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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 Computational Complexity
''4col \le 3col is counter-intuitive and makes me sad'' NOT ANYMORE!
In my ugrad theory class (reg,P,NP,Dec,c.e) I proved that SAT is NP-complete. In the next lecture I proved that SAT \le 3-col, so 3-col is NP-complete. I thenLeast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
6th International Conference on Concept Mapping
Colleague Brian Moon reports (The link below provides much more)Deadline Extension - CMC2014Chief Technology Officer at Perigean Technologies LLCThe deadline to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Inventory Analysis
I spent many years doing inventory analysis type work for big enterprises. This article makes some interesting and obvious arguments. But the basics are correct...
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Quantifying Ourselves
Humans becoming Cyborgs. Simplistic piece in SciAM. We are continuing to quantifying ourselves, but does that mean we are knowing ourselves better? Not without...
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CIOs and Open Source
CIOs and Open Source: Just becoming involved with examples where open source choices are in play.In CWorld: Field Notes: Clueless CIOs aside, open source is 'frightening...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connectedness and the Smartphone
In GigaOM: Other ways to connect are appearing. But the functionality of the smartphone remains distinctly powerful and convenient. Until we redefine their...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Lifting The Edge
A simple but powerful lemma: LTE Preda Mihăilescu is a mathematician who solved a famous open problem. He was trained by some of the best mathematicians in the...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Lifting The Edge
A simple but powerful lemma: LTE Preda Mihăilescu is a mathematician who solved a famous open problem. He was trained by some of the best mathematicians in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Weekly Data Science Resources
Data Science Central puts together a nice list of related papers. Descriptions and links here. Well worth following, including technical and non technical contributions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Human Interactions
A report from the recent CHI conference. On playful interactions with things like bubbles. I think game dynamics should have more playful interactions, when...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sankey Diagrams
I was reminded again yesterday of the Sankey Diagram. Their use has been influenced by examples in Edward Tufte's graphic design books. The link points to a blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
History of Photretouching
The extent to which we can trust a given image has changed much. This piece examines the history of the process. Suggesting that most photos today are fiction....
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Fossil Squid
Rare fossilized cephalopods. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Patent Public Advisory Committee Meeting on May 22, 2014
The USPTO Patent Public Advisory Committee will hold its next quarterly meeting on Thursday, May 22, 2014 from 9 am to 3 pm at the USPTO campus in Alexandria, Virginia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computational and Cognitive Creativity
An interesting article about the use of systems like Watson to add creative dimensions to what were in the past purely computational problems. We made this observation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visions 2025 – Interactions: Our Future with Social, Cognitive and Physical Intelligent Assistants
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Limor Fix. Limor recently retired from Intel, where she was the director of University Collaborative...
From Schneier on Security
How to Stop an Insider from Stealing All Your Secrets
This article from Communications of the ACM outlines some of the security measures the NSA could, and should, have had in place to stop someone like Snowden. Mostly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Expect Labs Mindmeld
Taking another look at Expectlabs. And their Mindmeld work. " ... We are undergoing a profound transformation in how we interact with our devices. Today, users...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Nominations for National Medal of Technology and Innovation Due June 2
Nominations for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation are due by June 2, 2014. The award is bestowed by the U.S. President as the country’s highest honor...
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