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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
There Should be an Algorithm
My high school daughter Molly was reading her Kindle and said "You know how you can choose a word and the Kindle will give you a definition. There should be anword...
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research of Davos delegates leads to some striking results
Every January, hundreds of politicians, CEOs, scientific experts, and celebrities gather for their annual meeting in the exclusive Swiss ski resort of Davos to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft HoloLens Demonstration
Saw a demonstration of Microsoft HoloLens today. An impressive see-through visor that sits on your head and can give you 3-D holographic experiences. Wirelessly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Discovery with Unsupervised Learning
Fascinating example using Bayesia's graphical methods. I like how the visualization leads to useful implications of the discovery. Easy to follow example with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Computing Book
Cognitive Computing, A Brief Guide for Game Changers by Peter Fingar, just received. I commented on early versions. They write:" ... This book is a concise...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Robots For Teaching Programming
One of my most popular posts has been a collection of links to block programming (drag and drop programming) tools and languages. The other day it occurred to me...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Product Development and Big Data
Below is an collaborative webinar featuring two groups I have done work with. And includes Tom Davenport, who included our analytics efforts at Procter & Gamble...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When to Analyze Big Data
In Smart Data Collective, by Richard Boire I like the mentions of real time data,and also that we need to look at longitudinal (historical) views to understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Xerox Licenses Thinfilm Labels
Interesting characteristics of this labeling system, with likely applications to Internet of things applications." ... Each label, costing a few pennies, is a plastic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon pulls Diaper Brand
This very notable private label introduction has been pulled after six weeks on the market. In GigaOM. They say for redesign. Do expect more examples of private...
From Schneier on Security
Defending Against Liar Buyer Fraud
It's a common fraud on sites like eBay: buyers falsely claim that they never received a purchased item in the mail. Here's a paper on defending against this fraud...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
U.S. Copyright Office Invites Public Input for 2015 DMCA Rulemaking
The U.S. Copyright Office is accepting public input on proposed exemptions to the prohibitions against circumvention under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyper Relevance in Retail
So what is hyper relevance? And all about dark assets that you are not using. Read about it in the Cisco blog.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personality Judgements by Computer
Supporting information for a proposed project:" ... This study compares the accuracy of personality judgment—a ubiquitous and important social-cognitive activity...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data, Data Science, and other Buzzwords that Really Matter
The AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows at the National Science Foundation (NSF) have organized a new seminar series on Data Science, Big Data, and Internet...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 20
January 20 President Obama will give his State of the Union address. 9 p.m., Capitol Building January 21 Hearing: The Communications and Technology Subcommittee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Mobile Business in the Enterprise
We looked at this topic a dozen years ago in the enterprise. It is not only just about phone calls, but also about how two way, interactive, data rich interactions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pizza Business Insights
In GigaOM: Case study of the use of Splunk for mining business insight by Dominos. Intrigued by the use of this new capability, especially for time domain, real...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Data in the Medical Record
In Forbes: Wearables and analytical value. Should they be in the medical record?" ... The great promise of wearables for medicine includes the opportunity for...
From Schneier on Security