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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 on Big Data
Following is interesting, just starting to ingest:Blueprints for Value:This is Part 1 in a 14 part series that is my attempt to present, in small easily consumable...
From Computational Complexity
Security Changes
A couple of policy changes recently, one that supposedly enhances privacy and another that could reduce it. Google has been implementing perfect forward secrecy...
From Schneier on Security
Acoustic Cryptanalysis
This is neat: Here, we describe a new acoustic cryptanalysis key extraction attack, applicable to GnuPG's current implementation of RSA. The attack can extract...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An Hour of Code–Now What?
By just about any of the usual measures (people involved, media attention, VIP endorsements) this year’s CS Education Week was a huge success. We’ve had a couple...
From updated sporadically at best
I'm Using Python Now
I have a confession. All these years I've been evangelizing strongly statically typed languages, I've been going home at night and using Python. Not all the time...
From My Biased Coin
Tracking down the Harvard Non-Bomber
This year, (allegedly) a Harvard student performed the modern equivalent of pulling a fire alarm in order to avoid a final exam, in this case by sending an e-mail...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wiley Big Data and Analytics Title Sampler
Brought to my attention, you can get this for the usual registration information, usually the first several chapters of each book, which can be helpful:Data Mining...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Young Scientists Invited to Apply for Second Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Preparations for the second Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) are in full swing, and applications from young researchers to attend the second Forum are being accepted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Nets Maturing
In ComputerWorld: Very broadly biologically inspired, yes. Often replacing analogous statistcal methods. We used them in a number of useful applications in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Does Screenplays
Storytelling has a thread in this blog, from an investigation for a startup. Now Amazon has put up a Beta for doing screenplays. It is called Storybuilder. Not...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Management is Broken
Unfortunately in an information minimizing slide show, but the topic is important. " ... Five Reasons Knowledge Management is Broken ... Knowledge management...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Perfect Data and Perfect Predictions
An obvious conclusion: you never get perfect answers. Analytics depends upon the correctness if the data in context, AND the power of the model being used. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Internet of Cars
We will see the internet of automobiles before we see the Internet of things. An overview in ReadwriteWeb. The future of transportation will take us to the net...
From Schneier on Security
Tor User Identified by FBI
Eldo Kim sent an e-mail bomb threat to Harvard so he could skip a final exam. (It's just a coincidence that I was on the Harvard campus that day.) Even though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Penetration
The global smartphone penetration continues to increase. Up to 60% by 2019 says this report.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use Cases for iBeacon and Estimote
In Wired: I continue my look at the use of in store location and communication. Something we thought a lot about in the innovation lab, but never had the technology...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH announces funding opportunities for the BRAIN Initiative
On April 2, 2013, President Obama launched the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative to revolutionize our understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Financial Uses for Quantum Computing
We were asked early on: What is the value for quantum computing? Here a look in particular at the financial industry. With mention of our contact in quantum"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Evolution of ETL
In Information Management: Extract, Transfer and Load (ETL) is a key process for the use of information to make it ready for analytics. It's changing to make...
From Computer Science Teachers Association