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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
Data Science for the Masses
Paper by a colleague. Kirk Borne. This is not just about Astronomy science data, but broadly applicable to science and industryThe Revolution in Astronomy Education...
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High Speed 3D Microscope
In Kurzweil: A microscope to take high speed 3D recordings of living things. " ... A Columbia University scientist has developed a new microscope that can image...
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Content Engineering and AI
Short piece by Omri Astel made me think about how ad content can be engineered based upon the audience. Early steps have been taken in this direction. For example...
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Smart Phones Altering Brains
In the BBC: Based on EEG studies. It is notable that this is a small N study: " .. Study author Arko Ghosh, from the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the...
From Schneier on Security
The IDEA Encryption Algorithm with a 128-bit Block Length
Here's an IDEA-variant with a 128-bit block length. While I think it's a great idea to bring IDEA up to a modern block length, the paper has none of the cryptanalysis...
From Apophenia
Baby Boaz
Boaz Lotan Boyd saw the blizzard coming and knew it was time for him to enter this world. At 4PM on Monday, January 26, a little ball of fuzzy cuteness let out...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 26
January 27 Conference: The 2015 State of the Net Conference takes place. 8 a.m., The Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue Hearing: The Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade...
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Ontologies of Jobs and their Related Tasks and Data
Last year I posted the text below. Am now in the midst of working on an effort to classify jobs and included tasks to determine how they can be linked to cognitive...
From Computational Complexity
A nice problem from a Romanian Math Problem Book
(All of the math for this problem is here)My Discrete Math Honors TA Ioana showed me a Romanian Math Problem book(She is Romanian) and told the following problem...
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EU Internet of Things Architecture Project
I was pointed to this site which reports on the completion of an EU project on IOT architecture. I like its form. Its first goal: " ... an architectural reference...
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Wrist Smart Marketing
In Retailwire: In-store broadcasting to Smart Watches. More from InMarket. I see they are looking at the behavioral interaction between shopper and wearable....
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Platfora Solution
This Platfora solution was recently mentioned to me. Examining." ... The only complete solution out there. Platfora is the only end-to-end software platform to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence
The following is a guest blog post by Tom Dietterich, current president for The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and Eric Horvitz...
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Can Big Data Give us Bionic Brains?
Deloitte Analytics report talks about "Bionic Brains"Juha Hulkkonen, Business Development Leader at IBM, writes: "The So What" section in Deloitte Analytics report...
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Internet of Things from Davos
Correspondent Shoumen Datta of MIT sends along his PDF presentation on the Internet of Systems from Davos. Always an interesting and a strongly visual resource...
From Schneier on Security
Basaaly Moalin: The One "Terrorist" Caught by Section 215 Surveillance
Remember back in 2013 when the then-director of the NSA Keith Alexander claimed that Section 215 bulk telephone metadata surveillance stopped "fifty-four different...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 January 2015
A new semester starts for me today. Since I only teach semester courses that means a whole new group of students to meet and teach. I have spent much of the weekend...
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Herb Simon's Last Lecture
From the currently ongoing AAAI conference via Jim Spohrer. On Herb Simon. I was most most interested in his work about systematizing decision making and AI,Herb...
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Microsoft Surface Hub
Saw a demonstration of this last week, Microsoft Surface Hub, with the aim to make it useable from phones to large touch screens using the upcoming Windows 10....
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