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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
IBM Speed Record for Big Data
Of Interest: Press release, more implications at the link:" ... IBM today announced that it has achieved a new technological advancement that will help improve...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid TED Talk
Interesting. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
MONKEYCALENDAR: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: MONKEYCALENDAR (TS//SI//REL) MONKEYCALENDAR is a software implant for GSMhere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Data on Online Education
In GigaOM: " .... Collecting student data digitally isn’t solely something for massive open online courses. Even university professors and their students can benefit...
From Schneier on Security
My Talk on the NSA
Earlier this month, I gave a talk about the NSA at MIT. The video is available. ETA: The video doesn't display on some Firefox browsers. If you have trouble,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Winning with Olympics Social Media Strategy
A look at how P&G succeeded in using social media at the Sochi Olympics. In USA Today. Mostly through preparing the field for competition: " ... . P&G is leaps...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Searching for Code Snippets–Good or Bad for Students?
This morning Rob Miles posted a link (C# Code Snippets on Demand) to a new site from Microsoft Research called Bing Code Search: C# code snippets on-demand. basically...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Submissions – 8th Extreme Scaling Workshop: The Intersection of Big Data and Large-Scale Computing
The National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Blue Waters and eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) projects are hosting the 8th Extreme...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel as Operating System for Big Data
Intel wants to be the operating system for Big Data. Interesting thought. They had better understand the analytics of it. It is not just about the hardware. "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loyalty Optimization with Bayesian Networks
Another interesting example of the use of Bayesian networks for data mining. via Stefan Conrady of Bayesia. Nice understandable draft tutorial. " ... Identifying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Head Mounted Displays in Works
In CWorld: Based on supplier comments, this seems to be in the works. Is the future now wearables and head mounted, augmented reality style displays? And notably...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Getting good performance in Go by rewriting parts in C?
Go is a new programming language invented by Google engineers. Apparently, it came about because they were tired to wait for their C++ code to compile. To run Go...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IT Hiring Slowing
In ComputerWorld: By my own unscientific view as well, talking to several big hiring companies. Caused by continuing uncertainty about the economy, and thus unwillingness...
From Putting People First
anthropology + design: nicolas nova
Rachel Carmen Ceasar (@rceasara) is a doctoral candidate in the Joint Medical Anthropology Program at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco (California, USA). She writes...
From Schneier on Security
The Insecurity of Secret IT Systems
We now know a lot about the security of the Rapiscan 522 B x-ray system used to scan carry-on baggage in airports worldwide. Billy Rios, director of threat intelligence...
From Putting People First
An ethnography of the Brixton Pound
Mario Campana (@mariocampana), a PhD student at City University London’s Cass Business School, researches the growing trend of local currencies – of which there...
From Putting People First
Interview with man at the heart of Facebook ethnography kerfuffle
Tricia Wang interviewed Daniel Miller, the anthropologist at the heart of the Facebook ethnography kerfuffle, and published the transcript on EthnographyMatters...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Seeing Atoms
How can we possibly see atoms? John Sidles is a medical researcher and a quantum systems engineer. His major focus is on quantum spin microscopy for regenerative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning in Neural Nets
General outline and technical detailed article in the WP about deep learning in neural nets. And further about deep learning in general: " ... Deep learningDeep...
From The Eponymous Pickle