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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
Thinking like a Programmer
In the CACM recently. There is real value in being able to think like a programmer. It's like being able to think like an accountant. Logical, precision, and...
From Computational Complexity
Every Theory Grad Student should know...
This semester my Graduate Complexity Course has nine students in it. It had not been offered for two years (when it had around 20) so the demand, such as it is,...
From Schneier on Security
Correspondence Between the NSA and Google Leaked
Al Jazeera is reporting on leaked emails (not leaked by Snowden, but by someone else) detailing close ties between the NSA and Google. There are no smoking guns...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IT Consumerization Survey
Good look at the topic. With a slide show about the idea and a number of fallacies involved. " .... Business and IT decision-makers have a strong preference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pocket Molecular Sensor
MJ Perry reports on this pocket spectrometer. Connectable to a smartphone/ Another example of advanced sensors, that will eventually add additional data to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
See Through Augmented Reality Screens
A competitive approach to ideas like Google Glass. Wearable displays with floating screens. But with built in augmented reality implications. FromMetaio company...
From Schneier on Security
Fearing Google
Mathias Dopfner writes an open letter explaining why he fears Google: We know of no alternative which could offer even partially comparable technological prerequisites...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CSTB Releases a Report on Cybersecurity and Public Policy
The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) released a new National Academies report, At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Some Basic Concepts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conjoin Analytics
Was introducted to this interesting company. " ... Cojoin: Analytics Combined! .... Cojoin combines marketing and analytics data to quickly visualize overall...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eyes Sensing Motion
In Nature: " ... A vast project to map neural connections in the mouse retina may have answered the long-standing question of how the eyes detect motion. ... "How...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introduction to the Internet of Things
Good overview of the topic. We heard about this idea years ago in work with MIT. It remains a key future concept. But also a complex set of requirements andwhat...
From Apophenia
What if the sexual predator image you have in your mind is wrong?
(I wrote the following piece for Psychology Today under the title “Sexual Predators: The Imagined and the Real.”) If you’re a parent, you’ve probably seen the creepy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Origin of Trancendant Singularity
I had thought that Kurzweil was the originator of the mathematical term singularity in the Transcendence sense, but the Wikipedia writes: " ... The first use of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Toy Competition
I like the idea of connecting AR to toys. It implies the connection of game dynamics as well. Can we then connect the ideas for serious purpose? A competition...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Big Change At The CSTA
Earlier this evening Chris Stephenson, the founding executive director of the Computer Science Teachers Association, announced her resignation from the CSTA. (Looking...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Looking Back, Looking Ahead, and Thank You for the Honor of Serving CSTA
CSTA exists because of the work of a great many people and the support of computer science educators the world over who understand the importance of K-12 computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
R is Good for Business
Or, I think, how it is used. As with all tools. In Fastcolabs. " ... “When someone develops a new predictive model or a new visualization, they don’t just publish...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stories to Tell with Data
Tom Davenport in the HBR on how to tell stories with data. Good thoughts. " ... For almost a decade I have heard that good quantitative analysts can “tell a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bandwidth on the Battlefield
Looking for bandwidth on battlefields. In my own Pentagon days, simulating tank warfare, these issues were still still unheard of. Now you can readily see the key...
From Writing