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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Academia or industry?
I have done three things after my Ph.D.: I have been a (permanent/regular) researcher in a major government laboratory; I have been an entrepreneur in industry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mathematica Launches in the Cloud
Now you can run Mathematica in the cloud. " ... In the past, using Mathematica has always involved first installing software on your computer. But as of today...
From Computational Complexity
Richard Lipton Wins Knuth Prize
Georgia Tech professor and fellow blogger Richard Lipton will receive the 2014 Knuth Prize at the upcoming FOCS conference in Philadelphia. The Knuth Prize is given...
From Schneier on Security
Two New Snowden Stories
New Zealand is spying on its citizens. Edward Snowden weighs in personally. The NSA and GCHQ are mapping the entire Internet, including hacking into Deutsche Telekom...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Research on History of Cognitive Assistants in Business
A number of past blog posts here, over a number of years, have been mentioned in Jim Spohrer's Paper: "More Research on the History of Cognitive Assistants in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Communities Work Better than Networks
We observed this too, just watching your network grow does not buy you anything. You also need a community with purpose, alerts and measures. Says the HBR. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Cities as Big Opportunity
In the Cisco Blog. A pretty common thought. Consider a city as an internet of many things. What can be done to improve, enhance and monetize the resulting mega...
From Apophenia
Am I a Blogger?
On July 25th, I was asked to address thousands of women (and some men) at the 10th annual Blogher conference. I was asked to reflect on what it meant to be a blogger...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT CSAIL
Had a reminder of MIT work with AI. They influenced us, especially in manufacturing and sensor based applications of data AI. And more about their history and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computational Thinking and Beyond
Since Jeannette Wing described computational thinking (CT) in her 2006 Communications of the ACM article, it has gone beyond computer science and now become a “hot...
From Schneier on Security
Security of the SHA Family of Hash Functions
Good article on the insecurity of SHA-1 and the need to replace it sooner rather than later....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 September 2014
Overshadowed, at least in the US, by the anniversary of the attack by terrorists on New York and the Pentagon, last week also included Programmers Day. Apparently...
From My Biased Coin
Simultaneous Enrollment
The Crimson has an op-ed on simultaneous enrollment, that I agree with.Harvard does not like simultaneous enrollment, which means a student taking two classes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mayo Clinic Trials and Watson
In CIO: The use of Watson for clinical trials. Note the use of natural language interaction. Key for what IBM is seeing as cognitive advisory applications....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Three Vs vs Decision Process in Analytics
Three big Data Vs. I agree with the premise, the decision process is more important than labels. " .... Tony Cosentino, vice president and research director ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smell Maps in the City
Interesting work in FastCompany. With a geographic visualization. We looked at a similar idea in retail, to influence shopping behavior. But we did not get...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Organized
Most years I have had a rough plan of what I wanted to teach. I use the term “plan” loosely there. My granularity tended to be a week rather than a day. I knew...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Some Strange Math Facts
Things we did not know Ulam holding a strange device Stanislaw Ulam was a Polish-American mathematician whose work spanned many areas of both continuous and discrete...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cool DARPA Projects
Good overview, interesting ideas. Often, as it says, addressing important real-world, civilian issues." ... The experimental projects of the Defense AdvancedThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle