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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
Internet of Behaviors
Was pointed out to me. Admit I wince when think of all the 'Internet of X' alternatives we may have to expect. Still it is an interesting way, for now, to express...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Knowledge Graphs for Assistants
The MindMeld API: With an interesting mission. Leading to more intelligent voice? " .... Social physics is a big data science that models how networks of people...
From Schneier on Security
More Details on NSA Tapping the Internet Backbone
Two new stories: one from Der Spiegel in Germany (also reported in the Intercept) and the other from Dagbladet in Denmark (again, also reported in the Intercept)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hawking and AI
In CNet News: Not sure its that funny, but the caution is understood. Eventually we will need to deal wit this, but it may be some time away. " ... In a hilarious...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Things You Love Are Made With Code
Well it looks like Google is jumping into the effort to get more girls interested in computer science in a big way. Their new program is called Made with Code.From...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Privacy Solicitation includes Ideas Lab
As reported in this blog earlier in the month, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Apps for Professional Development
Good overview of continued professional education using mobile Apps. A nice idea. In particular this talks about a nursing education series.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Innovation Technology Lunch
Thanks to all who attended my business process innovation lunch today. I enjoyed it and learned much myself. Stay connected with me to continue the process. Always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
House Key as Tool and Technology
In the NYT: The simple house key, how little it has changed, and a look at the number of recent technological attempts to replace it. I like stories about how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building an All-Star Team
In the HBR: by Michael C. Mankins Though our typical view of being 'all star', is often skewed by many existing operational agendas , which is why this is hard...
From Schneier on Security
Paying People to Infect their Computers
Research paper: "It’s All About The Benjamins: An empirical study on incentivizing users to ignore security advice, by Nicolas Christin, Serge Egelman, Timothy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming as Storytelling
Code tells a story. When I hear someone talking about telling a story in code I tend to think of tools like Alice, Kodu and Scratch. After all those are tools with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BigDataLens
Also recently brought to my attention, Big Data Lens, examining. " ... Custom Big Data Algorithms and Predictive Analytics .... "" .... Bringing together human...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Natural Language Conversations
Some believe this problem has been completely solved. Not so, a fascinating piece addressing the challenges. In Computing Now. In particular for the domain of...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorem: PCP Simplified
The famous Probabilistically Checkable Proof Theorem due to Arora, Lund, Motwani, Sudan and Szegedy states that every problem in NP has a proof that can be checked...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Problem of Catching Chess Cheaters
The detection game Howard Goldowsky is the author of this month’s Chess Life cover story. Every month this magazine is mailed to about a quarter of a million players...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cojoin Analytics Startup
New colleague Thomas Ciszek points me to Cojoin.com: In Beta, you can request access. " ... We are a team of agency, web and science data veterans who grew frustrated...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
GLS10 Keynote Scot Osterweil: It's Not About the Game
When I attended the 2014 Games, Learning and Society Conference (GLS10) in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin, I did not expect to engage much with the topic of stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle