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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
Associative Memories in Vivo
Some neural fingerprints of memory are decoded. A first tiny step towards experimentally verifiable results like neuromarketing, neural control and memory interfaces...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Analytics, Past and Future
I have been a long time practitioner of business analytics, the use of quantitative methods to improve business processes. Starting at the Defense Department, where...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Tournament
FromWharton: A March madness of innovation? I am not sure it works well for innovation, since crowd sourcing the measures to evaluate innovation results are not...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Seeking “Radical Innovation” in Data Analytics
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has joined forces with George Mason University to launch the Innovation House Study, seeking to foster ”radical...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Day One
Oh what a day! I’m at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond WA this week. This is a big event for Microsoft Research with...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An Education Tsunami
Will on-line courses destroy universities? Daphne Koller is a famous researcher who is on the faculty at Stanford University. She started her career as a theorist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Greenplum Analytics Blog
I have seen some interesting things out of Greenplum. They have just announced an analytics blog." ... Datastream, Greenplum’s official blog, delivering analytics...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
No Screen Time Under Two
We've got two computer scientists in our three-person family. Would it surprise you that our daughter, currently seven months old, is not allowed to watch anyThis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unlocking the Predictive Power of the Web
A piece in Singularity Hub on the temporal search in the forward looking search engine Recordedfuture, which I have now followed for some time. It now has a new...
From Schneier on Security
Remote Scanning Technology
I don't know if this is real or fantasy: Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body,remote...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benefits of Being Out of Touch
As PC use declines, we still expect to be in touch. Our devices call us to attention. We share the devices with personal communications and the difference blurs...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 16
July 17 Hearing: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the electric grid and cybersecurity. 10 a.m., 366 Dirksen Building July...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Cure for the CS Blues
Are you the only CS Teacher in your district? In your area? Are you feeling the pressure of trying to promote a curriculum that the schools/states do not always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revisiting P&G's Connect & Develop
Fast Company on P&G's Connect & Develop Approach. Good article on the purpose and direction of P&G's outsourcing of innovation using Connect and Develop. I would...
From Computational Complexity
CCC12: Post 1 of n
(Post 1 of n on CCC 2012. I don't know how large n is yet.) I will discuss the papers in the order they were presented. June 26, 2012. Morning Amplifying Circuit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Immersive Visualization
From Mindjet: Good overview of the concept of immersing yourself, and your business teams, in your data. I have covered the broad idea a number of times.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 July 2012
The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit starts today (about noon eastern US time) Much of it will be streamed at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PC Sales Slump
PC Sales are decreasing. Good statistics. Traditional sales leaders like HP and Dell are getting hit with the expectation of the company and worker that software...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Meaningful Use of Complex Medical Data
Organizers of the second annual symposium on Meaningful Use of Complex Medical Data (MUCMD)
From Putting People First