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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy Birthday, Kurt Gödel
Wang on Gödel, and Gödel on Wang source, with more Wang quotes Hao Wang was a logician who made many important contributions to mathematics and especially logic...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Digital Natives Providing Connections Other Generations
Once again, my family has come through just in time for another blog posting. This past weekend, we were able to celebrate my grandfather's 97th birthday. It...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Encourages Flexibility In Proposed Cybersecurity Framework
As part of the President’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is required to develop a Cybersecurity Framework...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain and Visualization
I note that a paper I co-authored some time ago has now been re-posted on Linkedin:Blending OR/MS, Judgment, and GIS: Restructuring P&G's Supply ChainINTERFACES...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Time to Share Knowledge?
At first I thought this was hokum. A connection to circadian rhythms that make us significantly more receptive to knowledge at some times? But thinking back to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sketches Selling Soap
A new Dove video called 'Sketches' now gone viral, seems to show how women's beauty view of themselves differs considerably from the view of others. It is very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ivan Sutherland and My History with E&S
For a number of years we used Evans & Sutherland interactive graphics displays to develop packaging for new products and to determine their compatibility with manufacturing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Goodbye Posterous
I see today that the simple blogging engine Posterous is soon to be deleted. I set up Posterous blogs for several people. It was a particularly easy to use method...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Native Advertising
In Techdirt, a good article about native advertising. Though the definitions vary in detail, it is advertising that is embedded deeply in the content itself. ...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Atlantic on research ecology
An interesting article in The Atlantic by computer scientist Ben Schneiderman on “an ecological model of research and development.” Donald Stokes (Pasteur’s Quadrant...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Sex, Lies, And Quantum Computers
Okay, no sex, but a discussion about quantum computers. Steven Soderbergh directed the famous movie: Sex, Lies, and Videotape. This 1989 movie won the Palme d’Or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in 3D Visualization
A recent conversation about how 3D visualization could improve the effect of shelf virtualization. An overview of current technology in Computer.org.
From Wild WebMink
Microsoft Firewall
On its first anniversary, I remain convinced that the motivation for Microsoft’s wholly-owned open source & open standards subsidiary is primarily to isolate Microsoft...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Lego Giant Squid Model
This is a fantastic Lego model of a space kraken attacking a Star Wars Super Star Destroyer. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Analytics from TDWI
At the TDWI conference, Fern Halper talks about what they call 'advanced analytics', which appears to include most statistical and numerical models beyond simple...
From Wild WebMink
Time For A Security Team For OpenJDK
In my InfoWorld column today I consider the recent news that Java 8 is going to be substantially delayed because Oracle’s development staff have had to focus on...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2013
Each year MIT’s magazine, MIT Technology Review, publishes a list 10 of breakthrough technologies that are most likely to change the world by fixing intractable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones and Now Nano satellites: Phonesats
Lots of things are getting small and more mobile. As presented in Computerworld. What are the implications of smaller and widely ranging sensors? " ......
From Daniel Lemire's Blog