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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Webinar on Solicitations
On Monday, January 27, 2014, the Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AcuPoll for Tracking Ideas and Decisions
Spoke last week to Jeff Goldstein of AcuPoll. We had used some of their in-conference technologies to understand how people decide. The also do online polling...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Anti-Social Networks
Applications of social networks to arbitrary graphs Tim Roughgarden is a faculty member at Stanford, with interests in modern algorithms—my term. So his research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Following Through
I rarely read beginning of the year top ten or efficiency hints, but this is deserves a look. I am in the midst of several decision processes that need people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Anatomist of Crimes, Decisions
In the Penn Gazette. About an anatomist of crimes. Could we do something similar when we look at decisions? After Action Reviews are one approach we tested, but...
From Schneier on Security
Questioning the Efficacy of NSA's Bulk-Collection Programs
Two reports have recently been published questioning the efficacy of the NSA's bulk-collection programs. The first one is from the left-leaning New American Foundation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Home Telepresence Robotics
In IEEE Spectrum. I recall seeing these proposed for conferences, but never saw one in operation. We examined something similar for warehouse inventory. Appears...
From Schneier on Security
LOUDAUTO: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: LOUDAUTO (TS//SI//REL TO USA,FVEY) Audio-based RF retro-reflector. Provides...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter and other Social Connections
I actively use Twitter and Google+. On Twitter I am @FranzD. Have been on Twitter since almost its conception. Selectively, some of the posts in this blog...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Aligning Our Program with the CSTA Standards
Increasing the availability of Computer Science offerings for all students, especially those who are members of underrepresented groups, is going to require anCSTA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Playing the Varied Games of Life
I had heard of the startup Knack. The HBR discusses the process of evaluating the game of life. And evaluate how you play this game. Is this useful mostly for...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are C++ and Java declining?
In a recent Dr. Dobb’s article, Binstock announced the decline of Java and C++: By all measures, C++ use declined last year, demonstrating that C++11 was not enough...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality for Wearable Computing
Integrate your contexts, both on you and around you. I like the idea of having an all over aumentation as required. This blog covers related topics. ViaMetaio...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Industrial Things
Have had a number of interesting communications from academics working the industrial edge recently. Here on the Industrial net of things. Via GE, includes a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Using The Technology We Preach
Habits die hard. I printed out some end of year surveys for my students to fill out about me (as teacher) and the courses they were finishing last week. Because...
From Schneier on Security
Adware Vendors Buy and Abuse Chrome Extensions
This is not a good development: To make matters worse, ownership of a Chrome extension can be transferred to another party, and users are never informed when an...
From Putting People First
How should we analyse our lives?
Alex “Sandy” Pentland, a professor of computational social sciences at MIT Media Lab and others like him are now convinced that the great academic divide between...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Day
I am planning to attend:The Center for Business Analytics in the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati is pleased to announceDataWednesday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
View of Gamification Around the World
A survey from the gamification summit. Some interesting, but not detailed examples. I would not have expected the examples to be very different by region. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle