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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 Schneier on Security
Help Cryptanalyze Gauss
Kaspersky is looking for help decrypting the Gauss payload.
From Putting People First
The first Informal Economy Symposium in Barcelona – October 12, 2012
HOW WILL the informal economy impact the global business landscape? The landscape of the Informal Economy is vast – from street vending to P2P networks, from piracy...
From The Noisy Channel
Matt Lease: Recent Adventures in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
Today we had the pleasure of hosting UT-Austin professor Matt Lease at LinkedIn to give a talk on his “Recent Adventures in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation“...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dancing on the Edge of Truth
David Carr in the NYT: On recent plagiarism events. As 'journalists' we all aggregate, combine, co-create and sit on the work of those that have come before...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 August 2012
Back from vacation and trying to catch up with things. I had over 450 unread email messages in spite of doing some triage over the vacation so if I haven’t gotten...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pricing Strategy in a Recession
An Interesting Article on P&G's Pricing Strategy and options in a post recessionary period. " ... The Wall Street Journal has reported that Procter & Gamble...
From Schneier on Security
Passive Sensor That Sees Through Walls
A new technology uses the radiation given off by wi-fi devices to sense the positions of people through a one-foot-thick brick wall.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Promise Behind Khan's Computer Science Offerings
I haven't tried them yet. I thought it would be interesting to reflect on the latest addition to Khan Academy before I actually did the tutorials, and then see...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Outsourcing Services Expand
Slide show from a Gartner report on the expansion of the need for outsourcing services. I have also noted this in my own personal experience.The needs for services...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobilizing the Field Force
A topic that I have had to think about recently. Its naturally being done for issues of research, compliance and enhanced understanding of the consumer and their...
From The Noisy Channel
WTF! @ k: Measuring Ineffectiveness
At SIGIR 2004, Ellen Voorhees presented a paper entitled “Measuring Ineffectiveness” in which she asserted: Using average values of traditional evaluation measures...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“The Algorithm That Runs the World”
New Scientist published a great story last week describing the history and evolution of the simplex algorithm — complete with a table capturing “2000 years of algorithms”...
From Schneier on Security
The View from an Israeli Security Checkpoint
This is an extraordinary (and gut-wrenching) first-person account of what it's like to staff an Israeli security checkpoint. It shows how power corrupts: how it's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peer Reviewed Places
In Wired: Proposing a Facebook for scientists designed to keep them from making mistakes early in their work. Not peer reviewed, but peer supported interaction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scenario Planning
A new book on scenario planning. A method we experimented with in the enterprise as establishing guides to alternative futures. I often found it good, useful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rail and Shale
Rail industry benefits. From MJ Perry. There will be other consequences to the broader US supply chain, and new jobs in the industry.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robotics and Automation, the Future of Manufacturing
New York Times‘ tech writer John Markoff has penned a feature in today’s newspaper describing recent advances in robotics and automation, what they mean for the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data, Smaller
In Wired: Dremel vs Hadoop in big data exploration and leverage. Good read. " ... Dremel is a way of analyzing information. Running across thousands of servers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Linking Loyalty to Facebook
More innovative things from the big retailer: " ... Savvy online shoppers will have the chance to earn double Clubcard points by using Facebook to like, share and...
From The Eponymous Pickle