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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 Computational Complexity
Turing's Oracle
My daughter had a summer project to read and summarize some popular science articles. Having heard me talk about Alan Turing more than a few times, she picked a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensor Operated Augmented Fingers
In CACM: More in the sensor and robotic space space. The advances continue. Human augmentation. " ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have...
From Schneier on Security
Disguising Exfiltrated Data
There's an interesting article on a data exfiltration technique. What was unique about the attackers was how they disguised traffic between the malware and command...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simon: The First Smartphone
A look in Time Mag at the first phone that could be called 'Smart': Simon, offered in 1994, at about $900. Link includes usage videos. Only about 50K unitstechnical...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hacking Away at Little Problems
We have a fairly nice system for student information and the like. It is not perfect but then what system is? For example, our student management system will output...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decide What you Need from Big Data
Podcast from Knowledge@Wharton. Data has value, and the analytics that uses the data to improve process has value. Now everyone can have the data and analytics...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Recent ISAT/DARPA Workshop: Rethinking CAD: New Design Paradigms in the Age of 3-D Printing
The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Executive Council Member Mark Hill and workshop organizer Wade Shen of MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Recently...
From Putting People First
Facebook uses ethnography to deliver more relevant ads
“As researchers focusing on Facebook’s advertising, we led research trips with a cross-functional team of product managers, marketers, and engineers to Indonesia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Languages in Use
KDNuggets, always a great resource, I often referred to it from the enterprise, surveys the principal analytics and data mining languages in use today. Nicely ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Heirs Get Digital Asset Rights
Thinking the implications of this. A further recognition that data is an asset. " .... Delaware becomes first state to give executors broad digital assets access...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Negotiating Mistakes
In Fast Company: Good points, but not not quite enough about how to achieve them. A particular sales mistake I remember well: " ... Talking too much is a sure...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Widget–CS Teaching Tips
I added a new widget to my blog last night. It is connected to CS Teaching tips which is a webpage and Twitter account – @CSTeachingTips. The widget provides aCS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Hype Cycle and Digital Business
In the Informs Analytics Magazine: " .... The journey to digital business is the key theme of Gartner, Inc.'s “Hype Cycle Report for Emerging Technologies, 2014...
From My Biased Coin
Reviewing Scales
I'm just about finished reviewing for CoNEXT (Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies), and am starting reviewing for ITCS (Innovations in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Supermarket for Advertising
In Retailwire: An idea that has been tried a number of times, including in stand alone sample machines. Also called 'tryvertising'. Imagine the potential data"...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Gram's House Project Team Receives Two NSF Pathways Grants!
Gram's House is a research project I started several years ago with a prototype originally designed for Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition. Since then, a core...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Derivative Of A Number
Are you kidding? Edward Barbeau is now a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Toronto. Over the years he has been working to increase the interest...
From Putting People First
Consumer Insights: The Music Experience in 2014
Today, music is as emotionally relevant as ever – and consumers have a myriad of ways to experience it, from streaming and downloading to live concerts and more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Rising
Statistics on how the Internet of things is increasing in traffic and concern for the implications. especially resource needs and security. In Baselinemag: "...
From Schneier on Security