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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
TED Talks on Memory
An hour long, multiple episode talk on the topic of human memory. " ... Memory Games ... Memory is malleable, dynamic and elusive. In this hour, TED speakers discuss...
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IKEA Hacks
Hacking IKEA products. In Gizmodo. Fun but not very exciting. Meanwhile IKEA is legally threatening the site because the site has advertising. Does not match...
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Blog Statistics
Around new year I review some blog statistics. Last December was a new record for monthly blog visits, a total of 28,542.
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On a Data Analytics Champion
In CIO: Suggesting that every organization needs a data analytics champion. I agree. But its success depends strongly on how you enable capabilities and reward...
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Interactive Intent Modeling
A natural interaction of user and their behavior. Note a number of recent posts in a related topic that uses personality modeling. Here a hybrid approach. Currently...
From Putting People First
The business of design consulting
Robert Fabricant, who moved from design consultancy Frog to development consultancy Dalberg, writes that the business of design consulting is undergoing mass extinction...
From Putting People First
The need for design history in HCI
Carl DiSalvo, an associate professor in the Digital Media program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is struck that there is very little design history in...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Senate Confirms Three Commissioners To The Election Assistance Commission
For several months the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has been without any Commissioners. In December the Senate confirmed three nominees as Commissioners...
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Judea Pearl Keynote Address
Keynote Lecture at the 2014 BayesiaLab User ConferenceSeptember 23, 2014, Los Angeles, CaliforniaFrom Bayesian Networks to Causal and Counterfactual Reasoning Judea...
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Chief Analytics Officer
The Ultimate Big Data job? I don't know many of these positions around. The article does a good job in describing what they could be. Also a look at the differences...
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Open Source Code not always Safe
In CWorld: Very good points made here about the use of software libraries. Ran into exactly this problem a little while ago. Just because everyone can see the...
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Choose the Right Innovation Method
In the HBR: " ... In the industries plagued by the most uncertainty, how do companies hold on to their ability to innovate? And how do they achieve, and keep, an...
From Schneier on Security
More Data on Attributing the Sony Attack
An analysis of the timestamps on some of the leaked documents shows that they were downloaded at USB 2.0 speeds -- which implies an insider. Our Gotnews.com investigation...
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Computing Breakthroughs in AI
Technology Review outlines technology breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. 2014 has been a very big year. We are starting to see real applications in practice...
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Donald Knuth on the History of Computing
In CACM: Stanford Prof Donald Knuth is a hero to many of us who grew up during the real emergence of computing, to the point that most every person uses it personally...
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Supermarkets, Customers and Big Data
In Information Week: Looking at how well companies understand their customers." ... It's no coincidence that supermarkets and banks, which have not just the technology...
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Stream Computing
Systems, devices, and people now generate vast streams of data. How do we understand that data in real time?" ... Remember the blackout during Super Bowl XLVII...
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Hyundai's Exobaby
A virally spreading video a car Ad about a baby covered by a exoskin by Hyundai. This conceptual video demonstrates robotic assistance capabilities for humans....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson