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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
Disappearance of Software Patents
In the US at least. Software patents are rapidly disappearing as it is understood that software is not patentable. Interesting view and comments too. I sent this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SRI Cognitive Agents
Cognitive Agents that Learn and Organize" ... SRI has dubbed its new project CALO, for Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes. The name was inspired by the Latin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitizing the Customer Decision Journey
From McKinsey: A Thoughtful piece. " ... In a world where physical and virtual environments are rapidly converging, companies need to meet customer needs anytime...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 200-Pound Squid Found in Gulf of Mexico
A 200-pound dead giant squid was found near the coast of Matagorda, Texas. This is only the third giant squid ever found in the Gulf of Mexico. As usual, you can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kellogg Consumer Centric Data Case Study
An Ad from Aimia." ... Transforming CPG Loyalty With Consumer Centric Data It is an exciting time for the CPG industry. Building loyalty with consumers is no...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and C Level Value
In CIO. Lots of stories to tell here. Not too much different than it has always been when translating any kinds of analytics to executives. But now the promise...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NYC ASCENT Postdoc Best Practices Program Launched
Below is a Press Release from the Columbia University School of Engineering, published September 11, 2014 about the NYC ASCENT Kick Off. Many of New York City’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A View of the Future of Analytics
Short post from IBM's AnalyticsZone Blog on The current state of analytics and visualization. There you can sign up for the Watson Analytics beta. But it just...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST Global City Challenge Kick-Off
As a follow-on to the Smart America Challenge, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in partnership with US Ignite, is launching the Global...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Improves its Visualization, Analytics
Good to finally see this. It seems they had fallen behind for some time. " ... SAP has made a series of updates to its InfiniteInsight predictive modeling software...
From Schneier on Security
The Concerted Effort to Remove Data Collection Restrictions
Since the beginning, data privacy regulation focused on collection, storage, and use. You can see it in the OECD Privacy Framework from 1980 (see also this proposed...![[Video] Digital Amnesia (VPRO, 2014)](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Video] Digital Amnesia (VPRO, 2014)
Our memory is dissipating. Hard drives only last five years, a webpage is forever changing and there’s no machine left that can read 15-year old floppy disks. Digital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
InfraRed FUSION
I see that colleagues Elena and Ed Fullman are featured in the local paper. Best of luck to them." ... Each week Cintrifuse and Cincinnati.com turn the spotlight...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Debugging the Gender Gap Documentary
An upcoming documentary by CODE explores the dearth of female and minority software engineers and explores the reasons for this gender gap. A “teaser” of the film...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Inspire kids to create our future: Apply for a 2015 RISE Award
Technology has the power to change the world for the better, but today far too few have access to the education or encouragement they need to become creators, not...
From Computational Complexity
Beyond the Commodity
Back in 2005 I lamented the fact that students viewed computers as a commodity, a tool they use, like an automobile, but have no reason to understand how or why...
From My Biased Coin
Biggering
Preliminary course enrollment numbers are in. Our new theory course, CS 125 (rapid introduction to theory), has 32 undergrads and 5 others, for an enrollment of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MCX Mobile Wallet
In GigaOM: More mobile wallets emerging. Are we finally seeing the major move? Ten years plus since we saw the first presentations from vendors. " ... MCX launches...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding Ageing with Calico
Calico Labs:" ... We’re tackling aging, one of life’s greatest mysteries. ... Calico is a research and development company whose mission is to harness advancedThomas...
From The Eponymous Pickle