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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Patent Public Advisory Committee Meeting – May 16, 2013
The USPTO Patent Public Advisory Committee will hold its quarterly meeting on Thursday, May 16, 2013 from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm at the USPTO campus in Alexandria,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anti Churn Analytics
A not uncommon application for analytics. Decreasing customer churn. This loyalty problem is an expensive issue in many periodic sales industries. A case study...
From Wild WebMink
What does the Special 301 really reveal?
Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: This week the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released the annual Special 301 Report. For those of you who...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Activities of the Federal Big Data Initiative
In recent weeks, several new activities of the Federal Big Data Initiative have been launched with the goal of addressing the challenges and opportunities of Big...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Trillion Dollar Math Trick
How linear algebra can make databases go really fast Mike Stonebraker is one of the world’s leading expert on database technology. He started in academe at Berkeley...
From Schneier on Security
Risks of Networked Systems
Interesting research: Helbing's publication illustrates how cascade effects and complex dynamics amplify the vulnerability of networked systems. For example, just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Second Screens
An examination of the second screen phenomenon. Mashable looks how it is evolving. And a number of interesting players.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsors Computational Sustainability Award at CHI 2013
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored a sustainability award at CHI 2013, ACM’s premiere conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Shoppers into Heat Maps
A piece in Bloomberg about tracking shoppers in retail. A subject we did much with in retail laboratory environments, and much has been written about here. More...
From Computational Complexity
Map Coloring Revisited
Following the coloring theme from Bill's last post, a few years ago I asked you readers for natural examples of maps that were and were not three colorable. Chris...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Camera Inspired by Insect Eyes
In Science Mag. A new camera that was inspired by an alternative model for sight, using multiple individual lenses to focus on objects. The claim is that the result...
From Schneier on Security
More on FinSpy/FinFisher
FinFisher (also called FinSpy) is a commercially sold spyware package that is used by governments world-wide, including the U.S. There's a new report that hasbunch...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cultural Analytics
Lev Manovich on Cultural Analytics. " ... Cultural Analytics: computational analysis and visualization of massive cultural visual datasets in the humanities....
From Putting People First
Design for Public Good, a new report for the European Commission
The UK Design Council and three other members of the SEE Platform (Sharing Experience Europe) – the Danish Design Centre, Design Wales and Aalto University, Finland...
From Putting People First
Designing for the multi-user: missed by Apple, Google and others
The iPad is a multi-user device according to industry reports, writes Frank Spillers. But you wouldn’t know it from picking up even the latest generation iPad,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Very Thin RFID Tags
In GigaOM: For use in applications like embedding tags into advertising in magazines. Or integrating with product packaging. Or other on shelf applications.
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Store Eye Tracking
An example of a store display tracking eye movement. " ... Scientists at Lancaster University have created advertising screens which track your eye movement as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Discussion About Online Education
Good discussion of On line Education (MOOC):On April 25, 2013, UPenn President Amy Gutmann appeared on the Charlie Rose show to discuss online education with fellow...
From Schneier on Security
Google Pays $31,000 for Three Chrome Vulnerabilities
Google is paying bug bounties. This is important; there's a market in vulnerabilities that provides incentives for their being kept secret and exploitable; for...
From The Eponymous Pickle