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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 Computational Complexity
Solution to the Alice-Bob-Box problem.
In my last blog I solved one problem and asked another (when will it end!). Damien Roberts provided an answer in the comments to the last blog, so kudos to Damien...
From Schneier on Security
Futuristic Cyberattack Scenario
This is a piece of near-future fiction about a cyberattack on New York, including hacking of cars, the water system, hospitals, elevators, and the power grid. Although...
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research to improve the City of New York’s digital services
A team including the Public Policy Lab (a New York City non-profit) worked with New York City’s Chief Digital Officer and her staff to use ethnographic research...
From Putting People First
Design research at the New York Times
The pressure to anticipate an audience’s needs and desires is intense—no longer only of concern to business sides of media organizations but a part of the editorial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pokemon Go and Retail
Is Pokemon Go the new phenomenon, and will it bring augmented reality mainstream? I do remember when this was expected of 4 Square too. Interesting emerging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Driven Business Strategies
I like the closer to business process premise .... Following up.TealiumGartner Report: Mastering Data and Analytics: ‘Table Stakes’ for Digital BusinessExecutive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New: Digital Industry Insider
Digital Industry Insider: "The future of industry is digital. GE and BI Studios have co-created Digital Industry Insider, dedicated to bringing you what you need...
From insideHPC
Allinea to Share Top Tips for Code Modernization at XSEDE16
Today, Allinea announced that the company will be exhibiting at XSEDE16 July 17-21 in Miami. The conference will attract an audience across industry and academia...
From insideHPC
Video: Dr. Zoe Cournia on the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
As the first recipient of the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC, Dr Zoe Cournia was selected for her outstanding contributions and impact on HPC in Europe on a global...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen on CPG Innovation
In FoodNavigator:Nielsen unveils 2016 breakthrough innovation winners: There will be more change in CPG in the next five years than there was in the last 50In 2015...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Building a Matrix?
In Adage:What could the Alphatrix look like?If Alphabet has its way, in a few years, we'll be living in connected homes intelligently powered by Google Home wearing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Ecosystems
Continuing a look at modern ontology capabilities, We did work with Stanford's KSL to build ontologies of corporate data.Semantic EcosystemsCreate a semantic ecosystem...
From insideHPC
Video: A NASA Perspective on El Niño
In this video, Steven Pawson discussed how NASA uses computer models to build up a complete three-dimensional picture of El Niño in the ocean and atmosphere. Pawson...
From insideHPC
Call for Proposals: Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC16
The Intel HPC Developer Conference has issued its Call for Proposals. Held in conjunction with SC16, the event takes place Nov. 12-13 in Salt Lake City. The post...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Digital Work Methods Needed
Again, I would point to some of our work on this to first and foremost getting all the right data to people as they need it to both support decisions and make constraints...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Importance of Carefully Considering Outliers
Good short piece by Rick Delgado on the concept of outliers. Very important that both the analyst and the decision maker understands this idea as it relates to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Picking a Platform for Teaching Mobile App Development
Come late August I’ll be teaching a course in Mobile Application Development. It seemed like a great idea when we were discussing new courses to add to the program...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Stuffed Squid with Chard and Potatoes
Looks like a tasty recipe. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Models Improving Automated Decisions
Useful points, Though there is is the question on 'how predictive' and how precise such models can be.How Predictive Models Improve Automated DecisionsWritten...
From The Eponymous Pickle