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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
CPG Expands Mobile and Location Branding
With some interesting numbers from SmartBlog ...CPG focuses digital spending on branding, mobile, geotracking As digital proliferates every facet of the retail...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Supporting Scientific Discovery through Norms and Practices for Software and Data Citation and Attribution
The following announcement is a special contribution from the National Science Foundation. Dear Colleague: How scientific research is conducted across all science...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why I still play video games
Video games are getting flashier, faster, shinier. It has gotten to the point that many of these games make me nauseous—literally. I honestly do not care very much...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value and Caution for Data Storytelling
I like the idea, having been introduced to the power of storytelling some time ago. What I do worry about is when the story overwhelms reality. Let's still make...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Computer at Sandia Labs
A favorite topic, with a number of labs attempting to address brain inspired neural models. Here one I had not seen as yet at Sandia Labs. " ... Researchers...
From Schneier on Security
Advances in Solving the Discrete Log Problem
At Eurocrypt this year, researchers presented a paper that completely breaks the discrete log problem in any field with a small characteristic. It's nice work,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding as Game Play
I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of how we teach computer science or perhaps just programming to younger students. Some of it brought on my the online debate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MOOCs not Meeting Expectations
In CACM:" ... The rollout of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, three years ago by some of the leading universities in the United States triggered predictions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Developments in Eye Tracking Glasses
In Engadget. New advances. in particular a way to get a denser data stream for certain kinds of marketing insight." ... Researchers and marketers often want toTobii...
From Writing
Don't learn to code. Learn to think.
It seems like everyone is trying to learn to code: Code.org has celebrities like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Chris Bosh telling you anyone can code; CoderDojo's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Computers with Conversational Skills
On Building a Smarter Planet: Future of Computers with Conversational SkillsIn A Smarter Planet, By Mike Rhodin" ... An essential part of the third era of computing...
From Schneier on Security
Pervasive Monitoring as Network Attack
New IETF RFC: "RFC 7258: Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack" that designers must mitigate. Slashdot thread....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Decoding over 4 billion integers per second in C
Programmers routinely work with lists of integers. We recently showed how to compress such lists of integers close to their entropy, while being able to decompress...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 19
May 21 Hearing: The Counterterroism and Intelligence Subcommittee and the Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies Subcommittee of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Programmatic Ad Buying Needs to be Revisited
Prompted by an AdAge article. 'Have begun .. ', the article says? We were early pioneers of programmatic advertising. Starting in the 1970s, using optimization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Three Watson Startups Announced
How well a new advanced technology service is working can be measured by how startups are effectively using its capabilities. See the full report. " ... More...
From Putting People First
People use phablets differently than smartphones and tablets
A new study from Opera Mediaworks found that people use these larger-screen devices — which combine a smartphone’s instant access to information with the tablet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Flow Reshaping the World
From McKinsey: Global Flow reshaping the world. Podcast and graphics. We examined some of these concepts in several redesigns of global supply chains. " ... Global...
From Schneier on Security
Abusing Power to Shut Down a Twitter Parody Account
This is a pretty horrible story of a small-town mayor abusing his authority -- warrants where there is no crime, police raids, incidental marijuana bust -- to identify...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson