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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
November Analytics Magazine: Text Analytics
The Informs Outreach magazine this month has as its emphasis text analytics. Always interesting, business solution oriented, not heavily technical. I read every...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Making Magic With Software
My friend and fellow teacher Tom Indelicato and I are teaching a new course this year. We are calling to Explorations in Computer Science and it is patterned somewhat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Views from Our Top Shopper Scientist
Colleague and correspondent Herb Sorensen writes about the shopper from the view of a scientist. He helped us formulate some of the key concepts we used in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Taking Over
Are we making it too easy for machines to take over? In ReadwriteWeb. Do we see early symptoms when we listen for every smartphone ring? I have been reading...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Who plays nice? Who plays rough?
I have a confession to make. I am one of these people who can’t watch a TV show like Games of throne because there is too much evil. In fact, I generally cringe...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
In Praise Of Chalk Talks
Chalking up a terrific talk on bit compression Winsor McCay was a cartoonist and animator in the early part of the twentieth century, and authored the comic strip...
From Computational Complexity
A Theorist Goes to SOSP
Monday I attended the 24th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, the lead conference for computer systems research. Why would a nice theorist go to SOSP? Trying...
From Schneier on Security
Risk-Based Authentication
I like this idea of giving each individual login attempt a risk score, based on the characteristics of the attempt: The risk score estimates the risk associated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Social Science
A number of interesting items in the Edge about the implications of new models, and most notable to me the implications of Big Data, for social science. Social...
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Wix as Easy Internet Presence
After mentioning the startup Waze, recently acquired by Google, I was sent a note to take a look at the startup Wix. I was intrigued by their description of it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology and Dementia
Technology solutions for dementia care. Here from the CACM. An extensive view of technology current and future uses, and the barriers involved. I am peripherally...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
SIGCSE 2014 a Great Opportunity for Professional Development
I just got back from Atlanta where, while wearing one of my other hats, I helped to put together the program for the SIGCSE conference to be held March 5-8...
From Schneier on Security
Deception in Fruit Flies
The wings of the Goniurellia tridens fruit fly have images of an ant on them, to deceive predators: "When threatened, the fly flashes its wings to give the appearance...
From Putting People First
Experientia taking on the Nordic Built Challenge, Finland
Experientia team in final four, with community-minded concept “The fundamental idea of the entry – the ENGAGE community noticeboard concept – is worth special mention...
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Future of Cloud Computing
Recorded Future looks at the future of cloud computing. " ... As businesses continue to modernize, technological innovation accelerates. Cloud computing is a relatively...
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Convincing People Mobile Shopping is Safe
In Baseline Mag: Intrigued by the element of persuasion here. Not an argument about safety itself.
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Smartwatch for Corporate Productivity
Looking at the smartwatch format as improving corporate productivity. Seems a stretch beyond the mild improvement in convenience in carrying the things around....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Helpouts
Google now offers a method to seek and potentially sell online assistance via video, called Helpouts. Google takes a flat 20 percent transaction fee. More...
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