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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
Sentiment Analysis from SAP
Also had not realized SAP was into sentiment analysis. An overview via an interview here. " ... SearchSAP spoke to Sameer Patel, global vice president and general...
From Schneier on Security
Is the U.S. Government Recording and Saving All Domestic Telephone Calls?
I have no idea if "former counterterrorism agent for the FBI" Tom Clemente knows what he's talking about, but that's certainly what he implies here: More recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Effective Analytics
Good article about the idea. Summarized by linking to executive champions and truly understanding where the analytics intersects with decision process.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gap Analysis Paper
New from Tom Ritchey:For those who are interested in computer-aided GAP Analysis – especially concerning problem areas that are difficult to quantify – a new article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Catalina Adaptive Mobile Advertising
Mobile advertising from Catalina. Had not seen them in this space before, but admit have not followed them closely. " .. “BuyerVision Mobile represents a huge...
From Writing
Shit recruiters say
Just today, I got my 1,000th recruiter email in the last ~4 years. I know this is the number because I'm slightly obsessed with organization and have added a specific...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disrupting Education
In CACM: Research on the ongoing and imminent disruption of education. A model that has existed for 800 years sees itself threatened. What will make the new...
From My Biased Coin
Congratulations to Justin and Jon
Justin Thaler and Jon Ullman had back-to-back thesis defenses today. Both talks were excellent -- Justin's on his work on verification methods (for cloud computing)...
From Schneier on Security
Intelligence Analysis and the Connect-the-Dots Metaphor
The FBI and the CIA are being criticized for not keeping better track of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the months before the Boston Marathon bombings. How could they have...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Most Perplexing Mystery
The discrete log and the factoring problem Antoine Joux is a crypto expert at Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University. He is also one of the crypto experts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Does e-Commerce Development in House
Perhaps an unusual choice. Most large non-tech companies use off the shelf or outsource such capabilities. Wal-Mart feels it has special understanding of it needs...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 6
May 8 Hearing: The Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism of the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on responses to cyberthreats. 9 a.m., 226 Dirksen Building...
From Schneier on Security
Michael Chertoff on Google Glass
Interesting op-ed by former DHS head Michael Chertoff on the privacy risks of Google Glass. Now imagine that millions of Americans walk around each day wearing...
From Putting People First
Tweeting Minarets: joining quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
In the last post of the EthnographyMatters Ethnomining edition (edited by Nicolas Nova), David Ayman Shamma @ayman gives a personal perspective on mixed methods...
From Putting People First
It’s time to reinvent the Personal Computer
Although Windows and Macintosh are both showing their age, Michael Mace of Cera Technology thinks there is enormous opportunity for a renaissance in personal computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Michael Schrage
Just started to review some of Michael Schrage's posts in his HBR blog that had to do with analytics, data visualization and the digitization of business. Well...
From Computational Complexity
Are you smarter than a fifth grader? I'm not.
My darling sometimes watches TV in the middle of the night when she can't sleep.So I found myself watching (actually listening) to the quiz show Are You Smarter...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to be effective at open source: by programmers, for programmers
Though it does not get much press, one of the great social and technological innovation of the last 30 years has been open source software. To about 90% of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Geographic Data
An interesting HBR Blog case study on visualizing geographic data. They conclude reasonably: " ... There are lots of ways to sequence development. But the end...
From Schneier on Security