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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
BigDataLens Revisited
I revisited the site of BigDataLens. Most interesting, their blog. A form of interestingly constructed pattern recognition / predictive analytics. Worth a look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nature of Creativity of the Brain
Replay of some recent talks and discussion at the Santa Fe Institute. " ... Creativity is a key ingredient of both science and art, but how much can scientific...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
22 Of The Most Powerful Women Engineers In The World
We often hear about the dearth of women in computer science and engineering fields. Many organizations are working hard to attract and retain women in these fields...
From Schneier on Security
How Google Glass Snoops Steal Your Passcode
Researchers are refining the techniques of surreptitiously videoing people as they type in their passwords. Other hackers have shown it's possible to perform automated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Pixels Update
I am following a number of Augmented Reality companies. Here are the latest updates from Augmented Pixels. in Odessa. " ... First of all, Large Silicon ValleyFull...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Supply Chain Risk
In CGMA Mag: Good ideas here. You can can manage your risks, often by simulating alternatives. " ... A global poll of more than 1,000 senior executives by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facts about the Internet of Things
Some obvious yes, but useful thoughts about the internet of things." ... If something isn't connected to the Internet—whether human, animal, household appliance...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
High School Theorems
Taking a conjecture about identities to college Alex Wilkie is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and holds the Fielden Chair in Mathematics at the University of Manchester...
From Schneier on Security
This Common Home Appliance Can Compromise Your Entire Security
LIFX is a smart light bulb that can be controlled with your smart phone via your home's Wi-Fi network. Turns out that anyone within range can obtain the Wi-Fi password...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lovelace Test versus Turing Test
More powerful in testing machine intelligence than the Turing test, it is claimed, from Slashdot. I had not heard of this particular term. A generalized nonarticle...
From Computational Complexity
Is there a word for the top part of a binomial coefficient?
Consider the sequence: x/y, (x+1)/y, (x+2)/y, ..., (x+z)/y one could say in this sequence of fractions the numerators goes through z-1 consecutive numbers. ...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
You Can Be An Advocate!
Yes, you can! If I can be an advocate you can be one too! It is not difficult to get started. I began by advocating at my school site for computer science with...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit will be Live Streamed!
The 15th Annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit is taking place July 14-15, 2014 in Redmond, WA. There is an exciting program planned with topics including computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Map Hacking
Had never heard of this, but in Wired. It is a pretty serious thing if a supposedly perfect map and associated business list is hacked. It is happening. A Danger...
From CERIAS Blog
Update on “Patching is Not Security”
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post entitled “Patching Is Not Security.” Among other elements, I described a bug in some Linksys routers that was not patched and was...
From CERIAS Blog
Update on “Patching is Not Security”
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post entitled “Patching Is Not Security.” Among other elements, I described a bug in some Linksys routers that was not patched and was...
From Apophenia
The Cost of Contemporary Policing: A Review of Alice Goffman’s ‘On the Run’
Growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the 80s and 90s, I had a pretty strong sense of fear and hatred for cops. I got to witness corruption and intimidation...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Spied on Prominent Muslim Americans
The latest story from the Snowden documents is about five prominent Muslim Americans who were spied on by the NSA and FBI. It's a good story, and I recommend reading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Hadoop?
A non technical introduction by colleague Bernard Marr, nicely done, an intro to some big data concepts as well.
From The Eponymous Pickle