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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
Win Five Hundred Or A Million Dollars, By Recursion?
The Erdős discrepancy problem and more source — in memoriam Raymond Redheffer was an American mathematician. He worked for his PhD under Norman Levinson, who was...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Nominations for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Nominations for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation are due Monday, April 1, 2013. The award is the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
We are getting smarter as a matter of survival
A journalism student got very depressed after reading my post on genetically engineered intelligence. His feeling can be summarized by this question: if at some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks Loyalty Data Use
In Adage: Data pours in at Starbucks, a quarter using loyalty cards. Yet much of this data is not effectively used. Sounds like most of the loyalty systems I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Analysis Requires Business Saavy
I take this further. All Business Intelligence requires some business saavy. Or a close connection with the people responsible for decisions made with the data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibco Acquires Maporama
I see that Tibco Spotfire has acquired Maporama. " ... a privately-held, cloud-based provider of location intelligence and geospatial analytics solutions ...They...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using The Cloud To Your Benefit
Molly Malone of DMI Partners writes, in a guest post:As a technology enthusiast, you’ve no doubt heard of the cloud – cloud computing, cloud-based storage, cloud...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tagging
Reminder. All new blog posts, and many older ones are now tagged. Which means that at the end of each post there are listed a set of 'Labels', underlined words...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers that Can Teach Themselves
Machine learning is a favorite topic in AI. We did that in a simple form in what was called case based reasoning. But who directs learning? Can a machine create...
From Putting People First
Human-centred systems innovation
How do we help or support people that live in situations that do not fit into a system’s categories, e.g. by transforming perceptions of what a system can be? This...
From Schneier on Security
Our Internet Surveillance State
I'm going to start with three data points. One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. governmentaccessed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 March 2013
I’ll getting my feet under me again lately. I’m catching up on grading for one thing. And lesson planning and trying to have a life away from the computer. Having...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Black Holes of Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: Some cautionary thoughts about black holes of innovation. " ... Over the past few years, companies let go large numbers of research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Asset Failure
Always good question to ask. How can I accurately predict system failure and prepare for it? Especially when failure is rare? Failures can often cascade. WeNow...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
HTML and Computer Science
It started innocently enough as Twitter conversations are want to do. Eric Williams, a school superintendent in Virginia, posted a tweet about computer scienceHTML...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Compost Analytics for the City
This is a classic example of vehicle routing using analytics. I have worked on problems as disparate as ambulance routing in semi rural counties and routing log...
From Wild WebMink
Tina Dico at Union Chapel
Tina Dico at Union Chapel, originally uploaded by webmink. We had an evening out last night in London at Union Chapel, an excellent venue for acoustic gigs. We...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Analytics Book
A review of recent book Business Analytics: A Practitioner's Guide (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) by Rahul Saxena and Anand...
From Putting People First
Big Data and personal data for behavioral analysis and behavioral change
In a broader article on Big Data and privacy, the New York Times writes about the work of Alex Pentland, a computational social scientist, director of the Human...
From The Eponymous Pickle