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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Fellow Randal Bryant Joins White House Staff To Tackle Big Data
Randal Bryant, University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, has accepted a temporary assignment to the White House Office of Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Watson Changed IBM
In the HBR: Good piece about how IBM used a broad re-invention of a known idea to change itself. In much evidence now by the huge investment being made by IBM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Location Context is Still Everything
In K@W: Fairly obvious, back to the meaning of how different kinds of consumer contexts and behaviors influence internet use. We went into retail to examine it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle and Data Visualization
Quite impressive view of data visualization methods in use at Nestle. Similarities to Business Sphere work at P&G, but appears to be more broadly used. Implication...
From Schneier on Security
People Are Not Very Good at Matching Photographs to People
We have an error rate of about 15%: Professor Mike Burton, Sixth Century Chair in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen said: "Psychologists identified around...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 August 2014
Well I made it though going back to school. Teachers went back Tuesday, we saw our freshmen students briefly on Wednesday and had a full (very full) day of classes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overview of R: What is it?
I have had a number of people ask me the question: What is it? Who uses it? I have been surprised that some schools are not teaching it. It seems more of aGood...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking Computer Aided Design
Quite an interesting article, especially with regard to the integration with 3D printing." ... The future of computer-aided design (CAD) tools, in light of recent...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Scholarships
ACM-W Scholarships for Attendance at Research Conferences ACM-W provides support for women undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science and related programs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Guidelines for Great Data Visualizations
Good thoughts and examples. It is often too how the overall concept of the design works that makes the visualization good. Further, consider the devices on which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain Management
Brought to my attention: the Wright State University Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management. Just spoke at their MS program for the fourth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Largest Robot Swarm
From Wired: Another example of robotic swarms. The idea might be to use a large number of relatively simple robotics to perform a task, the task might be sensory...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Why Is 290 Special?
How exceptions in theorems may affect their complexity Cropped from India Today source Manjul Bhargava is a mathematician who just won one of the 2014 Fields Medals...
From My Biased Coin
Is the ACM "Retaliating" Against SOCG?
Friday afternoon Jeff Erickson posted at Making SOCG blog some "bad news". Some background: very recently, the Symposium on Computational Geometry, or SoCG, decided...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Virtual Reality
In Forbes: This sounds new, but we examined similar methods nearly a decade ago. Is it useful to immerse yourself virtually in your data? At the time it wasHere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk on the New Analytics
Giving a talk today at Wright State University on the topic of the 'New Analytics'. This is the fourth year I have given this invited talk. This year I am making...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revisiting the Industrial Internet
I was pointed to a site that shows some of GE's work in the Industrial Internet. See also a post of mine which links to a former colleague's work in this areaShoumen...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Boats Illuminate Bangkok from Space
Really: To attract the phytoplankton, fishermen suspend green lights from their boats to illuminate the sea. When the squid chase after their dinner, they're drawn...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
NCWIT - How to Create and Sustain a Women in Computing Group on Your Campus
A Women in Computing (WIC) group on campus can increase members' confidence and enjoyment of their studies, help reduce their feelings of isolation, dispel common...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing