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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
Beacons in Retail
More on Beacons in retail. " ... Beacons are showing up everywhere. It's open season for retailers as more apps are developed to take advantage of beacon technology...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Core Program Solicitations Posted
The National Science Foundation, Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Core Program solicitations have been posted. There are no major...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Origami-Inspired Robots Spring to Life
Inspired by the traditional Japanese art form of origami, researchers from Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have figured out how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Commerce and Physical Retail
In the HBR Blogs: Suggesting that e-commerce is not as divisive to physical as is assumed. May require some registration. The statistics are interesting" ......
From Schneier on Security
New Snowden Interview in Wired
There's a new article on Edward Snowden in Wired. It's written by longtime NSA watcher James Bamford, who interviewed Snowden is Moscow. There's lots of interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stress Scanning Camera
In the South China Morning Post: Another example of emotion detection by imaging and analysis:" ... Chinese scientists develop mini-camera to scan crowds for potential...
From Schneier on Security
Security as Interface Guarantees
This is a smart and interesting blog post: I prefer to think of security as a class of interface guarantee. In particular, security guarantees are a kind of correctness...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Our Three Body Problem
The three body problem, computer theory style Ellis Horowitz is one of the founders of the theory of algorithms. His thesis with George Collins in 1969 had the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connection Analytics from Teradata
Been some time since I have worked with Teradata, but I see they are supporting an Ovum white paper on connection analytics. Understand it as described, though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humor at Work
My former colleague Andrew Tarvin does a TED talk on Humor at work. Also on Facebook. He is now a Humor Engineer at Humor that Works. Nice idea for the enterprise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Glasses Get More Augmentation Software
Have always made a point that applications for wearable glasses, like Google Glass, are most valuably applied to augmented reality applications. Mentioned this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing Moves into Production
Good view of examples of how realistic commercial 3D printing is being used in manufacturing and how it may realign supply chain systems. Still narrow domains...
From Schneier on Security
Automatic Scanning for Highly Stressed Individuals
This borders on ridiculous: Chinese scientists are developing a mini-camera to scan crowds for highly stressed individuals, offering law-enforcement officers a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hospitals Mining Your Credit Card Behavior
In Businessweek. This scenario has been much in the news. It is starting to happen:" ... Imagine getting a call from your doctor if you let your gym membership...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hospitality Robotics Experiment at Starwood
Robots in Hotels. Perhaps not really as multi-functional as what we could call butlers. But you can see how they can be applied. Now how will this influence employment...
From Computational Complexity
Subhash Khot wins Nevanlinna
At the opening ceremonies of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014, Subhash Khot was awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, given every four years to...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Report on the CSTA Annual Conference
This past July 14-15, 326 attendees converged on St. Charles, Illinois, for the 2014 CSTA Annual Conference. This number continues the impressive growth of the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Expanding cybersecurity and privacy research
The National Science Foundation (NSF)‘s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program has announced two Frontier-scale projects, part of a $74.5 million investment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenges for Google Glass
Good Wired piece on the challenges for the success of Google Glass. In our own enterprise experiment we also met some of these same issues. Still have not seen...
From The Eponymous Pickle