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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
10 Companies Who Control What You Buy
From Visual.ly: " .... According to this chart via Reddit, called "The Illusion of Choice," these corporations create a chain that begins at one of 10 superClick...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Wins Book Scanning Case
In GigaOM: A long term suit against Google scanning and storing books. Have followed this for a long time. Finally decided in Google's favor, apparently using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Time of Day Shopping
In PopAI: An area that we explored in our laboratory stores, but not in this predictive detail: " ... Dr Scott G. Dacko, an associate professor in marketing and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Data to Knowledge to Action: White House Announces Big Data Partnerships
On November 12, 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) program held an event...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Essentials of Business Analytics Book
A number of my colleagues at the University of Cincinnati have just come out with a new book on the delivery of business analytics entitled: Essentials of Business...
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IBM Announces Watson on Internet
In the NYT: Delivered via the Internet. Now we await the interface needed for intelligent connections. " ... On Thursday IBM will announce that Watson, the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Doing Code Right The Second Time
Last week I wrote a program. I wrote about it on this blog (Making Magic With Software) but only about what was visible to the user. This week I decided to show...
From Computational Complexity
Local Reductions
With the STOC deadline passing on Monday, now is a good time to look at the arXiv to see what has been posted since then. Hamid Jahanjou, Eric Miles and Emanuele...
From Schneier on Security
A Fraying of the Public/Private Surveillance Partnership
The public/private surveillance partnership between the NSA and corporate data collectors is starting to fray. The reason is sunlight. The publicity resulting from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Learning Machines
New kinds of machine learning have been an emphasis of DARPA. In Wired, " ... The Pentagon’s blue-sky research agency is readying a nearly four-year projectWhen...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Online Professional Learning Communities for CS Teachers
Last week, the NSF brought together leaders of the CS10K effort to discuss potential online supports for teachers and students in computer science. Though the concept...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling Nodes of New Technologies
If you have followed this space for a long time, you know I cover many technologies and their implications. Most of which I started looking at in the enterprise...
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Shapeshifting Touch Display
An example of virtual interaction. " ... The Tangible Media Group at MIT's Media Lab has unveiled a futuristic display made of atoms, not pixels. We live in an...
From Schneier on Security
Microsoft Retiring SHA-1 in 2016
I think this is a good move on Microsoft's part: Microsoft is recommending that customers and CA's stop using SHA-1 for cryptographic applications, including use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart v Amazon
The last battle? In Knowledge@Wharton. For dominance in retail. " ... In the retail realm, it’s a clash of the titans: Walmart, the world’s largest retailer,But...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
One Way to Study for Exams
For both my classes, I put together a study guide that included some general tips on studying as well as what topics to focus on. Since the general advice works...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blending Data is Good
It has been some time since I looked at the vendor Pentaho. Examined it for use in the enterprise. I noticed that they have something called the data blend of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AmStatNews highlights CCC as Influential to the Research Community!
A post this week in AmStatNews, the membership magazine of the American Statistical Association, is a ringing endorsement of CCC’s activities: “On the topic of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Breaking New Ground: Robot Rings NASDAQ Closing Bell
On Tuesday, November 12, 2013, the first non-human rang the closing bell on the NASDAQ stock market. A robotic arm was selected to ring the bell to mark the launch...
From The Eponymous Pickle