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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
Simulating for Success
In Fortune: My early work with analytics was building simulations systems at the Pentagon. This article describes well how this is done in Defense. And its improved...
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Visualizing Cell Phone Signals
Had always wondered what the RF space would look like. Here an attempt at visualizing how complex the coverage of RF looks like today. Some of the commenters...
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Be Careful With People Anaytics
HR analytics have been much in the news and in my investigations of late. Here some cautionary notes. What parts of HR can be constructed as a science? It...
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Wireless Charging in RF
New developments in wireless charging. Most methods today use inductive technologies these use radio frequency. I wonder about RF interference here. We examined...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House and National Science Foundation Proclaim Computer Science is for Everyone!
As part of Computer Science Education Week, Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation at The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Facebook creating new Research Lab in Artificial Intelligence
It was announced on December 9, 2013 that Yann LeCun from NYU will be heading a new research lab at Facebook focused on Artificial Intelligence. LeCun posted on...
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Big Data Requires Small Steps
In E-Commerce Times: A reasonable piece. The idea requires both handling the data and the application of the analytics that result. Analytics requires you to...
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Ontology and Big Data
An interesting case of combining Ontologies and big data, in a slide show. Using health data as an example. Ontologies are shared vocabularies as they relate to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why I Write Code
I’ve been programming for about 40 years now. That’s a long time in Internet time. Honestly in some ways it is more fun now then ever and it started off as funDecember...
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Wi-Fi Enabled Services in Retail
Interesting post in the Cisco Blog. Consider the potential for added services in retail contexts. " ... That situation is changing through the growing availability...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The 25 Year Commitment to Making a Computer Scientist
CSEdWeek continues to roll along with events in schools, districts, community centers, and businesses and computer science educators continue to play a critical...
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TIBCO Spotfire for Developers
Brought to my attention. TIBCO Spotfire for Developers by Manuel XavierLooks to be of interest, have yet to see any book on Spotfire, which we used for Business...
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Qualcomm Gimbal for Location Detection
More on another ability to detect, track and engage people in physical retail settings. Qualcomm's Gimbal. With similarities to Apple's iBeacon. Another quickly...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Names Dr. Philip E. Bourne First Associate Director for Data Science
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the formal appointment of Dr. Philip E. Bourne as the First Associate Director for Data Science at the Institutes...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Spying on Online Gaming Worlds
The NSA is spying on chats in World of Warcraft and other games. There's lots of information -- and a good source document. While it's fun to joke about the NSA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
R Extracting Data from Google Analytics
Specifically using R. A good case study for using R as well." ... How to extract custom data from Google AnalyticsYou can use a programming language like R to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
That Is Not My Name
My first major in college was Sociology. I did finish it along with a second major in Systems Analysis (few CS majors existed back in the dark ages) and to some...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Negative Impossibility Theorem
A positive result on clustering Ravi Kannan is a long-time friend, a brilliant theorist, and a wonderful speaker. He has won numerous awards, including the Fulkerson...
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