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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
Capturing Sentiment from Financial News
From the ACM: Talk on determining sentiment and prediction from text analysis in financial news. This requires filling out a registration. " ... Can the choice...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Retail Hacking Works: Danger at Point of Sale
A very instructive piece in the Cisco Blog about how retail hacking at point of sale works, and how it can be addressed. Must reading. " ... With the announcement...
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Interview with Jim Goodnight
An interview in Forbes with SAS data guru and founder Jim Goodnight. Met him a number of times during their work with our enterprise, always interesting. Some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Transforming Retail
How digital is transforming retail: The view from eBayDoes mobile commerce spell the end of traditional stores? In this series of short videos, Devin Wenig, the...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Book by One Squid-Obsessed Person About Another
Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer, by Matthew Gavin Frank. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Second Privacy Engineering Workshop on September 15-16 in San Jose
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), in coordination with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), will host the Second...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Auctioneers Join Forces
More in the auction management space. Which has many interesting ontological implications. " ... Six leading regional auction houses have joined forces to launch...
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McKinsey on the Next 50 Years
A new collection of articles from McKinsey. Just starting to take a look at this. For example: " ... Management intuition for the next 50 years ... The collision...
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Making up Identities
In Wired: Thoughts on what leads people to change their identity, and the implications. " ... Sockpuppetry—using false identities for deception—is centuries old...
From Putting People First
Defining user experience strategy
UX strategy isn’t the blueprint, canvas, or definition you use. UX strategy is about the conversations you have and the alignment you achieve, writes Austin Govella...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human Computer Interaction: Present and Future
In Computer Now: Very good, extensive view of the topic. Increasingly important was we use systems in new ways. Current and future trends." ... Human-computer...
From Schneier on Security
Security of Password Managers
At USENIX Security this year there were two papers studying the security of password managers: David Silver, Suman Jana, and Dan Boneh, "Password Managers: Attacks...
From CERIAS Blog
What is wrong with all of you? Reflections on nude pictures, victim shaming, and cyber security
[This blog post was co-authored by Professor Samuel Liles and Spaf.] Over the last few days we have seen a considerable flow of news and social media coverage of...
From CERIAS Blog
What is wrong with all of you? Reflections on nude pictures, victim shaming, and cyber security
[This blog post was co-authored by Professor Samuel Liles and Spaf.] Over the last few days we have seen a considerable flow of news and social media coverage of...
From CERIAS Blog
What is wrong with all of you? Reflections on nude pictures, victim shaming, and cyber security
[This blog post was co-authored by Professor Samuel Liles and Spaf.] Over the last few days we have seen a considerable flow of news and social media coverage of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Dictionary for Text Mining
An interesting article on the topic. You need some sort of domain area ontology to understand what you are mining. We built similar dictionaries for parts of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts On The Start of School
Today is the eight day of classes for me. By and large the school year is off to a good start. The students are great. I told my students this morning that I was...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Accelerating the Big Data Innovation Ecosystem
In March 2012, the Obama Administration announced the “Big Data Research and Development Initiative.” The goal is to help solve some of the Nation’s most pressing...
From The Eponymous Pickle