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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Queen of Code – Grace Hopper
There is a new movie about Grace Hopper out in the Internet. The movie is about 16 minutes look and I think it is pretty good. I’m looking for a place in my schedule...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd Governance Using the Wikipedia
This upcoming talk is intriguing:OBAIS Seminar SeriesOBAIS Seminar SeriesCrowd Governance: The Monitoring Role of Wikipedia in the Financial Market.Ms Weifang Wu...
From Computational Complexity
Reusing Data from Privacy
Vitaly Feldman gave a talk at Georgia Tech earlier this week on his recent paper Preserving Statistical Validity in Adaptive Data Analysis with Cynthia Dwork, Moritz...
From Schneier on Security
Canada Spies on Internet Downloads
Another story from the Snowden documents: According to the documents, the LEVITATION program can monitor downloads in several countries across Europe, the Middle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DashDB Announced as Sandbox Solution
In particular, presenting the sandbox idea for connecting analytics to data warehouses. Analytics often requires the ability to test multiple methods and data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computing Now Startup Channel
A Channel, ok a blog, that includes posts and links about computing startups. Have followed the parent Computing Now magazine for years, always very well done. ...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop
The following is a guest blog post by Thyagarajan Nandagopal, National Science Foundation (NSF) Program Director for Computer and Network Systems (CNS). The NSF...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customization Nation with Services and Supply Chain
In Retailwire: Thoughts about the meaning of services in retail. Beyond the classic offering of a selection of products. New changes in the relationship of"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metamind vs Watson
Useful piece in KDNuggets: In recent conversations with decision makers in the enterprise, see they are always emphasizing the need for more technology as a service...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Washington News – Alerts and Updates
General News • USACM issued a press statement on President Obama’s comments on privacy and security in his State of the Union address. • ACM’s Annual Report FY2014...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Role of the CIO
The changing role. But consider the role too of formulating and directing technical innovation strategy as it applies to the needs of the company.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Extensible Distributed Systems Workshop
Contributions to this post were made by Lorenzo Alvisi, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at...
From Schneier on Security
Subconscious Keys
I missed this paper when it was first published in 2012: "Neuroscience Meets Cryptography: Designing Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks" Abstract...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinventing Supply Chains
From Bain: Reinventing. Something we did every few years, and quite successfully. Most recently just a few years ago. Here are two public examples: A Data...
From Schneier on Security
Police Using Radar that Sees Through Walls
In the latest example of a military technology that has secretly been used by the police, we have radar guns that can see through walls....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brands Want Actionable Insight
In AdAge: What we have said for a long time, and why we are still uncertain about the BigData term. " ... Agencies: Does Your Data Pass the 'So-What' Test? .....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Scientist Recipient of 2015 NAS William O. Baker Award
Congratulations to Benjamin Recht, assistant professor of electrical engineering, computer science, and statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, for...
From Putting People First
Big Data and Small: Collaborations between ethnographers and data scientists
In the past three years, Heather Ford — an ethnographer and now a PhD student — has worked on ad hoc collaborative projects around Wikipedia sources with two data...
From Putting People First
New Wikipedia page on “Design for behaviour change”
The new Wikipedia page on “Design for behaviour change” starts as follows: “Design for behaviour change is a sub-category of design, which is concerned with how...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog