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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive is Smarter
Writes Christopher Conradi in Smarter Planet. Predictive maintenance is nothing new. We have done it in manufacturing for many years. What is new is the ability...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“A Hardware Renaissance”
An interesting article in The New York Times this weekend about the resurgence of hardware prototyping in the Bay Area: In recent years, Silicon Valley seems to...
From Computational Complexity
Knuth Prize
Leonid Levin will receive the Knuth Prize, and give the corresponding lecture, at FOCS this year. The Knuth Prize is jointly given by ACM SIGACT and the IEEE TC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Stethoscope
The iconic medical sensor the stethoscope is attached to a smartphone and connected to the cloud for a specific diagnosis task, finding children's pneumonia worldwide...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumers Ready for Mobile Payments?
Are consumers ready? When we first examined the problem it was clear they were not ready. Now things have changed, and within only a few years many will be using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blog Experimentation
This blog has been around for a very long time. Once a mirror for a blog within a large enterprise. Now in the midst of experimenting with changes in its use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
And Further: Why the @ Sign?
The Smithsonian looks at other needs we did not know we had. Here the emergence of the @ sign. The simple drawing of a concept. Once a rarely used key on a typewriter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplifying Innovation
Good thoughts on simplification of innovation in Innovation excellence. Proposed by John Brooker, inspired by an incident with bicycle gears, a " ... three...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Invention of Deodorant
Out of the Smithsonian Magazine: On the invention of deodorant. The classic history of the marketing of solutions we did not completely understand that we had...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Posing Big Data Questions
We see many of them these these days. Information Week looks at the needs for resources to solve these problems. Data scientists and tools are useful to have...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Why Do Some Arguments Seem Wrong?
Or: how stupid am I? Siegbert Tarrasch was a very strong player and teacher of chess in the late 19th century and into the early 20th century. He coined the term...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Sacrifices Arms to Avoid Predators
The squid Octopoteuthis deletron will drop portions of an arm to escape from a predator. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From Schneier on Security
Internet Safety Talking Points for Schools
A surprisingly sensible list. E. Why are you penalizing the 95% for the 5%? You don't do this in other areas of discipline at school. Even though you know some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online vs Bricks
Some interesting notes about the difference between online and in-store retail. These are mostly obvious conclusions, but would be useful to pass along to the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
To improve your intellectual productivity
We would all like to be smarter, to produce better software, better research papers or better art. It is not difficult to see that, by just about any metric, productivity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leader as Artist
In the HBR Blog: I am a believer in the quantification of of business, but this description of leader as artist is quite insightful. Think further of how the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Boot Camp Online
Colleague Krista Neher's Digital boot camp is now available online. " ... The popular and top-rated Social Media Boot Camp is now available online! Learn social...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What Computer Science Can Teach Us About Robotics
In a recent New York Times’ article, the newspaper’s technology writer John Markoff describes how advances in robotics have created new opportunities for automation...
From Schneier on Security
Fear and How it Scales
Nice post: The screaming fear in your stomach before you give a speech to 12 kids in the fifth grade is precisely the same fear a presidential candidate feels...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson