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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 Schneier on Security
US National Guard is Getting Into Cyberwar
The Maryland Air National Guard needs a new facility for its cyberwar operations: The purpose of this facility is to house a Network Warfare Group and ISR Squadron...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Riken Research
A long time research resource on Japan, Riken Research writes:" ... The latest printed edition of RIKEN Research, containing a selection of articles published on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data, Marketing and Finance
Some thin case studies in the HBR blogs. But it is clear that the deeper use of analytics techniques on growing and complex gathered data will from now on be essential...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pipelines and Forecast Timing
In E-Commercetimes: The timing of forecast value is an important aspect. It's part of the decision process that is often forgotten." ... Analytics should be able...
From Putting People First
When science, customer service, and human subjects research collide. Now what?
Mary L. Gray wrote a long essay for ethnographymatters that argues that technology builders and interface designers, data scientists and ethnographers (working...
From Putting People First
Ethnography : an antifragile practice?
Simon Roberts of Stripe Partners continues his three part series on ethnography. In the first two posts in this series he examined ethnography as practiced in two...
From Computational Complexity
Elfdrive
New York Times, dateline June 11, 2019 With a near record-setting investment announced last week, the self-driving car service Elfdrive is the hottest, mostpiece...
From Schneier on Security
Hackers Steal Personal Information of US Security-Clearance Holders
The article says they were Chinese but offers no evidence: The intrusion at the Office of Personnel Management was particularly disturbing because it oversees a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MOOCs and MBA Programs
In Knowledge@Wharton, Interview and video:" ... In a new research paper, Christian Terwiesch, professor of operations and information management at Wharton, and...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Constructive Sets
An approach to complexity lower bounds? Book source Kurt Gödel did it all, succinctly. His famous 1938 paper “The Consistency of the Axiom of Choice and of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Apple Partnership for Mobile
I was struck by this announcement yesterday because it includes many of the needs we addressed in the enterprise when we understood that mobile capabilities would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Searching for Live Hangouts
Interesting idea to search for live events in Google Hangouts. In test. Have now used hangouts a number of times for small group communications. Simple interface...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Save The Date for the 2015 CSTA Annual Conference
Yes, we just finished the Computer Science Teachers Association conference. And it was a great one. You can get copies of many of the presentation decks at http...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IT is Cracking the C Suite
In the HBR Blog: Well yes, but it has been there selectively, for a long time. Well understood for several decades that its values are not overhead, but essential...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Dr. Keith Marzullo reappointed as Division Director for Computer and Network Systems at NSF
Below is a Letter from Dr. Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Future IT Organizations
In CIOInsight: Transformation yes, but also making things work efficiently." ... If I have one major complaint about how IT executives have seen their role, it...
From Schneier on Security
Security Against Traffic Analysis of Cloud Data Access
Here's some interesting research on foiling traffic analysis of cloud storage systems. Press release....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung and SmartThings
In GigaOM: Samsung is in negotiation to buy home automation company SmartThings. The connection makes lots of sense. Though as I have mentioned here before,"...
From Writing
The Saga Of The Stank
My hand is over my mouth, my eyes are watering, and I'm trying to hold my breath, but every few seconds, my throat tries to turn itself inside out. Most smells,...
From Writing