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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
Dysfunctional Teams and Healthy Ecosystems
In FastCompany: An interesting view. Somewhat over segmented. Have seen some of these examples. It then suggests healthier ecosystems. Good idea, but also...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Collaboration: Cisco Spring Roll
Some of this discovered rather late, but Cisco provides new a prototype of collaboration features for its Telepresence brand. Called Spring Roll. Eweek discusses...
From Schneier on Security
Securing the Nest Thermostat
A group of hackers are using a vulnerability in the Next thermostat to secure it against Nest's remote data collection....
From Computational Complexity
The Burden of Large Enrollments
This week I'm at the CRA Snowbird conference, the biennial meeting of CS chairs and other leaders in the field. In 2012 many of the discussion focused on MOOCS....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Potentially bogus freelancing advice
For nearly 20 years, I have been freelancing: selling my skills as a free agent. I do very little freelancing these days, but I still regularly give advice to students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Analytics Ranked High in C-Suite
In Research Mag: " ... 56% of consumer goods and retail business leaders cite data analytics as being important to their firm’s strategy, according to a recent...
From Putting People First
Call to bring refugee-led innovation into humanitarian work
The humanitarian sector must lift barriers to user-led innovation by refugee communities if it is to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world, says a new report...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One semi colon away from disaster
At a recent workshop Alexander Repenning said that sometimes teaching programming is “one semi colon away from disaster.” How true that is. Minor syntax issues,...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Shifts In Algorithm Design
How to find approximate page rank fast, among other things Jennifer Chayes is the current director of a research lab in Cambridge—that is Cambridge Massachusetts—for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats New in Social Science?
Am a long time reader of The Edge. So What's new in social science? Pretty massive and have only peeked at it, but take your time ...." ... Now, for the first...
From Schneier on Security
Fingerprinting Computers By Making Them Draw Images
Here's a new way to identify individual computers over the Internet. The page instructs the browser to draw an image. Because each computer draws the image slightly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IT as Creatives in the Enterprise
In CIO: How could this not be so? An efficient means to gather data, pass it to the parts of the entperprise that need it the most and leverage it with continually...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating Cardiovascular Drugs
The idea of this kind of in-silico drug testing has been around for a long time, we worked briefly with an effort at the University of California San Diego in a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Buy Button Test
In Retailwire: Will people buy directly on Facebook? Possibly, but I have never see FB as a commercial context. A test is underway. " ... Users on desktop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Resolution Flexible Display
Flexible screens continue to emerge. We examined them for applications like advanced packaging and integrated shelf displays. Its likely now that they will be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson and Academic Institutions
Have had some discussions on this concept. There is considerable interest in academia, but the ideas have to be tied to course structure, AND be of real interest...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 July 2014
What a week I had last week. The CSTA Annual Conference, the National CS Principles Summit and then the CSTA Board meeting. I need a rest. I tweeted a lot fromB...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Project Adam AI for Visual Recognition
There is more going on in AI than just IBM's Watson, here more focused, addressing one of the most important tasks of sensory recognition. In TechTimes: See...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinkvine and Damon Ragusa
Have followed Thinkvine here for some time, out enterprise connected with them and have touched base number of times since their creation in 2000 by Damon Ragusa...
From The Eponymous Pickle