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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 Putting People First
Will your clothing spy on you?
In his lecture “The Ethicist’s and the Lawyer’s New Clothes: The Law and Ethics of Smart Clothes,” I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, warns...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Seeking Nominations for New Council Members
The CCC is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. To do...
From Computational Complexity
When is a paper public? When is anything public?
A while back I had a paper in an intermediary stage. The version posted to my Ramsey Theory Course Website was not final. Is the paper public? I didn't think about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
My Updated One Page Bio
I have updated my one page bio, it continues after the paragraphs below. Feel free to contact me about consulting, strategic and tactical. Franz A. DillFranz Dill...
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of Willow Garage
A robotics research center we followed for some time has apparently ended operation, with employees going on to a number of startups. More detail in Bloomberg....
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Growth of Online Grocery
In the newly discovered Retail Remedy Blog. Where they write: " ... We offer support and advice to all types of retailers from £bn+ multi nationals to high growth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best and Brightest and Wall Street
On the best and brightest being attracted to Wall Street, or not. Have followed the repeating Wall Street 'rocket scientist' phenomenon for years and Its mostly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AutoDesk and 3D Printing
Used to commonly work with Autodesk. They were the first company to provide PC based drawing management. More mentions in this blog about Autodesk. Later weIn...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Evil Genius
Do We Live In A Simulation? René Descartes is famous for countless things in mathematics—Cartesian products, Cartesian coordinates, Descartes’ rule of signs, the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarms of Intelligent Cooperative Drones
Swarms of drones as emergency responders. See some of my previous writings about swarms. How do we install cooperative intelligence? How is cooperative intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SNCR Millennial Report Abstracts
SNCR Supported Study .... (Society of New Consumer Research)Millennials are leading the social commerce movement. They are more likely than any other group toKey...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid vs. Owlfish
This video is pretty fantastic: The narrator does a great job at explaining what's going on here, blow by gross blow, but here are the highlights: Black-eyed...
From Schneier on Security
CROSSBEAM: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: CROSSBEAM (TS//SI//REL) CROSSBEAM is a GSM module that mates a modified commercial...
From Schneier on Security
Co3 Systems at the RSA Conference
Co3 Systems is going to be at the RSA Conference. We don't have our own booth on the show floor, but there are four ways you can find us. Monday, we're at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hospitality Internet of Everything
I like this take on the hospitality industry. And its relationship to Big Data. The industry is an example where it makes much sense to utilize real time data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
History of Rational Economic Forecasting
In the Harvard Business Review Blogs: May require registration. Good thoughts. When I taught forecasting it was always about understanding how the forecast was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop Small Thinking about Big Data
A good, free 15 page pamphlet about Big Data. Co Sponsored by Teradata. Looks to be a set of objective observations about the opportunities and cautions. Integration...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The myth of the scientist as a disinterested individual
We like to have an idealized view of the scientist. He or she is someone who chose against a high-paying career to pursue the ideals of science and academia. Unlike...
From Schneier on Security
Building an Online Lie Detector
There's an interesting project to detect false rumors on the Internet. The EU-funded project aims to classify online rumours into four types: speculation -- such...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog