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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 Putting People First
UK Government told to put people at centre of ‘digital revolution’
Digital services in the public sector must have user-centred design as a ‘primary focus’ if people are to benefit from IT growth, the report “Designing the Digital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buzzradar: Social Media Captured, Visualized
Just brought to my attention: Buzzradar Social Media: Captured, Visualized. " ... We monitor real-time social media content for your brand or event and visualise...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Shaped Pancakes
Here are pictures of squid-shaped pancakes. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting World Cup Outcome with Bayesian Networks
A nice example of how a Bayesian network can be used to do predictive analytics. Much more here. " ... Designed around a Causal Bayesian Network, and using the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apache Spark for Hadoop
Had not seen it before, but was recently shown an early implementation of Spark and how it could be used to efficiently drive Hadoop. Impressed by what I saw.Apache...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Talks Innovation Direction and Marketing
A nice piece on a recent talk by DARPA director of innovation, Dan Kaufman. Have had a long time connection with them, from early Pentagon days, to fairly recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Study Machine Learning
Jason Brownlee writes about machine learning, worth a look:" ... You need a structured approach. A framework for self-studying machine learning will focus yourI...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Estonia as E-Society
In the CACM: A survey of the use of electronic systems for commercial, social and government interactions in Estonia. We can learn from small country experiments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Influencing Companies
This question came up recently. Do we have rough numbers about how much social media influence companies? Of course it depends upon how you define influence and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Miser Theory
The Cognitive Miser, applications to consumer engagement? : " ... an umbrella theory of social cognition that brings together previous research on heuristics and...
From Putting People First
How to use ethnography for in-depth consumer insight
Spending a weekend sitting in someone else’s house reporting when, why and how much they ate, drank, bathed, watched TV or used their mobile phone isn’t everyone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel in Your Autonomous Car
Intel chips for automobiles. A big market, so the reach is obvious. Specifically the mention of autonomous is interesting. What are the specific needs of such...
From Writing
Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer
I love a good tech talk. I like to watch them, I like to give them, and now that I have lots of free time on my hands, I've put together a list of the must-seeThe...
From Writing
Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer
I love a good tech talk. I like to watch them, I like to give them, and now that I have lots of free time on my hands, I’ve put together a list of the must-see...
From Schneier on Security
Vulnerabilities Found in Law Enforcement Surveillance System
SEC Consult has published an advisory warning people not to use a government eavesdropping product called Recording eXpress, sold by the Israeli company Nice Systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trucks Tethered by Computer Control
In Technology Review: Would have fit right into some of our fleet simulation work. This has the potential for saving fuel. But also appearing frightening "...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Second Annual National Day of Civic Hacking May 31-June 1
Want to help make sense of the government’s Big Data? The 2nd National Day of Civic Hacking will take place this weekend, May 31 to June 1, in cities throughout...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IARPA Sharp Meets Big Data
I was reminded of the IARPA Sharp project again. To which I have a loose connection. Some of the statements below are certainly how we define intelligence ......
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualization Making Big Data Meaningful
In CACM: Includes some videos of data artists at work." ... Until recently, a good spreadsheet or perhaps a pie chart might have been sufficient to get a firmThat...
From Computational Complexity