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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
Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squids Attack Submarine
A pair of Humboldt squids attacked a Greenpeace submarine. There's video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO and NIST To Host Multistakeholder Meeting on Cybersecurity and Patents in Silicon Valley on November 14
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will host the first multistakeholder...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Monitoring Vital Signs for the Elderly
The National Science Foundation recently featured University of Missouri computer scientist Marjorie Skubic in a Science360 radio episode. Skubic is engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Watson Works
A straightforward, non-technical video of how Watson/Cognitive is designed to work, implemented in the real world. Worth a look if you are at all interested...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Junior Faculty Job Search
Harvard Computer Science is doing a junior faculty search this year. We pretty much have been doing one every year, but it's nice to be able to make an announcement...
From Schneier on Security
The Ineffectiveness of Sealing the Border Against Ebola (and Other Viruses)
Good analysis....
From Apophenia
My name is danah and I’m a stats addict.
I love data and I hate stats. Not stats in abstract — statistics are great — but the kind of stats that seem to accompany any web activity. Number of followers,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Realities of Local Retail
In ThinkwithGoogle:" ... The relationship between digital and local stores is changing—something we learned from our new Digital Impact on In-Store Shopping study...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G to Spin off Duracell
Not unexpected. But the form of the move is unusual. Not a profitable enough business. " .... Though P&G said that the Duracell has 'attractive operating profit...
From Geeking with Greg
Why can't I buy a solar panel somewhere else in the US and get a credit for the electricity from it?
Seattle City Light has a clever project where, instead of installing solar panels on your house where they might be obscured by trees or buildings, you can buytwice...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Role of the Chief Data Officer
Excellent piece here. Have worked in the area of regulatory compliance. Here the idea is to consider the more formal roles involved to address this problem systematically...
From Schneier on Security
Analysis of Printer Watermarking Techniques
Interesting paper: Maya Embar, Louis M. McHough IV, and William R. Wesselman, "Printer watermark obfuscation," Proceeding RIIT '14: Proceedings of the 3rd annual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Former Apple Retail Store Manager Will help You Choose.
The Apple store is impressive. An impressive showy blend of service, expertise and demonstration. With lots of geeky camaraderie.The Genius Behind The AppleFormer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and AI with DeepMind
More examples of Cognitive, here with Google." ... Google, the search company that's investing heavily in robotics, is teaming with Oxford University researchers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data in the Classroom
Data sets are growing rapidly. Yahoo, Google, and Amazon, work with data sets that consist of billions of items. The size and scale of data, which can be overwhelming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Available Watson Cognitive Services
Jim Spohrer points to a more complete list of Watson Bluemix services. I am in the midst of exploring. Here is one example to give you an idea of the granularity...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder Call for Proposals: Creating Visions for Computing Research
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) issued a new call for proposals for workshops that will catalyze and enable innovative research at the frontiers of computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asimov on How People Get New Ideas
In Technology Review: Long ago, unpublished essay by beloved science and science fiction author Issac Asimov. His writings inspired me starting in Jr High. ...
From Computational Complexity
Guest Post by Dr. Hajiaghayi: A new way to rank departments
(This is a guest post by MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi. His name is not a typo- the first name really is MohammadTaghi.) Due to our belief in the lack of transparency...
From The Eponymous Pickle