Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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
Five Senses for the Smart Phone
Looking forward to this development. Cognitive computing: IBM wants to give the smartphone 5 senses. " ... IBM believes technology's future lies in cognitive...
From My Biased Coin
Put This On My List...
Put this on my list of papers I wish I had written: Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting. I think the title...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Providing Radio Frequency Data Backbone to Match Fiber Optic Capacity
DARPA is envisioning a 100-Gigabit per second Radio Frequency communications link between airborne and ground assets. Currently, fiber optic cables provide the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Science Data Frontiers
Another interesting piece by Steve Miller on the use of social science data. We are at the edge of doing some very interesting data derived from our new devices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter TV Measure
In AdAge: Nielsen and Twitter establish new method to rate TV. " ... The "Nielsen Twitter TV Rating" will measure audiences for social TV activity on Twitter,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Pushes Open Source
DARPA continues to push open source technology solutions, leading to more agile and modular systems, which can lead to even broader democratization of data and "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brick Meets Click
Newly discover site and blog: Brick Meets Click. " ... Thought-leading perspective on how technology is changing the future of shopping. A strategic resource...
From Schneier on Security
Nasty Samsung Phone Exploit
There's a new exploit against Samsung Galaxy phones that allows a rogue app access to all memory. A hacker could copy all of your data, erase all of your data,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating and Selling Books and Content
An article on book generation. I have been involved for a few years book selling and auction systems, so this approach constructed by a professor at INSEAD toPatented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nanotechnology Blog and Foresight Institute
Nanodot, the Foresight Institute's informative nanotechnology blog. We used some of their resources in the early days of nano tech for product development. Always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards an Era of Big Data for the Little Guy
I was invited to a presentation by Intuit and Emergent Research last week. Intuit presented an excellent view of how they were addressing the world of big data...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Celebrating One Whole Year
Yesterday was Molly's first birthday, and we had a wonderful family celebration. Looking back, I realized just how much I've accomplished this year! With Christmas...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Opportunity Begat Opportunity
Occasionally an opportunity comes along, out of the blue, that really makes you stand up and take notice. It is not something that has been on your radar, nor...
From Schneier on Security
Possible Decryption of World War II Pigeon Message
A Canadian claims that the message is based on a WWI codebook. A spokesman from GCHQ remains dubious, but says they'll be happy to look at the proposed solution...
From Computational Complexity
Goodstein Sequences (Its his 100th birthday!)
LANCE: Bill, on Dec 15, 2012 it will be Reuben Goodstein's 100th birthday. BILL: Is he still alive? Will there be a conference in his honor? Free Food? Cake? ...
From Apophenia
The Kinder & Braver World Project: Research Series – Eight Papers on The Role of Youth Organizations and Youth Movements for Social Change
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce the publication of eight new of papers in The Kinder & Braver World Project...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 December 2012
Five school days until Christmas. Well at my house at least. Are you taking some time off for the holiday season or will you be filling a lot of the time with grading...
From Apophenia
Dear Media, Back The F*** Off Newtown
In late May – or maybe early June – of 1999, I ended up at a rave in a field on the outskirts of Denver. I was driving cross-country and I wasn’t thinking about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Second Search
A telling view in Xconomy with considerable background information concerning Google's knowledge graph work. Positioning it as a 'second brain', to avoid coming...
From updated sporadically at best