gained more adherents as governments, businesses, and others aim to tap into the collective wisdom of crowds...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Master Class on the Science of Human Nature
In The Edge: This looks very good. " ... Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman on the marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking; Harvard mathematical biologist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd Sourcing Open Innovation with Lego
From Innovation Excellence: " ... Yes, you gotta love Lego! Not only is the company doing amazingly well during this
From Computer Science Teachers Association
I'll Have Some AppInventor with My Java, Please!
I jumped on the AppInventor bandwagon at a workshop at SIGCSE 2010 and believed that my students would really enjoy building apps for Android phones as much as...
From Apophenia
Six Provocations for Big Data
The era of “Big Data” has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and many others...
From Schneier on Security
Risk Tolerance and Culture
This is an interesting study on cultural differences in risk tolerance. The Cultures of Risk Tolerance Abstract: This study explores the links between culture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cosmetics of Youth
A piece in the local paper about a scientist at P&G that is working on Olay solutions." ... As a senior scientist at P&G's Miami Valley labs, her work won't even...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching at Girl Develop It Ottawa's Kickoff Event
Girl Develop It: "Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it." It's exactly what the Ottawa community needs: a way to engage professional...
From Computational Complexity
Conventions in Math- just to make the rules work or more?
Why is a1/2 = sqrt(a)? true? To make the rule ax+y=ax a y work out. Why is (∀ x ∈ ∅)[P(x)] true? To make the rule (∀ x ∈ A ∪ B)[P(x)] iff (∀ x ∈ A)[P(x)]...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-09-14
The Great Copyright Conspiracy Laid Bare It will come as no surprise to anyone reading here regularly, but there may be some that still don't realise their political...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Changes their Algorithm
Algorithmic improvements at Google. Its good to watch what Google is doing to know what you are getting. Are you getting more quality sites today? I find myself...
From Schneier on Security