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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
Computer Forensics in Fiction
New television show -- CSI: Cyber. I hope they have some good technical advisers, but I doubt they do....
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
NEXP and the Next Generation
Saluting Alan Selman upon the occasion of his retirement Photos by Marty Kerker Alan Selman is retiring after a long and illustrious career, the longest part spent...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
NEXP and the Next Generation
Saluting Alan Selman upon the occasion of his retirement Photos by Marty Kerker Alan Selman is retiring after a long and illustrious career, the longest part spent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Plans a Smartphone
Retail giant Tesco plans to introduce an Android smartphone this year. In Retailwire. Most interesting part: " ... Tesco's smartphone, and the Hudl, will include...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Analytics Handbook, Part III
As I mentioned, this is less a handbook, and more a set of informative interviews of practitioners and promoters of the topic. Now Tristan Tao writes:" We are...
From CERIAS Blog
In Memorium: Wyatt Starnes
William Wyatt Starnes passed away unexpectedly on May 10th, 2014 at the age of 59. Wyatt was a serial entrepreneur, known for his work in computing — and especially...
From CERIAS Blog
In Memorium: Wyatt Starnes
William Wyatt Starnes passed away unexpectedly on May 10th, 2014 at the age of 59. Wyatt was a serial entrepreneur, known for his work in computing — and especially...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics for CPG
From Accenture. An interesting overview report with quite a bit of detail. Pointing to a recent study. No specific companies are mentioned, but I do know some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone with Oculus Support
IEEE Spectrum reports on a natural progression, the interaction of physical devices, like drones, and Augmented reality interfaces, like the Oculus Rift. display...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Management Best Practices at GE
Have always been impressed in my occasional collaboration. Includes some interesting examples. " .... A fundamental challenge of any firm – especially a huge ...
From Schneier on Security
New NSA Snowden Documents
Glenn Greenwald's book, No Place to Hide, has been published today. There are about 100 pages of NSA documents on the book's website. I haven't gone through them...
From Schneier on Security
Steganography in Tweets
Clever, but make sure to heed the caveats in the final two paragraphs....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Does moving to a better university make you a better researcher?
Deville et al. studied the performance of physics professors as they moved from one job to another. They found that moving to a lesser school lowered the impact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding Faces and Consumer Behavior
Understanding consumer behavior by building on facial recognition software. Work that came out of MIT where we saw it being used to trap and classify emotional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Home Appliances from LG
An area we examined for years. How could smart appliances be integrated into the home? And what are the implications for the large CPG company? A short look...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Welcomes Helen Vasaly
Computing Research Association is pleased to announce the hire of Helen Vasaly as a Program Associate for the Computing Community Consortium. In her current role...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Look at Hadoop and Big Data
Good piece by Tina Groves. I have discovered that many technologists, especially in the small to medium sized businesses, do not understand the value Hadoop or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Social Physics Course
Of interest, can be audited free." ... Social physics is a big data science that models how networks of people behave and uses these network models to create actionable...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 12
May 14 Hearing: The Senate Rules and Administration Committee will hold a hearing on elections data. 9:30 a.m., 301 Russell Building May 15 Hearing: The Investigations...
From Computational Complexity