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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
Grocery Delivery Options
Have recently been asked to look at grocery delivery capabilities. We saw these as common components of the future home, but they have not developed as quickly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What CIO's Need to know about Prediction
Good thoughts about the topic. Not much difference between classic forecasting, analytics, or the use of Big Data. Caution and careful testing in comparison to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Multiple Services to Advice
via Jim Spohrer" ... Probably the most interesting related business idea is Adam Cheyer's (co-creator of SIRI) (http://viv.ai) which is trying to what you are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Gamification Blog
In IEEE Computing Now, a new effort of very broad application. Look forward to following this.Gamification: Inspired by Games Blogby Joann Hoffman and Wanda Meloni...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storyboard Approach to Big Data Insights
Plan to take a further look at the idea. " ... Big data by itself is just a worthless collection of numbers and characters. To make big data work, you need to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone Code Project
aIn CWorldThe Dronecode Project will unite thousands of coders to build an aerial operating system for drones ... Drones have just found their new best friends:...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Recreational Squid Fishing in Washington State
There is year-round recreational squid fishing from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to south Puget Sound. A nighttime sport that requires simple, inexpensive fishing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF/Intel Partnership on Visual and Experiential Computing (VEC) Program Webinar
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer Science and Engineering (CISE) in partnership with Intel announced a joint funding opportunity called...
From Schneier on Security
Incident Response Webinar on Thursday
On 12/18 I'll be part of a Co3 webinar where we examine incident-response trends of 2014 and look ahead to 2015. I tend not to do these, but this is an exception...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Algorithms in the Field Webinar
Recently, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) posted an article about Algorithms in the Field (AitF) a new program in the Directorate for Computer Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Lets Devices Commune
In NetworkWorld:" ... A new Google project aims to create nothing less than an open standard for the entire “Internet of Things,” which the company’s Chrome team...
From Schneier on Security
Who Might Control Your Telephone Metadata
Remember last winter when President Obama called for an end to the NSA's telephone metadata collection program? He didn't actually call for an end to it; he just...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Dot and Dash–My New Robots
I got some robots the other night. Dot and Dash come from Wonder Workshop which is a Kickstarter project I backed. That is Dot on the right and Dash on the left...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
International 3D Game Creation Activity for CSEdWeek
I saw this on the CSTA mailing list this morning. Looks like fun. A collaboration between the University of Colorado, USA, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Advising Veterans
Finally got a bit closer look at this effort. A good example of an advisory system. Announced this past July. " ... IBM and USAA announced Wednesday that IBM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Infrastructure for Data Driven Science
A very good direction, working with infrastructure is often more complex than it should be.Laying the groundwork for data-driven scienceNSF announces $31 million...
From Schneier on Security
Comments on the Sony Hack
I don't have a lot to say about the Sony hack, which seems to still be ongoing. I want to highlight a few points, though. At this point, the attacks seem to be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biologically Inspired Design
Attended a talk today in the Cog Sci Institute on the status of work being done at Ga Tech on Biologically Inspired design, or Biomimicry. Given by Prof.Ashokhttps...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC BRAIN Workshop: Research Interfaces between Brain Science and Computer Science
Early pioneers of computing such as Alan Turing, John Von Neuman and Herb Simon were fascinated by the possibility of computing opening a window into our understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle