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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 Schneier on Security
SecureDrop
SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower support system, originally written by Aaron Swartz and now run by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The first instance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Economics of Advanced Analytics
Shu Schiller, correspondent and Wright State professor, will be giving a talk at the upcoming Teradata conference. Link below for more information about the1463...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DunnHumby Seeks to Invest in Cincinnati Startups
As they progress with their downtown US Headquarters facility:" ... Look for data analysis firm Dunnhumby’s new seed-stage venture fund to invest in CincinnatiPress...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spreadsheet Day is Today
A correspondent reports that today is spreadsheet day. " ... in honour of the date that VisiCalc was first shipped, way back in 1979. ... " I used to teach Visicalc...
From Computational Complexity
2013 Fall Jobs Post
Time again for the annual fall jobs post. As always the best places to look for academic CS positions are the job sites at the CRA and the ACM. Also check out the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualization in CPG, Current and Future
In Progressive Grocer: Good overview of virtualization in the Consumer Package Goods (CPG) industry. Aisles, stores, shoppers and even profit landscapes can be...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Software Partnership Meeting on October 17 at U.C. Berkeley School of Law
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will hold a Software Partnership Meeting tomorrow, October 17, 2013, from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific Time, at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insurance Companies Love the Quantified Car
As you might expect. All analytical methods, especially those that seek to predict, are by their nature data hungry. Sensors can feed those techniques to lead...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Subconscious Mistakes We Make
In Fastcompany: Very often seen in the enterprise. Even from very smart people. The confirmation bias, mentioned first, is a common mistake researchers make....
From Schneier on Security
iPhone Sensor Surveillance
The new iPhone has a motion sensor chip, and that opens up new opportunities for surveillance: The M7 coprocessors introduce functionality that some may instinctively...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Hour of Code Launches in San Francisco
Yesterday, Code.Org hosted an event in San Francisco to launch the Hour of Code program first introduced at the 2013 CSTA annual conference and in Myra Deister's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Ships from Inside P&G
Not surprising, this has now been going on for years. Still not enough volume to upset Wal-Mart? " ... Amazon has placed its workers in seven Procter & Gamble...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Radical New Teaching Method?
Aspects of AI inspired learning theories. Heavily technology driven. Now further enabled by MOOC. A kind of self organizing approach that assumes that children...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Harvesting Contact Lists
A new Snowden document shows that the NSA is harvesting contact lists -- e-mail address books, IM buddy lists, etc. -- from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shelf Retail Surveillance
In the news today. Word that a major CPG manufacturing conglomerate, Mondelez International, is expressing an interest in using cameras on store shelves to gather...
From Schneier on Security
New Secure Smart Phone App
It's hard not to poke fun at this press release for Safeslinger, a new cell phone security app from Carnegie Mellon. "SafeSlinger provides you with the confidence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
October Shopper Marketing
Always interesting online Mag. Sign up. Via Steve Frenda" ... The October issue of Shopper Marketing is a cause for celebration for those of us at the Institute...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tom Malone and the MIT Cognitive Center
We worked with Tom Malone some time ago. He is now director of the MIT Cognitive center. A push forward to AI, long ago started at MIT, that then stalled for aFrom...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
512
This is our 512th post Jim Carrey is an actor known best for his comedic roles, and is considered one of the top movie stars in Hollywood. He starred in the movie...
From Putting People First