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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Instructions and Removing Ambiguity
Recently I found the following image on Facebook. I plan to use it with my students this semester as a starting off point for conversation. This is a perfect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protein Imaging Data
In Nature: Heard much about this topic in R&D when we were still in health care product development. " ... Data bank struggles as protein imaging ups its game...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What's in Stock Nearby
In Adage: Macy's Links With Google To Show Mobile Users What's In Stock Nearby ... Find That Gift You've Been Looking for in the Right Size, Color and Price ....
From Schneier on Security
The NSA's Role in Commercial Cybersecurity
Susan Landau has a new paper on the NSA's increasing role in commercial cybersecurity. She argues that the NSA is the wrong organization to do this, and we need...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Good Thoughts on E-Mail Responses
Not about managing your email, but the often more important issue of how you should respond to serious questions in email. The most useful element: Pause. ...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A New Twist on Flexagons?
For Martin Gardner’s 100th birthday Martin Gardner introduced many including myself to the joys of Discrete Mathematics. His glorious monthly column “Mathematical...
From Schneier on Security
Jumping Air Gaps with All-in-One Printers
Last week, Adi Shamir gave a presentation at Black Hat Europe on using all-in-one printers to control computers on the other side of air gaps. There's no paper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing Ebola Data with Watson API
Technical.A report via the Cognitive Systems Institute.Note this is Under Development. Should not be used conclusively. It is an example of usingWatson services...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Ebola-Fighting Robots
Could robots really aid in the Ebola fight? On November 7th, robotics researchers from around the country will come together to try to answer that question. They...
From My Biased Coin
Cuckoo Filters
An upcoming paper appearing at CoNext will be of interest to any Bloom Filter user or aficionado:Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better than Bloom(Bin Fan, David Andersen...
From Computational Complexity
MSR SVC Letters
The Committee for the Advancement of Theoretical Computer Science put together an open letter to several research leaders at Microsoft. We feel that there should...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Research Infrastructure (CRI) Program
The following is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) by the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Acting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Debating Emotional Intelligence
How important is the concept? An interesting debate, that reminds me of the concept and what it has come to mean. The author concludes: " .... I can’t emphasize...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC Time Line of Computing
A slideshow style timeline of the emergence and use of computing, broadly defined. I dislike this style of presenting information, though I understand it is meant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Successful Innovation
Related to topics like Should we build a physical or virtual place to emphasize innovation. Or should the process be more or less deliberate? I agree that culture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Robot for the Home: Jibo
The idea of a social, family robot is an interesting idea. None I have I have ever seen has worked very well, or has been very comforting. Shades of Kismet from...
From Schneier on Security
Deanonymizing Taxi Passenger and Fare Data
Interesting essay on the sorts of things you can learn from anonymized taxi passenger and fare data....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disruptor Foundation
A note from colleague Julie Anixter reminded me of the Disruptor Foundation, where she is executive in residence. " .... Co-founded by Professor Clayton Christensen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online TV Tracked Across Devices
Expected next step." ... Showing all viewers the same commercial six minutes into, say, an episode of "Modern Family" might soon be over. If you're watching itA...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM