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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 Apophenia
‘Selling Out’ Is Meaningless: Teens live in the commercial world we created
In the recent Frontline documentary “Generation Like,” Doug Rushkoff lamented that today’s youth don’t even know what the term “sell-out” means. While this surprised...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Goosebumps in Real Time
In CACM: A particular kind of sensory -emotional measurement I had not seen before. How does this compare to galvanic skin response, which it seems to be related...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Birthday of the Barcode
The Barcode is 40 years old. Like with many computing anniversaries, the age seems small. My enterprise was involved with its development, standardization and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Data in this Blog: Old Links
Had cause to help several people use this blog to mine efforts in the area of Big Data applications of value to Retail. We found a number of interesting applications...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing a Cure for HIV
On June 26, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a Discovery article titled Computing a Cure for HIV, written by Aaron Dubrow, Public Affairs Specialist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Midmarket Business and the Cloud: Reshaping the World of Business
Participated in this conference call yesterday. Reshaping the World of Business Nicely done. The speakers brought their experiences forward. I followed with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain is a Step to Profit
A key to increasing Profit. In Industry Week." ...Supply chain optimization and supplier management are important steps toward boosting profit. Companies can get...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Essential Hadoop Tools
Some essential Hadoop tools. An introductory slideshow, which is useful for the beginner. And a useful explanatory overview " ... .While many refer to the entire...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does Math Look Like in 3D?
In Wired: An early interest, probably the first thing I wrote about, long before blogs, always hoped there would be practical applications, but never found one...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
June 27 Congressional Briefing on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Aereo Decision
Tomorrow, the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee will hold a lunch briefing responsive to yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in American Broadcasting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Researchers Use Reconfigurable Hardware (FPGAs) to Accelerate Production Web Search
The following is a special contribution to this blog by by CCC Executive Council Member Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Times they are a changing...
From Schneier on Security
More on Hacking Team's Government Spying Software
Hacking Team is an Italian malware company that sells exploit tools to governments. Both Kaspersky Lab and Citizen Lab have published detailed reports on its capabilities...
From Computational Complexity
Computer Dating
My brother went through his old stuff cleaning out his apartment in New York and stumbled upon the 1981 computer dating questionnaire I wrote in high school. Forgive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Capturing Mood
In CW: I have been introduced to some efforts by Intel in the retail interaction space, this has interesting applications in engagement and interaction. Morein...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IARPA Seeking Brain-like Algorithms
In CACM: Interesting take. I am always skeptical when a requirement to be 'brain like', is included. It is an option, but not the only option, or even the best...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where are the Retail Data Scientists?
I would like to see more coverage in the retail data world. We had and still have many practitioners, just not called 'data scientists'. Some very good points...
From The Eponymous Pickle
No Such Thing as Unstructured Data? Define it With Care.
Right, the term is broadly used. It really means in many cases 'not structured enough for the purpose at hand'. In a recent architecture project fo BI it meant...
From Schneier on Security
Pepper Spray Drones
Coming soon to a protest near you: drones that fire pepper spray bullets. Desert Wolf's website states that its Skunk octacopter drone is fitted with four high-capacity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving Word Problems
We used this as a test problem while teaching textual language AI, has it progressed? At least from my very cursory look at the examples, yes. But is it good enough...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog