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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
Best Practices for ECommerce Conversion
Interesting piece that covers many of the issues and best practices in ECommerce conversion, with associated statistics.
From Schneier on Security
The Full Story of Yahoo's Fight Against PRISM
In 2008 Yahoo fought the NSA to avoid becoming part of the PRISM program. They eventually lost their court battle, and at one point were threatened with a $250,000...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teach APCS–A New Shared Resource Site
A few days ago I was contacted by Christina Cacioppo whose day job is an engineer at a startup but who is also helping to teach Advanced Placement Computer Science...
From Putting People First
Why banks need to revamp their user experience
The most interesting things happening in financial services are not happening in financial services, writes Rich Berkman, Associate Partner of IBM Interactive Experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lego as a Tool for Serious Thinking
Remember looking at this long ago. Not sure how commonly it is used. Small and useful tools for thinking." ... LEGO Serious Play is a way of using LEGO bricks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Massive Datasets
Coursera course from Stanford on Mining Massive Data Sets. " ... This class teaches algorithms for extracting models and other information from very large amounts...
From Schneier on Security
Identifying Dread Pirate Roberts
According to court documents, Dread Pirate Roberts was identified because a CAPTCHA service used on the Silk Road login page leaked the users' true location....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Scientist Among the Winners of the 2014 MacArthur “Genius Grant”
The MacArthur Foundation has named its 2014 class of MacArthur Fellows “Genius Grant”, recognizing 21 exceptionally creative individuals with a track record of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lying and Ethics
Since I was speaking at a compliance and ethics conference yesterday I have been keenly attuned to the meaning of the terms used by professionals in that area. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG and E-Commerce
In AdAge: " ... Packaged-Goods Marketers Wade Warily Into E-commerce ... Big Brands Stymied by Executional Strategies in a World Where Online Retailers ControlAlso...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple and Local Search
The emergence of the Apple Watch will likely start to popularize the use of watch displays by the public. How will it influence location plays? In Search Engine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Identity and Access Intelligence
Gave an invited talk at the SCCE Corporate Compliance conference yesterday in Chicago about compliance analytics. Met a number of new people and saw examples of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The week-end freedom test
In an earlier post, I compared life in academia with life in industry. One recurring argument to favour an academic job over an industry job is freedom. Of course...
From Schneier on Security
Tracking People From their Cellphones with an SS7 Vulnerability
What's interesting about this story is not that the cell phone system can track your location worldwide. That makes sense; the system has to know where you are....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing 2015
The nomination period for the 2015 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing is now open. If you know a high school woman who is interested in computing nominate...
From Computational Complexity
Maryland Theory Day October 10!
Univ of Maryland at College Park is having a Theory Day Friday October 10. Free Registration and Free Lunch! (there are no economists coming to tell us therehere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analytics Announced Today
( More here later )http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2014/09/16/ibm-offers-a-data-tool-for-the-mainstream-with-watsons-help/" ... Developing technology is one...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning for Data Value
In Informs Analytics MagazineMachine Learning for Big Data Value.Yes, big data helps unveil millions of facts about consumer behavior and trends. Leveraging emerging...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why I Retweet Things From Heavily Followed People
I used to think that retweeting something that someone who had a lot of followers tweeted was a waste of time. After all they reach many more people than I do....
From The Eponymous Pickle