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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
Dan Geer on Heartbleed and Software Monocultures
Good essay: To repeat, Heartbleed is a common mode failure. We would not know about it were it not open source (Good). That it is open source has been shown to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Experience in Retail
In Retailwire: Who owns the customer experience in retail? " ... Should the emerging CXO role — chief customer experiencer — own the customer experience in retail...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone 8.1 Project my Screen app now available
last week I installed the new Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers on my Nokia phone. There were some pretty cool features there with Cortana (the Siri for Windowsdownload...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Pixels Example for Theater Engagement
Daria Gaioshko of the Odessa, Ukraine company Augmented Pixels, sends along this new example of a promotional App for user engagement at a cinema. I am now testing...
From Computational Complexity
Changing the ORDER you teach things in might help A LOT
I am teaching the undergrad jr/sr course Elementary Theory of Computation which is Reg Langs, Context free Langs, Computability theory, P and NP. Over the last...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Criminal Activity with Phone Data
Interesting example in Technology Review. We used related approaches to detect patterns of innovative communications. " ... Law enforcement agencies are turning...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NSF Requests Recommendations for Scientific and Technical Advisory Committees
The National Science Foundation (NSF) requests recommendations for membership on its scientific and technical federal advisory committees. Self-recommendations...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Continuing the Building of a More Inclusive Computing Environment for Science and Engineering
The National Science Foundation has issued a new program solicitation for High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Continuing the Building of a More Inclusive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Dropbox for the Internet of Things.
In Technology Review: Simple idea, easy to play with. " ... With the advent of the Internet of things, potentially billions of devices will report data about...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 April 2014
I may be getting some spring fever. Next week is our school’s April vacation but mild days and a sunny sky have me wishing I had a bit more time to enjoy the day...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baseball Scheduling
Scheduling complex sports events, with many restrictions and preferences, is a known difficult problem to automate. New work at Johns Hopkins addresses the problem...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Data Analytics Handbook
Looked at in Machine Learning Mastery. " ... What is the difference between a Data Analyst and a Data Scientist and what type of work do they do all day?TheseThe...
From Schneier on Security
Info on Russian Bulk Surveillance
Good information: Russian law gives Russia’s security service, the FSB, the authority to use SORM (“System for Operative Investigative Activities”) to collect,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulated Design in Fashion
In DW: Reminds me of similar methods, in completely different domains, like packaging design, which we experimented with for years. " .. .Soft wear: computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Different Goals for Information Visualizaton
Just brought to my attention. Excellent paper. Different goals and different looks for information visualization and statistical graphics. By Andrew Gelman...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Luxottica to Make Google Frames
From a local company many of us have worked with." ... Google is hoping to make its Internet-connected eyewear more stylish as part of a partnership with the parent...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
In Praise Of P=NP Proofs
Why they can be important Advertising source Joe Bloggs is not a computer scientist, at least not one that we know. As noted by Wikipedia, Joe Bloggs is a “placeholder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Robotics and AI
What are the implications for improving AI? In an internet of things and people ... with things getting more intelligent and being able to take the initiative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Mess in Communications Among an Internet of Things
In CWorld: Of interest, in particular standards are key to making this approach work. Lack of interoperability, in particular in home automation, are key problems...
From The Eponymous Pickle