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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
Social Hives for the Supply Chain
Concept term I had not heard of: " .... The age-old problem of disconnection in the supply chain can be eased through the use of social media, argues Tony Martins...
From Schneier on Security
Security Flaws in Rapiscan Full-Body Scanners
Security researchers have finally gotten their hands on a Rapiscan backscatter full-body scanner. The results aren't very good. Website with paper and images. News...
From Putting People First
Service design toolkit
The toolkit for service design is an introduction to the methodology of service design. With a simple step-by-step plan it offers you a practical do-it-yourself...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartstones on the Daily Show Tonight
Heard this somewhat late, but a startup I am connected with will be featured on the Daily Show tonight:Full information." ... Someone in our Smartstones "earlyDavid...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Who Invented Pointers, Amortized Complexity, And More?
Some algorithmic tricks were first invented in complexity theory Andrey Kolmogorov, Fred Hennie, Richard Stearns, and Walter Savitch are all famous separately;...
From My Biased Coin
New Article on arxiv on Equitability and MIC
We recently put on arxiv a new draft on "Theoretical Foundations of Equitability and the Maximal Information Coefficient". This is some follow-on work to a paper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data as a Natural Resource
In the recent ACM Bulletin:Matthias Kaiserswerth is Director of IBM Research - Zurich. ....How would you expand on your statement in a recent blog post that data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netflix Big Data: The Golden Data
Piece on how Netflix uses big data analysis. To derive Golden Data. I like the term, but can it be effectively derived?" ... “It’s not as far away from the world...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Rotate the Cell Phones
One of the things I am working hard at this year is making things more clear to students. I want them to understand concepts and why they are important and useful...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Working towards a Healthy Pipeline: Encouraging CS Undergraduates from U.S. Institutions to Consider Graduate School and Careers in Research
The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Council Member Ran Libeskind-Hadas and CRA Board Member Susanne Hambrusch, Co-Chairs of CRA-E. The CRA...
From Schneier on Security
Security by Obscurity at Healthcare.gov Site
The White House is refusing to release details about the security of healthcare.gov because it might help hackers. What this really means is that the security details...
From Schneier on Security
Eavesdropping Using Smart Phone Gyroscopes
The gyroscopes are sensitive enough to pick up acoustic vibrations. It's crude, but it works. Paper. Wired article. Hacker News thread....
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA and Swarms
More by NASA on the use of swarms. Nice to see work of this type still coming out of the space agency. See the mention of the use of simulation methods to test...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Data Visualization and Analytics for Business Process
Not very much detail, mention of Unilever connection to business process," ... In 2010, the company set itself the target of doubling its revenues in a decade or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TIVO Again
I was a very early user of the Tivo DVR system, used it until we were hit by lightning. I see they are now trying to pick up some of the legally nixed Aereo traffic...
From Computational Complexity
A Deadly Side of Complexity
Better algorithms can lead to better medicine and save lives. Just today Tim Gowers discusses Emmanuel Candès' ICM Plenary Lecture, which among other things describes...
From Schneier on Security
The Problems with PGP
Matthew Green has a good post on what's wrong with PGP and what should be done about it....
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The world’s oldest computer and the Antikythera challenge
When we think about the first computers to produce useful information for mankind, our mind usually goes to the 1940s: the conceptual Turing machine, the ENIAC,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robo Brain is now Open on the Web
Clever idea, that I think has been tried before. Now from Cornell and elsewhere and supported by a number of big technology companies. Why not learn from theHey...
From The Eponymous Pickle