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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
Big Basketball Data
In Wired: Excellent non technical look at tracking the complexity of sports. Have followed this technically for a few years, this is a good non-tech view. Nice...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Determining Personality and Resonance of Message
Today at the Insight meetings we saw a Watson cognitive App being built from a number of Bluemix services and prefabricated Java. Of particular interest was aGenesys...
From Schneier on Security
Survey on What Americans Fear
Interesting data: Turning to the crime section of the Chapman Survey on American Fears, the team discovered findings that not only surprised them, but also those...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cyber-Earth project puts climate-change impacts on the map
The following is a guest blog post by CCC Council Member Shashi Shekhar, McKnight Distinguished University Professor Department of Computer Science College of Science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Leave School Now While You Still Know It All
Interesting questions appear on Twitter all the time. Sometimes addressed to individuals and sometimes addressed to the Twitterverse as a whole. One earlier today...
From Computational Complexity
Sipser Symposium
On Sunday we had the Symposium on Theoretical Computer Science on the Occasion of Michael Sipser's 60th birthday to celebrate what Mike has brought to research...
From My Biased Coin
Rankings Everywhere
Like many (theoretical) computer scientists, I spent far, far too much time this weekend thinking about rankings. Well, really, it was more that I was being far...
From Putting People First
The zombiefication of business travelers
Tim Askew, CEO of Corporate Rain International, explains how technology is increasingly isolating us from each other and stifling creativity and real experiences...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Two States–the Highs and the Lows
I found this image on Facebook last week and it really rang true for me. I experienced both sides of this recently. On one hand I wrote a program on the spur...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Copies Your Files Without Your Knowledge or Consent
The latest version of Apple's OS automatically syncs your files to iCloud Drive, even files you choose to store locally. Apple encrypts your data, both in transit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scene Understanding and Labeling Pixels
A problem I looked at for a startup a few years ago. Ultimately it was chosen to address it by using crowdsourcing. Here a Vimeo interview with Stephen Gould"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analytics Seen Today
Watson Analytics Have yet to get a beta loaner, but today I did get several more in depth demonstrations of the idea. In one case I was able to at least suggest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whole Foods Digital Signage
Whole Foods Store of the future utilizes digital signage. They have been innovators in this space for some time. " .... Whole Foods has unveiled a new range...
From The Eponymous Pickle
USPS to Test Delivery of Groceries
The idea has been suggested for years, now finally the Feds have approved a test. Why not? " ... Federal authorities have given approval for the U.S. Postal...
From Schneier on Security
US Intelligence "Second Leaker" Identified
There's a report that the FBI has identified a second leaker: The case in question involves an Aug. 5 story published by The Intercept, an investigative website...
From Putting People First
Five things marketers can learn from designers
Why are highly successfully companies putting top-notch designers in key leadership roles, ask David Weber and Lisa Leslie Henderson. What are designers bringing...
From Putting People First
Best practices for medical app development go beyond standard UX
Mobile healthcare app development poses a set of challenges very different from mainstream apps. Not only is security an area that requires a considerable attention...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Rebooting Computing
How to beat the end of Moore’s Law Elie Track and Tom Conte were co-chairs of the recently-held Third IEEE workshop on Rebooting Computing. Tom is a computer architect...
From Schneier on Security
Authentication Attack Against Credit Card Verification
Here's a physical attack against a credit card verification system. Basically, the attack disrupts the communications between the retail terminal and the system...
From My Biased Coin