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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
Deep Learning Innovation from Mobile Sensors
Out of Research at Purdue: Interative contextual learning and reasoning is a powerful concept that will radically change how we use computing. It will bring"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Culture and Business Sphere Focus
In Ars Technica: The idea of a 'data culture' is something that Microsoft is promoting heavily. " ... Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was in San Francisco today to...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Texas SBOE Requires Districts to Offer Two Computer Science Courses
This blog piece is reposted with permission from the TCEA Advocacy Network Blog. Please see http://tceaadvocacy.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/texas-sboe-requires-districts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Mind Maps to Support Exit Interviews
We suggested this, but it was never widely utilized. In Biggerplate. A good case study of the idea. The question that always came up: Does the additional complexity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Value of Social Data: Gnip Acquisition
In AdAge: " In Gnip Buy, Twitter Grabs Control of Key Data Middleman ...The Acquisition is Yet Another Indicator of the Value Corporations and Investors See in...
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P&G Singapore Innovation Center
More on P&G's Singapore innovation center. Including lots of images and descriptions of what goes on there. Nicely done piece from P&G itself. " ... Get a First...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Loom, Robots, Innovation and Jobs
In the WaPo: The Loom and Innovation. Anyone who has followed the history of computing knows the connection between the mechanical loom and computing in general...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Digitizing Stores
In Retailing Today. On how Kroger is digitizing retail. Retail is the ideal industry to make this happen. It operates an internet of things that closely integrate...
From Schneier on Security
Schneier Speaking Schedule: April–May
Here's my upcoming speaking schedule for April and May: Stanford Law School on April 15. Brown University in Providence, RI -- two times -- on April 24. The Global...
From Schneier on Security
Schneier Talks and Interviews
Here are three articles about me from the last month. Also these three A/V links....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Languages Are Horrible
A bunch of my students in my honors programming class made the same error yesterday. Remarkably today Bertrand Meyer had a post about the very same error in the...
From Schneier on Security
Auditing TrueCrypt
Recently, Matthew Green has been leading an independent project to audit TrueCrypt. Phase I, a source code audit by iSEC Partners, is complete. Next up is Phase...
From Writing
Got fast download but slow upload speeds? Here's a fix.
If you've found that your download speed is great, but your upload speed is abysmal, I've got a possible solution for you. I struggled with this issue for a while...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Dream Tunnel Sequence from a Research Colleague
A research colleague is published! I will start it soon ...[Mark] " Lacy’s debut novel The Dreamtunnel Sequence is action-packed … Solid writing and a twisting...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science: ideals vs. reality
Fernando Pérez gave a talk at Pycon 2014 with a brilliant slide: The ideals reality of science: The pursuit of verifiable answers highly cited papers for your c...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Contact Lens Camera
A fairly detailed analysis of a patent application by Google that embeds cameras in the human eye. I recall seeing a number of proposals like this a decade plus...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Contributes To Big Data Review
As part of the Administration’s review of big data, privacy and the economy, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a Request for Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Methods Taking place of Cookies
In Adage: How Mobile-Tech Players Are Crumbling the Cookie. Microsoft, Google, Apple Look to Track Consumers on Phones, Devices .... "
From Michael Nielsen
How the backpropagation algorithm works
Chapter 2 of my free online book about “Neural Networks and Deep Learning” is now available. The chapter is an in-depth explanation of the backpropagation algorithm...
From The Eponymous Pickle