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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Matchless Result
A famous algorithm, a new paper, a full correctness proof Vijay Vazirani is one of the world experts on algorithmic theory, and is especially known for his masterful...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Matchless Result
A famous algorithm, a new paper, a full correctness proof Vijay Vazirani is one of the world experts on algorithmic theory, and is especially known for his masterful...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Technology sets the bar higher
I am old enough that, as a kid, I did not have access to a calculator. My mother, a teacher, had an electronic calculator that you had to plug in the wall. She...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Industrial Internet Consortium Resources
Correspondent Shoumen Datta reports that the Industrial Internet Consortium Site has been made public. " ... Accelerating Innovation In Connected, Intelligent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kimberly Clark : More Specialists Needed
KC says more marketing specialists needed. In particular technological skill that can determine what is possible with new data." .... As companies turn to digital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Word on ipad
I have been using the iPad for a note taking and consulting tool for some time now. With Evernote as an organization tool. This has been a problem at times when...
From Apophenia
Parentology: The first parenting book I actually liked
As a researcher and parent, I quickly learned that I have no patience for parenting books. When I got pregnant, I started trying to read parenting books and I threw...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shelf Eye Tracking
In Progressive Grocer: Report on how people interact with grocery shelves. We always knew it was more than just about having the eye level shelf. Its about...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Names form Consortium to Improve the Integration of the Physical and Data Worlds
As reported in today’s New York Times, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) announced their formation today as an open membership group to further the development...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Hacks Huawei
Both Der Spiegel and the New York Times are reporting that the NSA has hacked Huawei pretty extensively, getting copies of the company's products' source code and...
From Schneier on Security
Password Hashing Competition
There's a private competition to identify new password hashing schemes. Submissions are due at the end of the month....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modernizing Manufacturing Economy
Via Lisa Kaczmarczyk. How can networks help modernize a manufacturing economy? A look at changing manufacturing economy in NE Ohio.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data for Better Design via Simulation
Intriguing view from IBM. I further like the idea of using data and then creating simulations, perhaps more commonly called emulations, based on that data gathered...
From Schneier on Security
Smarter People are More Trusting
Interesting research. Both vocabulary and question comprehension were positively correlated with generalized trust. Those with the highest vocab scores were 34...
From Schneier on Security
Giant Squid as an Omen
An omen of what? An increase in the number of giant squid being caught along the Sea of Japan coast is leading puzzled fishermen to fear their presence may be some...
From Wild WebMink
Parody Finally Made Legal In UK
Originally posted on Meshed Insights & Knowledge:Draft regulations have been published in Britain that will finally end the anomaly where quotation, parody, caricature...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science Tops the List of Degrees with Highest Return
On March 26, Derek Thompson of The Atlantic published an article titled Which College – and Which Major – Will Make You Richest? The article provides the full...
From Schneier on Security
Geolocating Twitter Users
Interesting research into figuring out where Twitter users are located, based on similar tweets from other users: While geotags are the most definitive location...
From Computational Complexity