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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 Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2014)
I'm at SHB 2014: the Seventh Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. This is a small invitational gathering of people studying various...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reliably Teleporting Data
In the NYT: Considerably commented on. Still a simple example, but an indication that quantum physics can be the basis for action at a distance.Scientists inIn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Companies with Top Global Supply Chains
By peer review in Gartner. Having been involved in the design aspects of these for many years, it's good to see the short section on the aspects of the exceptional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Programmatic Buying at P&G
Programmatic Ad Buying. A means of digitizing a key aspect of CPG enterprise operations. As I have mentioned before we did this kind of thing as early as the...
From Putting People First
Sharing City Seoul: a model for the world
The Seoul city government has officially embraced the sharing economy by designating Seoul a Sharing City and is working in partnership with NGOs and private companies...
From Putting People First
IKEA’s Life At Home report
Core77 has drawn my attention to IKEA’s newly launched Life At Home report, which explores the home lives of people all over the globe, with a focus on the morning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tour of Machine Learning Methods
Very nice overview. Suitable as a starting point for talking to management. This includes both a description of the algorithm, and the underlying method for using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tetris at 30, Simplicity and Engagement
The game phenomenon called Tetris is now only 30 years old. We were shown it as as an example of simplicity combined with engagement. An interview with the creator...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing Wolfram Alpha and Watson
A conversation recently led to discussion of the differences between IBM Watson and Wolfram Alpha. So what are the differences? Our own experiences with 'expert...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Nearby
The idea of 'nearby' is a classic locational switch. Google rumored to integrate it into its abilities. Similar to iBeacon capabilties? Likely as the need to...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cartoon
Rhymes with Orange. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Computational Complexity
Do you support CCC's declaration of Ind? If so...
The steering committee for the CCC recently announced its decision to be independent of IEEE. Here is their open letter to that effect. If you agree with thishere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Hands that Can See
Had seen this proposed a long time ago. Now reported in New Scientist. Not so much hands free as hands augmented. And with multiple seeing hands we could readily...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Mini-Course 2014: Survey Results
After a one-year hiatus, I ran my all-girls mini-course on computer science and games again this past May. Along with a picture of my lovely class, I wanted to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Value for Retail
I have heard relatively few retail examples of big data value. Here is a take on that." ... According to research by Wipro, 78 percent of retailers are collecting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Research Center
Launched this week by Data Science Central. Of interest. Examining it now. " .... Data Science Central launched this week the Data Science Research Center, a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Fellow Leslie Lamport
Have followed the ACM for years. I try to read some of the the work of each Turing Award Recipient.Welcome to the Digital Edition of the June 2014 Communications...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF, Intel Labs Partner on Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Privacy
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Keith Marzullo, division director for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Computer and Network...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Is This a Proof?
Seeking the limits of mathematical proofs Ivan Vinogradov was a famous mathematician who created a whole method, named after him, that allowed him to make major...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP