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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
Real Time App Features
Mindmeld writes about real time App features. I remain interested in their APIs which augment App capabilities.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Free Webinar on Cybersecurity and Public Policy on June 25
Navigating Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Six Key Issues ACM Learning Center Webinar Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 11 am ET Registration: Free. Advance registration...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Recent ISAT/DARPA Workshop Targeted Approximate Computing
The following is a special contribution to this blog by by CCC Executive Council Member Mark Hill and workshop organizers Luis Ceze, Associate Professor in the...
From Computational Complexity
How many ways can you make change of n cents?
(For a related post see my post on Schur's theorem. The paper THIS post refers to is here.) (ADDED LATER: A commenter pointed to Graham-Knuth-Patashnik forhere...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 June 2014
School’s out for the summer! Not that I haven’t been busy doing a lot of stuff I just haven’t had time for during the school year. And this week I am getting ready...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What YOU Think of CSTA
Once a year we send out a survey link to members. We alternate between a survey that focuses on the landscape of Computer Science education (the National Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Hadoop Tweetchat Overview
I see that IBM sponsored Tweetchat on 'Hadoop, Where it's been and Where it is Going' is nicely summarized in this blog. I listened in by invitation, contributed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics for Decision Makers Needed before Autopilots
Ultimately all analytics is about decision making. From the most simple yes/no, to the most complex management of risk portfolios. Decision making usually includes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Links Between Humans and Machines Blur
Hail Cyborg's: Still don't think this is true in any reasonable, practical sense. We are on the verge of making them useful assistants in a human knowledge sense...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Technology and Library Users
A view of Pew research on the users of (physical) libraries. And a quiz to show if you are a library lover. I still admit to being one. Interesting findings are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Nose
Transmitting aroma was a task we examined for years, most notably for coffee applications, but for a number of others as well. Can you accurately deconstruct...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Programmatic Buying and Creativity
Does programmatic buying decrease creativity? This was brought up in a number of analytic realms very early on, because they tended to use only a single measure...
From Putting People First
Report: Mapping and developing Service Design Research in the UK
The aim of the Service Design Research UK (SDR UK) Network of the Network is to review and consolidate the current state of Service Design knowledge within the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pinker on Writing in the 21st Century
Favorite writer Steven Pinker on Brain and Language writes in the Edge. And Video." ... What are the arts but products of the human mind which resonate with our...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistics and Big Data Science
A Statisticians View on Big Data and Data Science ... Good thoughts in a slide share via colleague. " by Diego Kuonen, CEO, PhD in Statistics, CStat PStat CSci...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gesture App to Produce Spoken Language
Turing sign language into spoken language in real time. In Mashable. Under development: " ... The app — called Google Gesture — is paired with a band worn on...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Ruth Reichl Cooks Squid
Quick and easy recipe. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From My Biased Coin
See You in Prague
For those of you going to SPAA this coming week, I'll see you there. I'll be giving the last two talks at the conference, to what I expect (based on the timing)...
From My Biased Coin
NSF Thanks for the Year
It's that time of year where, as a background process, I have to do my annual reviews for the NSF. It's generally not a very exciting task, and their online forms...
From Schneier on Security