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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
Bayesian Plumbing under Uncertainty
Good short piece on the potential for using Bayesian networks to simulate aspecst of the Internet of things (IOT). The open question on many of these kinds of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Abstraction Methods
Instructive piece on methods in use today:In February IEEE Computing Now:An Anarchy of Methods: Current Trends in How Intelligence Is Abstracted in AI ... How should...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How to Fish for Squid
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife explains how to fish for squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Computing on Film
Another look at the recent Turing film. Some interesting points. Did he invent the computer? Well not the general purpose ones we expect today" ..... The movie...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NAE Elects CCC Council Member Daniela Rus!
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 67 new members and 12 foreign members. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Daniela Rus is...
From Writing
Are static typing and functional programming winning?
Inspired by a reddit discussion, I decided to create short blog post to ask two questions:Is static typing winning?Is functional programming winning?In other words...
From Writing
Are static typing and functional programming winning?
Inspired by a reddit discussion, I decided to create short blog post to ask two questions:
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE AD Issues Letter to Community on FY 16 Budget Rollout
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Adds Services to Developer Cloud
In SiliconAngle: Notable to me is the speech to text capability. But the added analytics are also good directons. I am in the midst of working with startups"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Next for Data Security in Retail?
In Retailwire: " ... According to Boston Retail Partners' 2015 POS/Customer Engagement Benchmarking Survey, payment security ranked among the top three priorities...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Using Hacker Research and Results
In the latest article based on the Snowden documents, the Intercept is reporting that the NSA and GCHQ are piggy-backing on the work of hackers: In some cases,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovative Cloud Computing
In February IEEE Computing Now:Achieving Dynamic Capabilities with Cloud ComputingHear how senior IT executives are maximizing their organizations’ dynamic adaptability...
From Schneier on Security
GPG Financial Difficulties
Werner Koch, who has been maintaining the GPG email encryption program since 1997, is going broke and considering quitting. Updates to the article say that, because...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass Still Alive in the Enterprise
In CIO Mag: Showing that despite all the bad press and ridicule it has its place in focused applications.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Expertise On Demand
The following is a guest blog post by Sharoda Paul, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) CI Fellow now Collaboration Researcher at GE Global Research. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Expert is not Good Enough: Inserting Advice
Professor Wayne Gray of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute gave an excellent talk today at the Cognitive Systems Institute Thursday talk series: Expert is not good...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The New Marketing Golden Age
Long piece, lots of interesting thoughts. I have been involved in many parts of these efforts, not all successful. Though the tech is fictionalized, it did happen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CogSketch
Very interesting project. We examined a number of ways to make people more visually creative, including training groups to improve their ability to sketch. Many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beacons and Retail Shelf Labels
We did much work with electronic shelf labels (ESL). See the link below for much more. Quite natural to connect them to the beacon idea as part of retail infrastructure...
From Computational Complexity