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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 Schneier on Security
Sophisticated Targeted Attack Via Hotel Networks
Kaspersky Labs is reporting (detailed report here, technical details here) on a sophisticated hacker group that is targeting specific individuals around the world...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo and Shopping
In Retailwire: A look at how the Echo assistant and speaker and its implications for a new mode of shopping. Think of the potential cognitive interactions with...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Internet Voting from Wireless Routers
Good paper, and layman's explanation. Internet voting scares me. It gives hackers the potential to seriously disrupt our democratic processes....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robotics for Ebola Response
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Gregory Hager (Johns Hopkins University). Imagine you have...
From Apophenia
me + National Museum of the American Indian
I’m pleased to share that I’m joining the Board of Trustees of Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in 2015. I am honored and humbled by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan's Robot Week
A report from Japan's 2014 Robot Week in October. Which makes the case that software is becoming more important. It has always been important, in particular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bringing Clarity to Cognitive Computing
An overview of the topic of cognitive computing, from the recent Dataversity webinar. Via Steve Ardire." ... DATAVERSITY’s™ Cognitive Computing Forum is taking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moving Data Fast in Disaster
Several recent communications have led us to thinking about how data can be moved quickly and reliably in complex times. Which led to this piece:" ... Prototype...
From Schneier on Security
The Future of Incident Response
Security is a combination of protection, detection, and response. It's taken the industry a long time to get to this point, though. The 1990s was the era of protection...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links–10 November 2014
Parent teacher conferences last week made for a couple of long nights. I confess though that I enjoy meeting parents and talking about their children. Some interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consciousness in Computing
The problems of computing consciousness. An interesting question, but more often wonder what value consciousness will have. Perhaps as a precursor to certain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Matrix Organization
A 1970s McKinsey's article on beyond the Matrix Organization. Where has the emergence of technology changed this? Not changed this? " .... Tom Peters examines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Davidow's Complete Product
Brought to my attention, a book review by Rob Thomas, on the Complete Product. " ... William Davidow wrote Marketing High Technology in 1986. While we have seen...
From Apophenia
What is Fairness?
What is “fairness”? And what happens when technology decides? Fairness is one of those values that Americans love to espouse. It’s just as beloved in technical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taking Autocompletion Further
A simplistic metaphor for intelligence is autocompletion. We are very used to it today. We have knowledge, now how do we use that knowledge to predict what should...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why the IBM and Twitter Data Deal
It has been presented as a means to understand the pulse of the planet. A sensory coup previously impossible. Connecting the firehose of information createdGood...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Conjecture Of Ulam
A pointed question about the plane Stanisław Ulam was one of the great mathematicians of the last century. We talked about him in a recent post on his prime spiral...
From Putting People First
Society’s sandbox
Steve Daniels, director at Makeshift magazine, explains why informal economies are the world’s biggest — and most overlooked — design research opportunity. “Informal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Neural Turing Machine
This still does not mean we can replace our conventional machines with such neural networks, but it can have profound implication for analytics.Google's Secretive...
From The Eponymous Pickle