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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Upcoming Due Dates
Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 16, 2021 The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computer and information...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does Bad Code Lead to Good Learning?
Last week a teacher posted an interesting problem. They were looking for an explanation of why to code produced the answer that it did. The code is this: static...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intellectual Property Analysis
Connects to some of my recent work. Categorizing and usefully measuring what we have. Google proposes applying AI to patent application generation and categorization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anomaly Detection with Lacework
Brought to my attention: Lacework covers topics and issues around threat defense, intrusion detection, cloud containers, workloads, accounts, devops, and more.Anomaly...
From Schneier on Security
Insider Attack on Home Surveillance Systems
No one who reads this blog regularly will be surprised: A former employee of prominent home security company ADT has admitted that he hacked into the surveillance...
From insideHPC
Yash Technologies Partners with ScienceLogic AIOps, Digital Transformation
Chicago, Jan. 25, 2021 — YASH Technologies, a global technology services and outsourcing provider, announced a partnership with ScienceLogic, an AIOps platformYash...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Traffic Wait
Not a new thing but does it do it better with novel situations? Would be a good thing to experiment with to see how new patterns are adapted to.Optimizing Traffic...
From Putting People First
Online exhibition: Design in an Age of Crisis
The Design In An Age Of Crisis Gallery features submissions to a global open call issued in 2020 by Chatham House and London Design Biennale, inviting radical design...
From Putting People First
The Scottish Approach to Service Design (SAtSD)
The vision for the Scottish Approach to Service Design is that the people of Scotland are supported and empowered to actively participate in the definition, design...
From Putting People First
[Book] How design makes the world
From the airplane armrest to the Facebook “like” button, and everything in between, Berkun shows how design helps or hinders everyone, and offers a new way to think...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (January 24th 2021)
Year 2020 was great for PC makers. We are selling more and more PCs. Reportedly, Sony sold 3.4 million PlayStation 5 in only four weeks, a record. The demand for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Some Key Uses for BlockChain
Nicely done use cases, not much detail, but a start.Blockchain, Unchained: 5 Key Use Cases By Joe McKendrick | November 11, 2020 in RtInsightsTo achieve success...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Partners With Rhinostics for Swabs
My former employer innovates in COVID TestingP&G Partners With Rhinostics to Take Innovative Nasal Swab to Market to Improve Speed of COVID-19 Testing Press Release...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at What Makes us Run: Batteries
Battery Day. What they are and where they are going. In some ways such a primitive thing, but still very essential to make things work and be portable. . ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Around Smartphone Encryption
Being discussed, security and how it is being circumvented.How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone's Encryptionin Wired, Lily Hay Newman, January 15, 2021...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotting Risky Behavior
I was struck by this. What is high risk behavior? How is it defined, tested, updated? OK, depression, anxiety or suicide. But at any one time it might beSpotting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Translating Lost Languages Using ML
Most interesting, lots more at the link. Via patterns of association in other languages. Might this be used in ways to link with associations between otherLanguage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Propose Compiler for Homomorphic Encryption
Still with some technical barriers. See below for some details. Links to more.Researchers propose Porcupine, a compiler for homomorphic encryptionKyle Wiggers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
L'Oreal and Social Selling Platform
A Social Selling Platform: ReplikaL’Oreal Invests in Social Selling Platform as Part of E-Com Strategy By CGT Staff As part of its acceleration strategy inAs...
From The Eponymous Pickle