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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
But I Haven't Thought of You Lately At All....
I realize the times they-are-a-changing, and so maybe I shouldn't find this unusual, but...Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas put up a Kickstarter campaign to raise 2Done...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Again: D-Wave
Now a number of years ago I met with some former colleagues to pose appropriately difficult problems for their recently constructed quantum computer D-Wave. quantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco and Giraffe
A UK Correspondent RJ writes:A new Tesco development, sounds almost like they are planning Tesco malls!"...Supermarket group Tesco has bought the restaurant chain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Survey of Statistical Package
A short survey of statistical packages in use by OR professionals.by Vincent Granville in Analytic Bridge.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Explore Data with Excel
A good introductory review. There are still lots of groups that use Excel exclusively for manipulating data. Now an add-in that addresses the further exploration...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
No-Go Theorems
How far does no-go go? Simon Kochen is the Henry Burchard Fine Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. He wrote a PhD thesis on ultrafilters at Princeton...
From My Biased Coin
Turing Award : Goldwasser and Micali
Got in the office this morning and heard about the latest Turing Award: Congrats to Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali! (Press release.)
From Schneier on Security
Security Theater on the Wells Fargo Website
Click on the "Establishing secure connection" link at the top of this page. It's a Wells Fargo page that displays a progress bar with a bunch of security phrases...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Client Composite Background
A document that contains links to a number of blog posts that represent my major work and client relationships. Still in draft, but provides a good starting point...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2012 ACM Turing Award Recipients Announced
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers, Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali, are recipients...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Team Smartphone Use Soars
Useful PEW statistics about Teen smartphone use. Again the expectation that the future will be mobile, local and very personal. We need to be ready for that.
From Putting People First
Design and public services
Design and Public Services is the second publication in the UK Design Commission‘s ‘Restarting Britain’ series. The first set out the strategic importance of design...
From Putting People First
methods@manchester: research methods in the social sciences
methods@manchester is a website created by the University of Manchester to highlight and explain research methods in the social sciences. Many sections come with...
From Putting People First
No to NoUI
‘The best design is invisible’ is the interaction design phrase of the moment. Design and technology will ‘disappear’, become ‘invisible’, and the ‘best interface...
From Putting People First
Will mobile education arrive in the developing world
(As if it hasn’t already). In developing countries, where smartphones and dependable cellular networks are still scarce, it’s been difficult to gauge the real impact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Body Imaging: Poikos
Stan Dyck sends along a link to Poikos, " ... Poikos means 3D body measurement, on any device, in seconds. Thanks for dropping by. After a successful closed beta...
From Computational Complexity
Turing Award to Shafi and Silvio
The 2012 ACM Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, will be given to MIT cryptographers Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali. From the press release...
From Apophenia
thank you SXSW
Last night, I was inducted into the SXSW-Interactive Hall of Fame in a whirlwind awards ceremony. I only had a flash of a moment to reflect so I want to take a...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Best-seller Lists
It turns out that you can buy a position for your book on best-seller lists.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson