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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 Geeking with Greg
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What caught my attention lately: Great idea for walking directions: "At times, we do not [want] the fastest route ... When walking, we generally prefer tiny streets...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart.com Re-designs
In Retailwire: Making a move to look and work more like Amazon. " ... Walmart.com saw its (online) sales rise 27 percent last quarter following a 30 percent increase...
From Computational Complexity
How I know Moneyball is a true story. Do we clean up theorems and life too much?
A few years ago I saw the movie Moneyball about how the Oakland A's used intelligent statistics to... win? No, but to do better-than-expected. Even if I didn't...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It's Hard To Make Easy Projects
I’ve been working on my lesson plans for this year and one thing I always struggle with is creating projects. Oh I have lots in my tool box but I am always looking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Game to Map the Brain: Eyewire
One of a number of crowdsourcing games out there in cosmology, genetics and beyond. Several have been around for many years. I like the idea, but have thereEyeWire...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emoticons and Neuroscience
Do emoticons have a neuroscience? How are they different than the use of text? I thought I had noticed that there were fewer of them out in the wild these days...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Store as the Next Killer App
Discovered WayFind: A conversation about the customer experience: Here talking about the use of the use of the retail store as the next killer App. " ... “Buy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taking an Opportunity View
In the HBR, may require registration: " ... The innovative ideas that led to the companies Nest and Square started when their founders sought to improve everyday...
From Schneier on Security
SynoLocker Ransomware Demands Bitcoins
Network-attached storage devices made by Synology are being attacked, and their data encrypted, by ransomware that demands $350 in bitcoins (payable anonymously...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Living Our Life in Stories
In The Edge: Stories as problem resolution narratives. " ... We think of stories as a wildly creative art form but within that creativity and that diversity there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coursera Consumer Neuromarketing Course
Via the Copenhagen Business School, no background required. Worked with the CBS in the past in this context.An Introduction to Consumer Neuroscience & Neuromarketing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Un-Siloed Data is Exponential
In Adage: CEO of AOL Platforms makes some interesting comments on Innovation and the value of data. Like inertia stifles innovation .... (Well yes) And on data...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Announces New Leadership
ACM President Alex Wolf has appointed Ed Felten as Chair and Stuart Shapiro and Jeremy Epstein as Co-Vice Chairs of the ACM U.S. Public Policy Council. Alex Wolf...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Europe Council and U.S. Public Policy Council Address Computing Issues in EU-US Free Trade Agreement
The ACM Europe Council and the ACM U.S. Public Policy Council presented a consensus position on policy issues relevant to the computing field to negotiators of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Silent Risk
A colleague writes:" ... For those interested in the mathematical beauty of highly unlikely but very impactful events : a draft version (for comments) of Silent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows 8
I have been using Windows 8 for some time, have gotten used to its oddities, but based on that experience and what I have heard from more casual users, it is aThe...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Recent ISAT/DARPA Workshop on Brain: Analysis Synthesis Computation
The following is a special contribution to this blog by by CCC Executive Council Member Mark Hill and workshop organizers Hanspeter Pfister, An Wang Professor of...
From Schneier on Security
Former NSA Director Patenting Computer Security Techniques
Former NSA Director Keith Alexander is patenting a variety of techniques to protect computer networks. We're supposed to believe that he developed these on his...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson