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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
India Bets Big on 5G
Have yet to see any compelling arguments for new business models. My new phone seems to have quietly dropped the option.India Bets Big on 5G Technology Going...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Catalog is Gone
We used Ikea catalogs as examples of artistically done customer outreach. Worth noting. Ikea Just Quietly Killed Its Famous Catalog. It's a Brilliant Lesson...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Peter M. Neumann, 1940–2020
Memories from Oxford days Mathematical Institute src Peter Neumann, Professor of Mathematics at Queen’s College, Oxford University, passed away two weeks ago. Last...
From Schneier on Security
Amazon Has Trucks Filled with Hard Drives and an Armed Guard
From an interview with an Amazon Web Services security engineer: So when you use AWS, part of what you’re paying for is security. Right; it’s part of what we sell...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Forward to 2021 in CS Education
What a strange year it has been. The pandemic and more took a lot of the steam out of what I had hoped to dig deeply into in 2020. Surviving is success in these...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring
The number of researchers and peer-review publications is growing exponentially. It has been estimated that the number of researchers in the world doubles every...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Dancing, Today
From Boston Dynamics, now part of Hyundai. At the link they outline each of the dancers background. Less scary than some views. Or is it?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Next in Tech
An outline from HPEExploring What’s next in tech – Insights, information, and ideas for today’s IT and business leadersAccelerating the future. The race to stay...
From Putting People First
The Financial Times’ Gillian Tett on remote user research
From City of London traders to Indian rickshaw drivers, everyone uses a more intimate style of conversation on video calls.
From Computational Complexity
Complexity Year in Review 2020
For the result of the year we go to all they way back to the "before times". MIP*=RE by Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright and Henry YuenA...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: High Performance Christmas Episode
After a late fall hiatus, Radio Free HPC is back, baby. This is our holiday episode and we start by pledging to be 29 percent more scintillating in the new year...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back on Computer Science Education in 2020
What a year it has been. I was reading my start of the year post from January. The closing was “2019 has some serious potential.” I had no idea what was to come...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Buys Wondery for?
Though most recently have been looking through podcast offerings, had not heard of Wondery. Note too that Amazon now also has the talking book system Audible...
From Schneier on Security
Brexit Deal Mandates Old Insecure Crypto Algorithms
In what is surely an unthinking cut-and-paste issue, page 921 of the Brexit deal mandates the use of SHA-1 and 1024-bit RSA: The open standard s/MIME as extension...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Review Manipulation in Amazon
Had only just recently directly noticed fake or manipulated reviews on Amazon. Had thought that Amazon was controlling these, but then alterted to it by an ArsTechnica...
From Putting People First
Social science perspectives on artificial intelligence. A special issue.
This special issue collects six articles tackling artificial intelligence (AI) from a social science perspective.
From The Eponymous Pickle
City Researchers Reveal Link
Seems there would be a link, but what kind of behavior is indicated? Always looking for predictive behavior we can leverage.City Researchers Reveal Link Between...
From insideHPC
‘Let’s Talk Exascale’: How Supercomputing Is Shaking Up Earthquake Science
Supercomputing is bringing seismic change to earthquake science. A field that historically has predicted by looking back now is moving forward with HPC and physics...
From Schneier on Security
On the Evolution of Ransomware
Good article on the evolution of ransomware: Though some researchers say that the scale and severity of ransomware attacks crossed a bright line in 2020, others...
From The Eponymous Pickle