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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
Emergence of Embed-able Tech
CNN Tech on the emergence of embed-able technology. With some good current examples. Probably not as adaptable as wearable, but more convenient. So when do we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Home Hub with Sensors
In GigaOM: Continuing to look for intelligent hubs, with sensors that are adaptive to multiple conditions. Here the ALYT: " ... If the current generation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurogaming
What can we learn from neurogaming? The ultimate user interface. Wearability taken to its limit. Trends, companies and people to be following.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence to Address Data Discovery
In CWorld: Divining Data.Just a few months ago I would not have directly connected Business Intelligence (BI) with what is usually called Data Discovery. The later...
From Putting People First
Maybe the Voice of the Customer isn’t
Criticizing Voice of the Customer (VOC) programs is like speaking out against motherhood and apple pie, writes marketing consultant Ron Shevlin. Yet, he says, there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technical iBeacon Basics
I found it interesting to see this relatively short O'Reilly piece on the basics of the iBeacon Apple location proximity sensor for retail. Not very technical,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Bronze Giant Squid Sculpture
A little too big for my house....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Probabilities and the C++ standard
The new C++ standard introduced hash functions and hash tables in the language (as “unordered maps”). As every good programmer should know, hash tables only work...
From Schneier on Security
More on Heartbleed
This is an update to my earlier post. Cloudflare is reporting that its very difficult, if not practically impossible, to steal SSL private keys with this attack...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Prediction for Wearables Market
In CWorld: And much more detail at the link. " .... Wearable computers "took a huge step forward" in the last year and shipments of smartwatches and relatedThe...
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Price of Being First in New Technology
In Cisco Blog: Very good piece. There is always a price, and perhaps the largest is the assumption that you will assume that you will always retain that position...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security Cameras Creating Big Data
In the 90s in Europe we worked with a large retailer for a test of this idea. Re purposing security cameras to understand in store customer movement. Will the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Nominations for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
April 15 is the deadline for nominations of K-6 teachers, including computer science teachers, for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Store of the Future
In RIS News: " ... One of the largest retailers, Kroger, has introduced its new Retail Site Intelligence (RSI) enterprise IT architecture. The architecture helps...
From Schneier on Security
Police Disabling Their own Voice Recorders
This is not a surprise: The Los Angeles Police Commission is investigating how half of the recording antennas in the Southeast Division went missing, seemingly...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS Team Testifies on California Bill 1764
Yesterday the California Assembly Committee on Education unanimously passed Bill 1764. This bill would encourage districts to expand computer science courses in...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Multiple-Credit Tests
Can chess statistics help design multiple-choice exams? UT Dallas source Bruce Pandolfini is one of very few living people who have been played by an Oscar-winning...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Multiple-Credit Tests
Can chess statistics help design multiple-choice exams? UT Dallas source Bruce Pandolfini is one of very few living people who have been played by an Oscar-winning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Customer Loyalty Using Bayesian Networks
In the Latest Bayesia Newsletter. For optimization of Loyalty. An approach I had not seen in this area before. " ... This tutorial illustrates an innovative...
From The Eponymous Pickle