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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
GEPhi Graph Visualization for Exploratory Data Analysis
This method was brought to my attention my a colleague. We had looked at it some time ago and it has come back as a possible exploratory solution.The Open Graph...
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On the Movement of Queues
In Mind Hacks: Why the other line in a queueing situation always moves faster than yours. A good example of how perception beats out rational thought. In mywith...
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Portfolio as Innovation Dashboard
In Innovation Excellence: We used exactly this approach in the enterprise new product development world. Its very useful if you have many competing efforts" ....
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Smarter Cashless Vending Machines
Cashless Vending machines are now smarter. We examined machines like this in Japan that could adapt to supply chain and demand problems.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are 8-bit or 16-bit counters faster than 32-bit counters?
Programmers often want to count things. They typically use 32-bit counters (e.g., the int type in Java). But what if you are counting small numbers? Maybe a 16-bit...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in the Cook Islands
Diamondback squid could be a source of food. No word on taste. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Early Experiences with Poll Everywhere and Peer Instruction
I've now survived the first three lectures in both my classes. Both are introductory computing classes for non-majors: one is heavier on concepts but includeseven...
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Engaging Social and Mobile Consumers
In the coming weeks I will be passing along some of the excellent work by correspondent Phil Hendrix. Three-part Series on Engaging Social and Mobile Consumers...
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Big Data and IBM
Not unexpected view and direction by IBM. Riding the hype wave, with their own considerable analytics resources. Those put together can provide a formidable capability...
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SAP Buying KXEN
SAP buys a fairly well known predictive analytics company, KXEN. Have followed SAP in the past with its other related acquisitions, like Khimetrics in 2005. ...
From Schneier on Security
New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services
The Brazilian television show "Fantastico" has exposed an NSA training presentation that discusses how the agency runs man-in-the-middle attacks on the Internet...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Are People Better At (Then Computers)
I love xkcd. It’s probably the nerdiest comic strip around. Recently the following strip appeared. I think that people are still better at creating comic strips...
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Remembering Douglas Engelbart
Ted Talks on his visionary work." ... One of the pioneers of the Internet and graphic user interfaces, Engelbart is perhaps best known for inventing the computer...
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The Influence of Showrooming
Lots of fears regarding the influence of 'showrooming' in driving place of purchase ..." ... But a study released Thursday from Columbia Business School and loyalty...
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Macy's Using Data and Showing Restraint
From the D2 Conference in Cincinnati via AdAdge: " ... Macy's sees plenty of value in data-driven marketing and believes consumers should hear more from marketers...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Teacher Teach Yourself
How teaching helps you understand proofs Stanislav Žák is a theorist who has made important contributions to complexity theory. He was at the Institute for Computation...
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Tableau 8 Guide
Recently released: Tableau 8: The Official Guide by George Peck I am in the midst of a project that specifies this, and searched for several fairly obscure things...
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Instant Entrepreneurship
From the Front End of Innovation: Is Instant Entrepreneurship the future? More importantly, what precisely is it? Was the first I head of it:Interview with ...
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