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From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive and Neuromorphic Computing

On the reasons for the re-emergence of AI as cognitive computing. In the Economist:" ... Cognitive computing is AI redux. Researchers took the successful bits... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 10, 2015 at 12:41 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Abductive Reasoning, Sensemaking and Design

Via Brian Moon or Perigean Technologies, who writes on making sense of knowledge via methods like concept mapping. Good piece at link.Abductive Thinking and Sensemaking... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 10, 2015 at 09:58 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Cmap Tools now Available for iPad

Cmap is the best known general concept mapping tool, which we tested in the enterprise. Previously noted about this in test last year. See previous posts here... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 10, 2015 at 08:49 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Meets Machine Learning

In KDNuggets: An overview of the Watson ecosystem from a recent presentation. Examples in healthcare and education. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 10, 2015 at 08:22 AM

From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Dumpling Squid and Sex

This just in: the threat of being eaten doesn't deter dumpling squid from having sex. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 9, 2015 at 06:46 PM

From Schneier on Security

Smart Pipe

Pretty impressive surveillance-economy satire.... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 9, 2015 at 02:35 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Sports Tactics and Conversion Rates

In Conversioner: Nicely done short piece that brings together a number of data and behavioral process methods to address selling. " ... Surprisingly, competitive... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 9, 2015 at 10:06 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Criticizing Neuromarketing

I have been connected to two startups in the neuromarketing domain. Is the hype fading for non conscious interaction applications of the neural kind? Have seen... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 9, 2015 at 09:57 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Reality Projector Interfaces

In Computing Now An example of new approaches to collaborative interface. Haptic (touch) included.Spatial User Interfaces for Large-Scale Projector-Based Augmented... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 9, 2015 at 08:32 AM

From Schneier on Security

Further Evidence Pointing to North Korea as Sony Hacker

The FBI has provided more evidence: Speaking at a Fordham Law School cybersecurity conference Wednesday, Comey said that he has "very high confidence" in the FBI's... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 9, 2015 at 07:24 AM

From Putting People First

Quali-quantitative experiments in a Big Data world

Complementary social science? Quali-quantitative experiments in a Big Data world Anders Blok and Morten Axel Pedersen University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 9, 2015 at 06:41 AM

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

There Are Many Primes

Various senses of ‘many’ from proofs of the infinitude of primes 2008 Bowen Lectures source Hillel Furstenberg is entering his 50th years as a professor of mathematics... Pip
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | January 8, 2015 at 11:00 PM

From Schneier on Security

How Browsers Store Passwords

Good information on how Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox store user passwords.... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 8, 2015 at 06:50 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Third Party Sellers Set Record

In Retailwire: Have been involved with a third party seller on Amazon for some time. The process and dynamics are interesting to watch. The data use claim is... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 8, 2015 at 05:18 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Forbes on Watson Analytics

An overview of the idea. Continuing to follow. Have mentioned I think there are some useful integrated visualizations here that are quite good. Still unclear... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 8, 2015 at 04:31 PM

From Schneier on Security

Hacking Attack Causes Physical Damage at German Steel Mill

This sort of thing is still very rare, but I fear it will become more common: ...hackers had struck an unnamed steel mill in Germany. They did so by manipulating... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 8, 2015 at 04:16 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Hidden Costs of Manual Data Collection

The RFCode site blog was just brought to my attention. My investigation into data costs and data asset value led me to this. They have an Infographic on the cost... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 8, 2015 at 01:14 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Applications to 2015 LiSPI now accepted till January 23rd

The following is a Computing Research Policy Blog post by Brian Mosley, CRA Policy Analyst. Just wanted to put up a quick post that due to extra availability we... Helen Vasaly
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | January 8, 2015 at 12:10 PM

From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Fast unary decoding

Computers store numbers in binary form using a fixed number of bits. For example, Java will store integers using 32 bits (when using the int type). This can be... Daniel Lemire
From Daniel Lemire's Blog | January 8, 2015 at 10:45 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Classic Computer Chip at age 40: The 8080

In CWorld: I did some direct programming on this chip, so the milestone is historic for me. Where is the microprocessor going? Good background and directional... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 8, 2015 at 10:04 AM