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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Too Much Forgiveness
I’m teaching a little web development to my freshmen this week. Not a lot – it’s not a web development course – just enough to give them some idea of what is behind...
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Run Your Research Demo Site on the Cloud
Last week, Travis Hance and I spent hours wading through the many blog posts of the internet to figure out how to set up a simple conference management site running...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Topic Modeling in Machine Learning
I see that David Blei has been given the ACM-InfoSys award. In reading about his work in textual analysis I saw this was related to work we had done in 'content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On New TV Experiences and Technology
In AdAge; I am late to the use of smart HD TVs. Started an experimental look at how shoppers could experience TV programming, both broadcast and on demand, and...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Wait Wait… Don’t Fool Me!
It’s that time of year again Altered from NPR source. Faadosly Polir is back in contact with us. We have encountered him before, but this time he has company. He...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Wait Wait… Don’t Fool Me!
It’s that time of year again Altered from NPR source. Faadosly Polir is back in contact with us. We have encountered him before, but this time he has company. He...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talent Analytics
Brought to my attention. Talent Analytics. Via Mike Kennedy. " ... Our unique dataset measures innate employee characteristics tied to business performance....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Commerce Anywhere Models
In Retailwire: Good overview of the topic. It is the big retailers that are starting to understand and leverage this." ... The classic multi-channel retail business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Deep Neighborhood Data
In Progressive Grocer: what we often discovered, data is not complete enough to effectively leverage. Its not only about siting, as covered here. Answer is"...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Launches New Biological Technologies Office
Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the launch of a new office that will merge biology, engineering, and computer science to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Top 10 Gigabit Apps
This is a guest post by Will Barkis, PhD. Will is a Gigabit Evangelist and, until recently, led Mozilla’s gigabit innovation efforts for the past two years as Project...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson and Brain Cancer Assistance
In IEEE Spectrum: Watson: takes on the genetics of brain cancer. The use of an 'AI' as an assistant is a good model, which we used often for related models. The...
From Schneier on Security
Seventh Movie-Plot Threat Contest
As you might expect, this year's contest has the NSA as the villain: The NSA has won, but how did it do it? How did it use its ability to conduct ubiquitous surveillance...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking about Vo-Tech Programming & Web Development Curriculum
I get questions. By email, twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and more. Seems like they come just about everyway. And I love it. Recently I got a question about vo-tech...
From Computational Complexity
I am Bill Gasarch
I have a confession to make. Remember back in 2007 when I retired from the blog for about a year. I didn't actually retire at all but instead took the blog innew...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Senator Gillibrand Proposes New Legislation for CS
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced today her education agenda to encourage more youths, especially women, to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization Resources
A library site describing and linking to books, papers and white papers of data visualization expert Stephen Few.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Research: Hand Written Notes Improve Recall
Interesting take in the Chronical for Higher Education. " ... Distractions posed by laptops in the classroom have been a common concern, but new research suggests...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Retail Shopping vs Shelf Research
Will we eventually be using virtual reality to shop? Another area of examination in the innovation center. The recent emergence of Oculus and Google Glass brings...
From Schneier on Security