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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
Intel Very Interested in Wearables
Intel, apparently drawn by the opportunity of many more chip bearing devices, is closely examining the Wearable computing market. Here an overview their interests...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Metadata
Via Robin Bloor. I will note here that the term metadata has multiple functional definitions, but this still has some useful thoughts.Does Big Data Mean Big ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sparseness of Linguistic Big Data
Interesting comment that we can confirm, but it's not unlike many events, statistically rare events are often problematic. In Language Log: At first I disagreed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
In Science Magazine:" ... Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs. Those...
From Schneier on Security
The Democratization of Surveillance
MarketWatch has a list of five apps for spying on your spouse....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computers Don’t Do Ambiguity Well
I’ve seen several variations of the image below over the years. The last time I saw it I decided I’m going to use it with my computer science students next year...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hypothalamus as Brain Operating System?
In Technology Review:Coordinating sensory inputs, making sense of them, and coordinating response. Have seen this mentioned before, but we should be cautious about...
From Schneier on Security
Story of a $10 Million Remote Scam
This is a bizarre story of an almost-happened $10 million scam. It reads like an obviously phony Nigerian 419 scam, but it actually fooled what seem to be smart...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competing in a Digital Age
McKinsey piece that has some excellent statistics and specific examples. What does it mean to go digital? How does it help you compete? " ... Strategic principles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linked Data for Gathering Knowledge
I was referred back to the use of what is called Linked Data: In the WP: " ... In computing, linked data (often capitalized as Linked Data) describes a method...
From Schneier on Security
Use of Social Media by ISIS
Here are two articles about how effectively the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) -- the militant group that has just taken over half of Iraq -- is using social...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) recently posted a new solicitation for the Cyberlearning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curse of Dimensionality
Nicely done piece on classification using multiple features, the dilemma of dimensionality. I will not use the word curse here. It can be a challenge of course...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Things We Argue About
I shared the image below on my Facebook page last week. As I write this there are ten “Likes” and nineteen comments from my friends. Over how curly braces should...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What are you doing this summer?
The school year is ending soon. For some it is over. AP CS teachers are happy the AP exam is over and many of them are looking forward to the AP CS reading. Others...
From The Eponymous Pickle
88 Percent of Shoppers Webroom
Some useful statistics in Retailwire. " .... The act of webrooming, or the process of researching products online then buying them in store, has become the new...
From Schneier on Security
The State of Cyberinsurance
Good essay on the current state of cyberinsurance. So where does that leave the growing cyber insurance industry as it tries to figure out what losses it should...
From Computational Complexity
Ref/info request for an obvious approach to GI
Talking about Graphi Isom with some students they came up with the following idea which is certainly not new; however, I couldn't quite find much about it on the...
From My Biased Coin
Sad News: Berthold Vöcking
I have just seen the news that Berthold Vöcking passed away. For those who didn't know him, Berthold was an oustanding researcher in algorithms. We had several...
From The Eponymous Pickle