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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
AppInventor and Teaching Logic
On teaching programming, and using it as a method to teach logic in general. Judy Robertson in the CACM.
From Schneier on Security
Forged SSL Certificates Pervasive on the Internet
About 0.2% of all SSL certificates are forged. This is the first time I've ever seen a number based on real data. News article: Of 3.45 million real-world connections...
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Dual Booting Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04
It appears that Windows remains ahead in this operating systems arm race: dual booting with Linux has become even more difficult. Here are some updated instructions...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Docs Show Oracle Academy Alignment with CS Standards
The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and Oracle have released a series of new documents that demonstrate alignment between the CSTA K-12 Computer Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Blog at Computer Now: Business Intelligence
Looks to be well done.MajorBI-All Things Business Intelligence:Is Your Company Ready to Deploy Business Intelligence Intelligently?" ... Although the majority of...
From Schneier on Security
Is Antivirus Dead?
Symantec declared anti-virus dead, and Brian Krebs writes a good response. He's right: antivirus won't protect you from the ever-increasing percentage of malware...
From Computational Complexity
Losing the Middle
In the 70's growing up, to listen to music I had a turntable for vinyl records. The quality of music went up almost continuously with the amount you were willing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at an Analytics Solutions Cloud Marketplace
The medium size business always needs help with choices. They need easy to make choices that are as inexpensive as possible, and link directly to their current...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Bayesian Methods to Find the Malaysian Airplane
Via the SAS Blog. Good example of predictive analytics with a not generally well known technique for Big Data practitioners. Set in a real world tactical problem...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco CEO on E-Commerce
Been looking at how retailers address e-commerce futures. Here a piece by the Tesco CEO on e-commerce. Not too unexpected." ... Tesco group chief executive Philip...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning in Excel
Slide show on a number of techniques, including add-ons to Excel for machine learning. Not much detail, but informative about software I had not seen as yet.
From Schneier on Security
Seventh Movie-Plot Threat Contest Semifinalists
On April 1, I announced the Seventh Movie Plot Threat Contest: The NSA has won, but how did it do it? How did it use its ability to conduct ubiquitous surveillance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of the All Data Enterprise
It has arrived, but many companies are discovering that putting all this data together is harder than you think. Not all is captured, or structured, or even fully...
From Schneier on Security
Espionage vs. Surveillance
According to NSA documents published in Glenn Greenwald's new book No Place to Hide, we now know that the NSA spies on embassies and missions all over the world...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USTR Annual Special 301 Report on Intellectual Property Rights
Piracy of devices, storage technologies, and mobile technologies is growing worldwide according to the USTR’s annual Special 301 Report on Intellectual Property...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ExperienceOne Customer Engagement Solution
Just brought to my attention:IBM just released ExperienceOne - an analytics and automation-based customer engagement solution that ties together marketing, sales...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Morphological Approaches to Engineering Design
A long time correspondent, Tom Ritchey, sends a note about an analytical approach that is little used in enterprise, but should be much better known. Using the...
From Schneier on Security
New Al Qaeda Encryption Software
The Web intelligence company Recorded Future is reporting -- picked up by the Wall Street Journal -- that al Qaeda is using new encryption software in the wake...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automatic Design: Learning from a Network
The connection between automated configuration and design. Here Cisco is talking about a technical network thing. I am not so much interested in how networks...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science