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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
The NIPS Experiment
The NIPS (machine learning) conference ran an interesting experiment this year. They had two separate and disjoint program committees with the submissions split...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building a Simple Word Cloud
A simple word cloud service, data can be retrieved from pasted text, URLs or files. A number of useful features for quick generation. Their blog provides some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP IOT Garden
Work and thoughts by SAP on IoT Innovation, in a Garden:" ... Within SAP, IoT has begun taking shape in the form of grassroots projects and pilot implementations...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Too many Arrows in the Quiver?
Last week I saw a tweet complaining to Wonder Workshop about them using Blockly to program their robots when (apparently) the Kickstarter proposal said the would...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for CCC Council Nominations
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) issued a call today for nominations for individuals to serve on the CCC Council for the next three years. The deadline...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Optimizing polymorphic code in Java
Oracle’s Java is a fast language… sometimes just as fast as C++. In Java, we commonly use polymorphism through interfaces, inheritance or wrapper classes to make...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Marketing
In the HBR: Using the activity of the brain to understand purchasing and marketing decisions. We called this neuromarketing, but that term is never used in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Boosting Robotics
In CWorld: " ... Already a major manufacturer of electronics, China is preparing to bolster its presence in robotics with the help of government support and investments...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NIH Big Data to Knowledge Funding Opportunities
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program has announced two new funding opportunities for FY15 funding. NIH Big Data to Knowledge...
From Schneier on Security
How the FBI Unmasked Tor Users
Kevin Poulson has a good article up on Wired about how the FBI used a Metasploit variant to identity Tor users....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford High Rise Chip
In CWorld: New three dimensional design. Potential for IoT and Big Data applications." ... Stanford University researchers have built a multi-layered "high-rise"...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Prover’s Block
What to do when afraid to see if what you want is true Cropped from Canadian Bergler Society source Edmund Bergler coined the term in 1947, the great writers Francis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Fly a Horse
Colleague Kevin Ashton writes:Dear Franz, My new book, "How to Fly a Horse — The Secret History of Invention, Creation, and Discovery," comes out on January 20....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Content Metrics: All About the Data
In Adage: On how to measure digital content. Which relates to the more general aspect of Data Assets. Which I have repeated here and given a talk about. It's...
From Schneier on Security
Fake Cell Towers Found in Norway
In yet another example of what happens when you build an insecure communications infrastructure, fake cell phone towers have been found in Oslo. No one knows who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where do you Start With the Internet of Things?
Good piece on the topic. by James MacLennan. There is lots of talk everywhere of course, but what do you do to fit his into a business? We spent years thinking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Analytics and Privacy
An area we examined in laboratory conditions. One approach seen was the automated blurring of faces. In RetailWire: Discussion: " ... While privacy remains a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology
A friend sent me a link to an interesting looking page that the White House set up to tell stories of the history of women in Science and Technology. It is a collection...
From Putting People First
World Development Report 2015 explores “Mind, Society, and Behavior”
WASHINGTON, December 2, 2014 — Development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society...
From The Eponymous Pickle