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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
Quantum Repetition
Aram Harrow and Gil Kalai debate “Conjecture 1″ William Wootters and Wojciech Zurek were office-mates in 1979 as graduate students at U.T. Austin in John Wheeler’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Observation
Ethnographer at PARC speaks: " ... I spend a lot of time observing ordinary people going about their business — in hospitals, shopping malls, living rooms, even...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Senior Care Robotics
Eldercare robotics. A direction pioneered in Japan that that we saw demonstrated at a major manufacturer. This approach designed for seniors with cognitive impairment...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Big Data’s Management Revolution”
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of MIT have posted an interesting entry to the Harvard Business Review Blog about big data and corporate management: Big data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Little Decisions from Big Data
An overview of predictive analytics in Information Management. Reasonably good overview of analytics today. It is all about utilizing data we are gathering today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kalido and Teradata
Brought to my attention regarding agile data consolidation, late but worth noting:" ... Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading analytic data solutions company, and Kalido...
From Wild WebMink
Apple and Connector Standards
It seems Apple wasn’t serious when it promised the European commission it would use micro-USB. Read more about it in my article in ComputerWorldUK this week.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Museum
In Valdés, Spain. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Analytics with Voziq
Correspondent Chris Herbert sends along a link to Voziq. ... Monitor the social web for mentions of your brand, competitors and industry- Benchmark how you compare...
From Schneier on Security
Schneier on Security on Elementary
Two of my books can be seen in the background in CBS' new Sherlock Holmes drama, Elementary. A copy of Schneier on Security is prominently displayed on Sherlock...
From The Noisy Channel
RecSys 2012: Beyond Five Stars
I spent the past week in Dublin attending the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012). This young conference has become the premier...
From Schneier on Security
Man-in-the-Middle Bank Fraud Attack
This sort of attack will become more common as banks require two-factor authentication: Tatanga checks the user account details including the number of accounts...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Agencies Announcing First Round of NRI Awards
The first round of awards for next-generation robotics R&D through the National Robotics Initiative (NRI) are being announced today, according to White House Office...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protest Monitoring
I mentioned Recorded Future's monitoring analysis of the embassy attacks. Now they have followed with a thirty minute video that examines the approach. A good...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transparent Mobile Computing
From CIO: The ability to have Apps run on multiple mobile platforms. From Intel: "... "With transparent computing, software developers no longer must choose...
From Wild WebMink
Software Patent Solution Under Our Noses
I was blown away by a paper by legal scholar Mark Lemley when I read it in full this week. He plausibly claims there’s a very simple and elegant solution to software...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Think Outside The Textbook
I was talking to a teacher, well chatting online via Facebook actually, and I described what he does as “thinking outside the textbook.” Speaking as someone who...
From Putting People First
The age of data sharing (report)
We live in an age of sharing. As consumers and online, we regularly share personal information, and generate new data through our browsing or purchasing history...
From The Eponymous Pickle