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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
Pinterest Being Linked Again
Quite a long time ago I did some experiments with Pinterest for a client. I have been asked to refresh this experiment. So posts in this blog with visual components...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Compliance on the Shelf
I have recently have been looking at applications of compliance. The application to shelf spaces has been a long term interest, see the thread links below. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Robot Locomotion
From IEEE Spectrum: A basic example of biomimicry. Are four legs required for precise and varied terrain robotic locomotion? Here a new example with quadropedic...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge
As you fill out your March Madness brackets, don’t miss out on your opportunity to win a billion dollars. Predicting a perfect bracket will win you $1,000,000,000...
From My Biased Coin
Leslie Lamport wins Turing Awards
In another sign that these Turing Award committees really know what they're doing, Leslie Lamport has won the Turing Award. There's a very nice writeup including...
From Computational Complexity
Leslie Lamport wins Turing Award!
Leslie Lamport wins Turing Award! See here for more details. Leslie did work on reliability of systems and security that (according to the article) is ACTUALLY...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gaps in Supply Chain Talent
This came up in a conversation recently. The area is perceived as not sexy enough. Not the case, we need to work on attaching newest technology to the problems...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does Teaching Programming Teach Grit?
Grit seems to be the latest educational buzz word these days. According to psychologist Angela Duckworth “grit is a better indicator of GPA and graduation rates...
From Putting People First
People first, technology second. It’s time for businesses to get personal
Todd McKinnon, CEO of Okta, explains in Re/Code how also in a business context a people-centric focus is increasingly essential. “In order to unlock the opportunity...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Beyond Hour of Code
That was the title I chose for a recent workshop that Vicky Sedgwick (@VisionsByVicky) and I presented at the local Computing Using Educators (CUE) Conference in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Brain Implants
In the WSJ: Good piece that overviews a long running concept. " ... How soon can we expect to see brain implants for perfect memory, enhanced vision, hypernormal...
From My Biased Coin
ICERM (Brown) Workshop on Stochastic Graph Models
I'll be commuting throughout the week to the ICERM Workshop on Stochastic Graph Models. ICERM is the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing the Next Big Idea
We did lots of work on portfolio analysis. There are usually no loss of interesting ideas to try to make money, with lots of advocates. But how do you choose?iew...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Economics as Science
In ZeroHedge: The danger of viewing economics as a science, dismal or otherwise. A somewhat rambling view but a reminder that economics can work at a micro level...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Open NYC Store
In Retailwire: Near the now iconic Apple store there. Surely also for prestige purposes. Also training? " ... Google will reportedly open its first U.S. store...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Everyday
This was brought up me to me again, P&G Everyday, emphasizing the Olympics. Had not looked at it for for some time. Nicely done, very pictorial. Contains coupons...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborative Innovation
Via colleague Louis Killeffer:" ... This week my conversation with Eliot Schreiber, Chief Operating Officer of Cloverleaf, becomes the fourteenth in a series of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Should you get a PhD?
Most people like to learn, some like it more than others… and they decide to focus their life on learning. They become scholars. I think it is a mistake to pursue...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2014
A shocking story from our friendly Leprechaun Neil L. is not a computer scientist—he is a Leprechaun. He has visited me every year since I started writing GLL,...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP