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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
Collaboration Environment Requirements
In Cisco Blog: A topic often covered here. What really makes it work? Strongly leveraged Data, Analytics, context, focus and culture are my answers. Technology...
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Supply Chain Collaboration
Supply chain collaboration. Ultimately essential to scale to the solution for the right context. It is about visibility, but what does that term mean? Agree...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Crowdsourcing Publishing
Amazon's outsourced publishing platform called WriteOn. As launched, aimed at publishing fiction. But could the same thing be done with other kinds of publishing...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA's Private Cloud
The NSA is building a private cloud with its own security features: As a result, the agency can now track every instance of every individual accessing what is in...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Multilinear Circuits
In the past decade we have seen a strong program in algebraic circuit complexity. If you just define circuits using multiplication and addition gates, sometimes...
From Putting People First
Five tips for experience designers working on healthcare innovation
Earlier this year Tracy Brown, a London-based UX designer, had the opportunity to work within an innovation lab called The Digital Innovation group (DIG), created...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What caught my attention lately: 12% of Harvard is enrolled in CS 50: "In pretty much every area of study, computational methods and computational thinking are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital NYC Launched
To my startup friends in NYC, Digital NYC has launched. Congratulatons! Got a great impression of their work during my last visit. It is also well supported...
From Schneier on Security
Firechat
Firechat is a secure wireless peer-to-peer chat app: Firechat is theoretically resistant to the kind of centralized surveillance that the Chinese government (as...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF announces opportunities with the BRAIN Initiative
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has three new announcements today related to the BRAIN Initiative and NSF’s Understanding the Brain activities: NSF 14-611...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Busy Beaver Problem
Can the impossible become practical? Complex analysts gallery source Tibor Radó was a mathematician who was the PhD advisor to a number of computer scientists....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things in China
First I had seen of reports on the IOT in China. In GigaOM:" ... In conversations with companies doing business in China on the IoT front, the picture that emerged...
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Skin Patch Monitors Health
From IdeaConnection:A discrete new 'skin-like' health monitor could be used to monitor a range of conditions from dry skin to cardiovascular disease.Created by...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Complexity Explorer
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Melanie Mitchell, Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University, and External Professor and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Dominates Big Data
Interesting to see this historical view of a very recent development. The story of Hadoop. Also adds to the increasing interest and investment in open source....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teams and Risks
Recent interactions with the compliance community have tuned me into how risks need to be managed. In the HBR:" ... Many companies pay lip service to the value...
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3D Food Printer Approaches Ship Date
In GigaOM: A look at the concept of a 3D food printer. A whimsical idea we toyed with. Having a hard time understanding it useful application" ... Structur3D...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do It Without Code
One of the projects I like to assign involves counting the letters in a set of text. In other words, how many times does each unique letter appear in a string....
From Schneier on Security
Security Theater in China
The Chinese government checked ten thousand pigeons for "dangerous materials." Because fear....
From The Eponymous Pickle