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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
Telemedicine Justifying Better Broadband
In GigaOM: Quite likely. You would imagine improved connections would decrease costs at least. But diminish personalization. It will also require better intelligence...
From Computational Complexity
(IEEE) Conference on Computational Complexity
The 29th IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity will be held in Vancouver June 11-13. Student travel award deadline is TOMORROW Monday May 5th, early registration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablet Use in Schools
Have been involved in several projects that looked at how tablets could be effectively used in the enterprise. This piece covers and links to studies about its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transcendence Risks All Around
Stephen Hawking talks transcendence, the movie and AI laden concept of technological similarity. Just how worried should we be? " ... So, facing possible futures...
From Putting People First
New research on the use of tablets in schools
NAACE, a UK association of educators, technologists and policy makers who share a vision for the role of technology in advancing education, has published a number...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Does Program Size Matter?
A problem about this forgotten complexity measure Erik Winfree is one of the leaders in DNA computation, especially the theory of self-assembly using DNA. He won...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grand Challenges for Big Data
A group I was just introduced to: IBM Fellows. Full list and backgrounds. They tackle the grand challenges of Big Data. See the Slidecast. An interview with...
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Nestle Supply Chain Forecasting
Good, non technical view of how Nestle uses the SAS forecasting supply chain forecasting system. With a number of operational considerations for retail.
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Air Force Examines Glass
Its a natural application, its hands-free. The design will have to be altered to make it more rugged and compatible to extreme environments. That has already...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laboratory Analysis
Had the chance to be at one of these meetings a few years ago. Increasing emphasis is on what you can do with the data once you get it. But you still have get...
From My Biased Coin
Reviewing Question: What's Important
Nick Feamster on Google+ recently shared (and gave me permission to blog about) the following review comment:This review comment is super enlightening:"I think...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Banning Insider Trading
Comparing the regulation to prohibition. It's certainly a gut level reaction to agree with the regulation. Then look too at how it is similar to the observation...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How Flying Squid Fly
Someone has finally proven how: How do these squid go from swimming to flying? Four phases of flight are described in the research: launching, jetting, gliding...
From Geeking with Greg
More quick links
More of what has caught my attention lately: Excellent history of Google's love-hate relationship with management (hint: it's mostly hate) ([1]) Excellent BBC[1]...
From Schneier on Security
Unusual Electronic Voting Machine Threat Model
Rats have destroyed dozens of electronic voting machines by eating the cables. It would have been a better story if the rats had zeroed out the machines after the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kimberly Clark Tracks Coupons Directly
Kimberly-Clark Gets Serious With Its Digital-Coupon TrackingMarketer Building Its Own Deal Database and CRM ProgramsPackaged-goods marketers have been shifting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
PCAST Report on Big Data and Privacy Released
In January, President Obama asked for a comprehensive review of policy issues on big data and privacy during his speech on signals intelligence. As a part of the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
BASIC, Computing, and What Have We Lost?
Yesterday, May 1, 2014 was the fiftieth anniversary of the BASIC programming language. Articles about this are abundant on the Internet and rightly so. I link to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Zuckerberg Interview on VR
In Wired: In particular the mention of virtual reality. Thought leaders can drive fringe technologies very quickly to millions of people. Its hard to move them...
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