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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
Georgia Tech on Wearable
What are the cultural and social aspects of wearable computing? A Ga Tech researcher addresses. While I agree this is an issue, you could, and some did make the...
From Schneier on Security
Another QUANTUMINSERT Attack Example
Der Speigel is reporting that the GCHQ used QUANTUMINSERT to direct users to fake LinkedIn and Slashdot pages run by -- this code name is not in the article --reacted...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Google Code-in 2013
This went out to the CSTA Member mailing list tonight. Thought it was worth sharing. Beginning Monday, November 18th, 13-17 year old pre-university studentsgoogle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
2013 Business Intelligence Symposium
Register now to attend the 2013 Business Intelligence Symposium offered through the Center for Business Analytics in the Carl H. Lindner College of Business atThe...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Life is short: pick good ideas!
Some of us work hard to generate new ideas. All of us train on how to implement ideas. But our days look like this: I have 100 ideas. I write down 50 of them. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Millennials and Shopper Marketing
In Smartblogs: The rise of the omni-channel shopper in the millennial. The link below is also of interest and new to me." ... The Coca-Cola Company sponsors this...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptographic Blunders Revealed by Adobe's Password Leak
Adobe lost 150 million customer passwords. Even worse, they had a pretty dumb cryptographic hash system protecting those passwords.
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Drives Internet Traffic?
Mostly Netflix and Youtube. Not surprising, being heavily used video resources. While I am a litte surprised at this: " ... Meanwhile, peer-to-peer file sharing...
From Computational Complexity
Four answers to the Recip problem
In my last post I asked you to solve the following question which was from the Maryland Math Competition: The inequalities 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/6 = 1 and 1/2 + 1/3 +...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyc, the Enterprise and Wikipedia
Recent research had me take a look back on the Cyc project, which we had examined during our AI explorations. We talked to Lenat's Cycorp. The system promised...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multi Modal Drones
In Wired: As you might expect, the primary uses here are military. " ... This Drone Can Fly, Swim, Drive, and Hop Its Way Through a Mission .. " But it points...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Architecture
Thinking Future architecture. " ... Doing Enterprise Architecture is different from managing other type of IT or business project, as it includes from abstract...
From Schneier on Security
Bizarre Online Gambling Movie-Plot Threat
This article argues that online gambling is a strategic national threat because terrorists could use it to launder money. The Harper demonstration showed the technology...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Resources to Support a New Perspective
There has been a lot of excitement lately in the news about the importance of teaching students to code, but in the midst of all the excitement, many students,,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Hour of Code – CSEdWeek on steroids!
Code.org is putting CSEdWeek on steroids this year! My department, like many of yours, has traditionally run a programming contest and an open house in conjunction...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House OSTP “Big Data” event – webcast Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT
Check out the webcast of the White House OSTP “Big Data” event, November 12, 2013 beginning at 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT. Webcast here: http://live.science360.gov/1...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Apps Drive Smart Homes
In GigaOM: Expectes 21.5 million in US and Europe by 2017. The definition is still somewhat uncertain. We continue to experiment with the idea, after starting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Books
Vincent Granville posts a good list of more than 100 data science, analytics, big data and visualization books. With links to further commentary and access. Nicely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Pollution on the Rise
In ClickZ: Cleansing data. As we start to mine all the easy big data we are uncovering more difficult layers we will need to better understand. What are the...
From Computational Complexity