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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
Internet Subversion
In addition to turning the Internet into a worldwide surveillance platform, the NSA has surreptitiously weakened the products, protocols, and standards we all use...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 May 2014
Looking at my Facebook timeline it looks like schools in the southern US are starting to wrap up for the year already. My school has about another month or so.National...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping Image Recognition by Amazon: Flow
Have spent some time on the process of shopping using in-aisle using scanning methods. Finally got a chance to look at this method more closely using an IOS installed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Guy Kawasaki on the Art of Innovation
Guy Kawasaki on Innovation' ... “Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship … the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Press Explaining News with Technology: Vox
How much should the press explain the news rather than just present it? A colleague pointed out Vox to me. Positioned as a closer melding of technology and....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is the Data Analytics Field Consolidating?
First I heard of this. Not sure I agree. In GigaOM" ... The big data and analytics world is entering that consolidation phase right now. Buyers can’t eliminate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Data Visualization for Retail
Recall I mentioned this effort here before. Now a reminder from the HBR:' ... “Retailers are all using scanner data to track what happened at the point of sale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Historical Look at Netscape
Our labs were early users of the Mosaic browser to communicate with University research. We watched the work of Jim Clark out of SGI with Marc Andreessen. We...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Synthetic Biology Conference
In the NYT: A topic we linked with the Santa Fe Institute on. Also with MIT prof Neil Gershenfeld, who is quoted in the article. " Neil Gershenfeld, ...the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Correlation does not mean Causation
A group of amusing slides that make the case. Probably best as examples for the non scientist managers you work with. But you would be surprised how much effort...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Basic Tools for Data Viz
From Vincent Granville in Data Science Central: 30 Basic Tools for data visualization. Software and other resources. No reason anyone should not be able to deal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping by Scanning Images
In MarketWatch: We experimented with approaches that used watermarks embedded in packaging. Includes a short video demo to show it in operation" .... You can...
From Wild WebMink
Steering Where You Look
Originally posted on Meshed Insights & Knowledge:When I learned to drive, my instructor told me “you steer where you look” — in other words, wherever you focus...
From Putting People First
Anthropologists as scholarly hipsters
Can looking at the hipster tell us something about the anthropologist and the academy? Alex Posecznick (anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania) explores...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
UCLA Sanjam Garg Wins ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually to the author of the best doctoral dissertation in computer science and engineering. Sanjam Garg, who...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
State of the Net Wireless Keynote by Cellphone Pioneer Martin Cooper
The inventor of the wireless phone, Martin Cooper, called for a spectrum policy roadmap focused on promoting efficient use, competition, and innovation at this...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Evolutionary Purpose of Pain
A new study shows that Doryteuthis pealei in pain -- or whatever passes for pain in that species -- has heightened sensory sensitivity and heightened reactions....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Data from High Performance Computing
Simulation creates a great deal of data, so it naturally links well with visualization Every industrial simulation we wrote for the enterprise was linked to a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Food and Beverage Retail
A Podcast of interest. " .... Nearly every company wants to acquire more customers and keep them longer. Yet in some ways, that’s more challenging now than ever...
From The Eponymous Pickle