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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 My Biased Coin
Some Advice on Entrepreneurship from the AH meeting
At the Andreessen Horowitz academic round table (see past post), there was various advice, some of it contradictory, for professor-types interested in startingAMPLab...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass Alternative in Japan
And yet more in the world of wearable devices, this from Japan: At least in its prototype this looks fairly clunky ...." ... This week at Ceatec, a technology trade...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Wearables
Even Intel is doing wearables. On Intel's New Devices Group: Did not realize they were a player until I saw this: " ... When most people think about the future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Mobility
In the Cisco Blog: Is it an disappearing act? I am inclined to think it will, like the phone, still be visible and mostly selective for some time. I do like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Maps?
Waze, now part of Google maps, also made me thing of this, at least in outsourcing the metadata about the maps. Can maps be crowdsourced?
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Stealing Strategies
How constructive are strategy stealing proofs? David Gale was a famous mathematician and economist, who passed away just over five years ago. I had the honor of...
From Schneier on Security
On Secrecy
"When everything is classified, then nothing is classified." I should suppose that moral, political, and practical considerations would dictate that a very first...
From Schneier on Security
My TEDx Talk
I spoke at TEDxCambridge last month on security and power. Here's the video.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever New Product Development
" Unilever announces the launch of a research project with the University of Liverpool to develop the next generation of renewable chemicals from biomass to use...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Ed Week and an Hour of Code are coming
An announcement for Hadi Partovi, founder of code.org, about Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 9-15) and the Hour of Code initiative. To celebrate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waze and Google, Together
Was an early user of Waze, which did some very interesting things with social car travel. Intriqued about how Google bought them for $1 Billion. Now the US FTC...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What I found interesting lately: Xkcd on the halting problem: "Big picture .... all things must someday die" ([1]) "Your fingerprint isn't a secret; you leave...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curious Voyager
My longtime colleague Walter Riker, has a long running blog Curious Voyager. Follow him. He does excellent training in the MS Office Space. He also keeps up...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Random Forests for Classification
A technical discussion of using Random Forest Algorithms for large database classification problems. Have not used this myself yet, but I am dealing with classification...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings Week of September 30
Well, it would appear that some things are still happening during the shutdown. I would recommend, however, that you double check before visiting any of these meetings...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics World
Some early takeaways from Predictive Analytics World. Instructive comments that I could agree with in general.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Miriah Meyer, former Computing Innovation Fellow, named a 2013 PopTech Science Fellow
Miriah Meyer was a Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) from 2009 – 2011 at Harvard University. Upon completion of her Fellowship...
From The Eponymous Pickle
4D Printing Adapts
So what is 4D Printing? Printing objects that can adapt to their environment. In GigaOM. " ... 3D printing promises to give us objects on demand. But 4D printing...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Storing Internet Data, Social Networking Data, on Pretty Much Everybody
Two new stories based on the Snowden documents. This is getting silly. General Alexander just lied about this to Congress last week. The old NSA tactic of hiding...
From The Eponymous Pickle