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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
Statistician's View of Big Data
Colleague Diego Kuonen just gave an update of his excellent talk: A Statistician's View on Big Data and Data Science. Good place to start." ... There is no question...
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Digital Strategy
McKinsey on digital Strategy. Podcast and text. " ... Incumbent companies face critical decisions when it comes to addressing digitization. In this video interview...
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Contract Guardian: Signed & Verified Contract Compliance
Have been involved for some time in using technology for compliance systems. I have mentioned the local company Contract Guardian here for some time. They develop...
From My Biased Coin
Shout-out to Sabeti Lab
A shout-out today to my friend and colleague Pardis Sabeti (and her lab) for their Science article on the Ebola virus that appeared earlier today. Pardis and her...
From Computational Complexity
Sixteen Years in the Making
Every paper has a story but Sunny Daniel's Arxiv paper from yesterday deserves a blog post. We begin in 1982 when Ravi Kannan proved that Σ2 (the problems computable...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Air Force Fiscal Year 2015 Young Investigator Research Program
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)’s Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) supports scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Academics use Social Media
A lengthy Nature report with many statistics. Some surprising. I would further like to see why people outside, or just slightly outside a particular academic...
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Resilience and Data in the Supply Chain
In EBN: The need for what they call data maturity. Well, yes, absolutely, all the data and metadata needs to be 'mature'. But defining that can be a problem....
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Complex Regulatory Environments
Have been examining Splunk (SPL) as it has been applied to a number of dynamic data problems. Impressed by it capabilities. Both for its search engine-like examination...
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Watson Discovery Advisor
Continued interest in how IBM Watson will be applied to real business problems. There will be a demonstration today in NYC that we are following. Quite an interesting...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Traffic Lights
New paper: "Green Lights Forever: Analyzing the Security of Traffic Infrastructure," Branden Ghena, William Beyer, Allen Hillaker, Jonathan Pevarnek, and J. Alex...
From Putting People First
How EU leaders can listen to the views of their citizens expressed on Twitter
Vox Digitas By Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller, David Weir, Jeremy Reffin, Simon Wibberley Report, 24 August 2014 ISBN 978-1-909037-63-2 Free download Over the last...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Though unrefereed, arXiv has a better h-index than most journals…
Google provides a ranking of research venue per domain. For databases and information systems, they provide the top 20 venues according to their h-index. As part...
From My Biased Coin
Update on SOCG and ACM
I am happy to have an update on the SOCG/STOC colocation issue that arose last week. Or, better said, Jeff Erickson has an update, the short summary of which is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ad Targeting Based on Signal Strength
In Adage: Had not heard of this. A device-based hidden context detection in mobile. " .... Facebook Targets Ads Based on Cell Signal Strength ... Social Network...
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Kraft Product Breakthrough Innovation
In K@W: Insightful thoughts about how innovation is important and essential in CPG. What drives it when you have lots of well known current brands? How should...
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Transparent Solar Power
In IEEE Spectrum: Transparent tiles that can capture solar power? Work underway at Michigan State.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Yet More Block Programming Languages
I saw this announcement on Facebook first but I probably just missed seeing it on the email list. At this stage I have to wonder why? Why more of the same? Do we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in BioChips: Organoids
In Wired: Overview of advances in biochips, chips that mimic the activity of the body, used for the development and testing of drugs. I note the term new to"...
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