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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 CERIAS Blog
A Special Opportunity to Support CERIAS
Purdue University is a land-grant university, founded in 1869. As a land-grant university, our focus has always been on service to the public good — providing excellent...
From CERIAS Blog
A Special Opportunity to Support CERIAS
Purdue University is a land-grant university, founded in 1869. As a land-grant university, our focus has always been on service to the public good — providing excellent...
From CERIAS Blog
A Special Opportunity to Support CERIAS
Purdue University is a land-grant university, founded in 1869. As a land-grant university, our focus has always been on service to the public good — providing excellent...
From CERIAS Blog
A Special Opportunity to Support CERIAS
Purdue University is a land-grant university, founded in 1869. As a land-grant university, our focus has always been on service to the public good — providing excellent...
From Computational Complexity
Should you reveal a P = NP algorithm?
A reader asks What would you do if you could prove that P=NP with a time-complexity of n2 or better... moreover, would you publish it? There are all theseheartbleed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experfy Big Data Consulting
Received a note from Harvard Innovation Lab. Regarding Experfy, which was new to me. Interesting, taking a closer look.Big Data Consulting Marketplace in Harvard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intro to Unstructured Data
Good short piece on the increasingly important topic, by Radhika Subramanian. The article also points to a free eBook on the topic. Have not looked at that yet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytic Methods and Massive Data
What are the limitations of analytic methods against increasingly massive amounts of data? A Linkedin Discussion of interest.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The More Variables, the Better?
Ideas from algebraic geometry and arithmetic complexity Hyman Bass is a professor of both mathematics and mathematics education at the University of Michigan, after...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The More Variables, the Better?
Ideas from algebraic geometry and arithmetic complexity Hyman Bass is a professor of both mathematics and mathematics education at the University of Michigan, after...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Open Source Coq Wins ACM Software System Award
ACM today selected open source Coq as the recipient of the ACM Software System Award for its influential and critical role as a primary programming and certification...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award Winners – Robert D. Blumofe and Charles E. Leiserson
The Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award honors specific theoretical accomplishments that significantly affect the practice of computing. Paris Kanellakis...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award Winner – Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb
The Grace Murray Hopper Award recognizes the outstanding young computer professional of the year. Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper was a computer pioneer who...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award – Susan H. Rodger
The Karlstrom Award recognizes educators who advanced new teaching methodologies; effected new curriculum development in Computer Science and Engineering; or contributed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HR Strategy. Hiring Specialties or Growing Them?
In CWorld. Self serving yes, but an alternate strategy for lack of specific IT skills. Instead of hiring college trained people, probably younger people. Hire...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
MIT’s Alex Pentland on Big Data in The New York Times
In an article published on The New York Times’ website yesterday, the newspaper’s technology writer Steve Lohr discusses Alex Pentland’s new book, “Social Physics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Metadata Introduction
Been examining the state of metadata, here is a book with good background, if not completely up to date. Mostly document oriented. A good example where on line...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Police Robotics
In Time: With video. An old idea, but here apparently a commercial available system. I always ask, how are these different from a remote movable camera? How...
From Schneier on Security
Book Title
I previously posted that I am writing a book on security and power. Here are some title suggestions: Permanent Record: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and...
From The Eponymous Pickle