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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
Precision Medicine Initiative
The following is a guest blog post by Beth Mynatt, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Vice Chair and professor of Interactive Computing and the executive director...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Emotion Analysis
Well known work by Paul Ekman is covered in the WSJ. " ... The Technology that Unmasks Your Hidden Emotions ... Using Psychology and Data Mining to Discern Emotions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accenture on Technology Trends
Venturebeat: Good look at what companies are doing. Not much in detail. " ... The Accenture Technology Vision 2015 says that every business is now a digital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dimensions that Influence Location Value
Good piece in Cisco blog on the topic. Obvious yes, but the following discussion of why and how are very useful for retail applications. By Jagdish Girimaji....
From Schneier on Security
Texas School Overreaction
Seems that a Texas school has suspended a 9-year-old for threatening another student with a replica One Ring. (Yes, that One Ring.) I've written about this sort...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Research on Randomizing Tasks
I worked on a project that looked at how job tasks could be randomized in industrial processes. This research effort at MIT, fairly technical, looks at a more...
From Computational Complexity
Less elegant proofs that (2n)!/n!n! is an integer
(A conversation between Bill (the writer of this post) and Olivia (14-year old daughter of a friend.) All of the math involved is here. Bill: Do you know what...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Rules in China for Western Tech Companies
We did considerable work with Chinese retailers, attempting to understand their rapid development in conjunction with their complex infrastructure. Now new regulations...
From Schneier on Security
Hiding a Morse Code Message in a Pop Song
In Colombia: The team began experimenting with Morse code using various percussion instruments and a keyboard. They learned that operators skilled in Morse code...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 February 2015
Happy Groundhog Day! We’re having a snow day with schools closed because of a snow storm. I’m betting on six more weeks of winter. It may take that long for all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Analytics Day
The UC Center for Business Analytics will host Risk Analytics Day on February 11, 2015 8AM - 4:30PM at the Tangeman University Center (TUC) on the campus of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Wearable Private Cloud?
Interesting upcoming kickstarter. Have not looked at it seriously yet. If it makes any sense will mention it again. And its on Twitter." ... Do you trust that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hunting like a Wolf-Pack
In CACM: This is about drones. But I am intrigued regarding the group cooperative aspects of a wolf pack. A long ago project with simple robot inventory tracking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk and the Nimbleness of Brands
In K@W: " ... Brands that take bigger risks are reaping greater rewards in the world of digital marketing, write Google’s Eric Solomon and Gopi Kallayil in this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning from Videos on the Web
Learning is the ultimate AI. Accurate, unsupervised learning of readily available resources is good too.Robot Learning Manipulation Action Plans by “Watching”Yezhou...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamic Data
The Utility and Power of Dynamic DataBy Tim Smith We’re living in the data revolution, where the old view of data and how we use it is changing for companies and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Complex Technology Projects
Via Deloitte:3 Rules for Managing Complex Technology ProjectsDefine desired business outcomes, assemble the project team, and stick to a reasonable project plan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on HoloLens Research
Another view. The first practical, general purpose augmented reality systems? Interested in the design and virtual prototyping applications being suggested....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Setting your CIO Free to Innovate
In Innovation Excellence:“The CIO’s role is changing driven by cloud and an increasing number of ‘as a Service’ solutions that progressively reduce the organisations...
From The Eponymous Pickle