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Google Knowledge Graphs, Knowledge Panels
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Knowledge Graphs, Knowledge Panels

Want to build from these basics. an introduction:A reintroduction to our Knowledge Graph and knowledge panelsDanny Sullivan In Google BlogPublic Liaison for Search...

CIFellows 2020 Application Guidelines Updated and May 26th Webinar
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CIFellows 2020 Application Guidelines Updated and May 26th Webinar

Last week the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced the new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for...

Criminals and the Normalization of Masks
From Schneier on Security

Criminals and the Normalization of Masks

I was wondering about this: Masks that have made criminals stand apart long before bandanna-wearing robbers knocked over stagecoaches in the Old West and ski-masked...

Like People, AI will also Fail.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Like People, AI will also Fail.

A very nicely done, non-technical and usefully skeptical view of AI. Making the case that even if your AI solves a problem today, it is likely to fail tomorrow,...

Forestry System for Growth Prediction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Forestry System for Growth Prediction

Another example of my previous work in forestry.    Would have been useful to manage harvesting schedules.Researcher to Receive Top Global Forestry Award From Swedish...

From Computational Complexity

Obit for Richard Dudley

Richard M. (Dick) Dudley died on Jan. 19, 2020 (NOT from Coronavirus).You can find obituaries for him  here, here, and here and an interview with him from 2019...

CCC Embedded Security Workshop Report Released
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Embedded Security Workshop Report Released

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released the Leadership in Embedded Security workshop report. The workshop was organized by former CCC Council...

Teaching is About Relationships
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Teaching is About Relationships

Today I was online with my students for about 90 minutes of a planned 55 minute class. One of my students joined the Google Meet session early and we chatted for...

Spot Herding Sheep and other Farm Tasks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Spot Herding Sheep and other Farm Tasks

Intrigued by the use of robotics for agricultural and other classic farming  applications.  Here the use of the Boston Dynamics Spot ... and a link to a video of...

Why We Need Bayesian
From The Eponymous Pickle

Why We Need Bayesian

This link is first a reminder to myself that we need to continually promote means of risk and uncertainty awareness in models.    Meta-reasoning is always important...

Augmented Paper as a New Media
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Paper as a New Media

Good illustrations at the link. Clever thought,  we still will use paper (and other media)  How can we effectively get important virtual content there too.  Saw...

Apple, Google and Europe on Contact Tracing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apple, Google and Europe on Contact Tracing

Continuing to follow this. Since Europe has different ideas about security,  some disagreement was inevitable.Apple, Google Start to Win Over Europe to Their Virus...

Alternatives to Powerpoint
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alternatives to Powerpoint

I used to take a stronger point on this, but now think that powerpoint works, is understood by many people,  and I have lots of my previous presentations therePowerPoint...

AI and Cybersecurity
From Schneier on Security

AI and Cybersecurity

Ben Buchanan has written "A National Security Research Agenda for Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence." It's really good -- well worth reading....

Now Available: Country-Based Evaluation of Websites for Acceptance of Email Addresses in 2020
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

Now Available: Country-Based Evaluation of Websites for Acceptance of Email Addresses in 2020

The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has published a new country-based evaluation of email acceptance rates based upon previous testing of the top 1,000...

Microwaves Sensing Your Health?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microwaves Sensing Your Health?

This struck me at first as being even more interesting than it actually seems to be:  Detect what machines you are using. And derive some health measures from behavior...

A Test of Time: COAST and an award-winning paper
From CERIAS Blog

A Test of Time: COAST and an award-winning paper

The Paper IEEE Test of Time Award Today, various awards were announced at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, including Test of Time Awards. One...

A Test of Time: COAST and an award-winning paper
From CERIAS Blog

A Test of Time: COAST and an award-winning paper

The Paper IEEE Test of Time Award Today, various awards were announced at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, including Test of Time Awards. One...

A Test of Time: COAST and an award-winning paper
From CERIAS Blog

A Test of Time: COAST and an award-winning paper

The Paper IEEE Test of Time Award Today, various awards were announced at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, including Test of Time Awards. One...

Pandemic Disruptions of Education:
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pandemic Disruptions of Education:

Had an idea that universities would change greatly.    Was struck by the prediction below.  My own was more process-systematic.  That Universities would be replaced...
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