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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
How Should We Choose Students?
Some of my previous posts have led me to think about the following -- something I'm hoping to write a longer piece about in the near future.In the past few weeks...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Seeking Program Directors Within Division of Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS)
On June 21, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a nationwide search for multiple Program Directors in the Division of Information & Intelligent Systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discarding the Loyalty Card
Albertson's drops the loyalty card. With all the data being generated by loyalty ideas, and new ones blooming, some retailers are moving the other way. And some...
From Wild WebMink
Brazil Protests Peaceful, And Not About Bus Fares
In preparation for FISL (where I hope to be speaking next week), I have been continuing to try to understand the protests in Brazil, which are now regularly bringing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
R in Action
Some time ago I ordered the Book: R in Action: Data Analysis and Graphics with R, by Robert I Kabakoff. Have had cause to refer to it a number of times, but have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing CIOs
A view of how the role of CIOs is changing. The short article makes the point that we have known for a long time. CIO's cannot be players that are in love with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE, AI and Modeling Hospitals with Corvix
Fascinating work by GE in the use of artificial intelligence in a system called Corvix. During the AI explosion of the 80s we talked to GE about what I would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foundation of the Internet of Things
In E-Commerce Times: Interesting idea, but how do we get all the things to work together? Were are the standards to make it work? Also good mention of how...
From Wild WebMink
Endangered Downloads
I’ve posted an article in a few places commenting briefly on the implications of Github, Google and others (but notably not SourceForge) deciding not to offer downloads...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Mix Criticized, Defended
Defense In AdAge: We used marketing mix since their very earliest inception. It is a relatively simple statistical technique that suggests the best investment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Avoiding Pitfalls in Predictive Analytics
Venkat Viswanathan makes some useful comments. Some of them relate to my favorite suggestion: Simplify." Predictive analytics will almost always enable better...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How the Acidification of the Oceans Affects Squid
It's not good. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Wild WebMink
Too Much Power?
In InfoWorld this week, I’ve reprised my views about contributor agreements. The trigger for this was seeing Oracle erroneously change the license for the MySQL...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Engagement Analytics for Cultural Venues
Its all about engaging the customer. All companies, large, small and midsize need better ways to engage with and retain their customers. And as the contextThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Checkout Time Technology
Good USA Today article on a number of methods that Kroger is using to improve checkout times. A high labor cost in retail, and frequent complaint of shoppers...
From Schneier on Security
US Offensive Cyberwar Policy
Today, the United States is conducting offensive cyberwar actions around the world. More than passively eavesdropping, we're penetrating and damaging foreign networks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Black Swans Circling?
In the HBR Blog. Provocative piece on the number of changes occurring that could influence the near term future of P&G. And many other consumer goods companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones Will Bring us Data
In Nature: We thought of using teams of robots to gather information from the plant and manufacturing spaces and outdoor staging yard floor. We did use satellite...
From Schneier on Security