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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
The Power Of ACC
Euler’s back-door pass to Gauss sinks a bucket ACC stands for the Atlantic Coast Conference, which is an athletic organization that contains Georgia Tech and fourteen...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Power Of ACC
Euler’s back-door pass to Gauss sinks a bucket ACC stands for the Atlantic Coast Conference, which is an athletic organization that contains Georgia Tech and fourteen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Battlefield: Project Morpheus
I was struck by use of the term virtual battlefield. See Bloomberg article. This was precisely what we did now many years ago. With punch cards and mainframes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driving Data Reveals Routes
How driving data can reveal routes. This has been long known, and has been used in a number of contexts. A good example of analytical method based on sensor data...
From Computational Complexity
Spring Breaking at Dagstuhl
It's spring break at Georgia Tech and time to head to Germany for the Dagstuhl Seminar Computational Complexity of Discrete Problems. Lots of discussion on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
From Mess to Model Training
On April 17-18, the Center for Business Analytics in the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati will be offering a training course called “From...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming for the fun of it
Several years ago I was visiting a college and the professor I was meeting with told me he assigned a slot machine project to his students. That struck me a a very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and Mobile Marketing
Unilever Deploys Mobile Marketing PlatformUnilever has become the first company to activate Brandtone’s automated mobile marketing platform and engage directlyThe...
From My Biased Coin
Hashing Summer School in Copenhagen
Of the many, many interesting things happening in Copenhagen this summer (SEA, ICALP) we'd like to add one more: a Hashing Summer School at the University of Copenhagen...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Rep. Elizabeth Esty Gets CS Amendment Passed
Rep. Elizabeth Esty (CT-5) has successfully offered an important amendment to H.R. 4186 to expand a STEM teacher professional development grant under the National...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson as a Cognitive Technology
Was told that IBM has just refreshed their Watson site. Now positioning it as a cognitive technology. No longer called AI or Expert Systems, which was the common...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cloud Robotics at SXSW
Earlier this month, the SXSW interactive conference held a session on Cloud Robotics: Instant Scalability and Capability. The panel was highlighted in the Wall...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uncertainty Traps
In Knowledge@Wharton: Had not heard the term before, but knowing what you don't know is always a useful thing. And leads to statements like: "If we had this...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Leslie Lamport Recognized With 2013 A.M. Turing Award
Leslie Lamport, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, has been named as the recipient of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award. The recognition is for his work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Phone Detecting People and Objects
In Engadget: Advanced usability via sensory detection. " ... Samsung's Ultrasonic Cover: a specialized case that uses sound waves to detect people or objects (in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mckinsey Apps for Android Now
I see that McKinsey has set up an App for access to its publications. Here for the Android. They often have interesting documents, which I have pointed to here...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Cloud and Mobility Forum and Workshop on March 25-27, 2014
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a free NIST Cloud and Mobility Forum and Workshop on March 25-27...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Workshop on March 24, 2014
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a federal technology agency, will host a free Cloud Computing Forensic Science Workshop on Monday, March...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USTR Invites Public Comments on New Public Interest Trade Advisory Committee
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) is accepting public comments on the creation of a new Public Interest Trade Advisory Committee, as well as nominations...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog