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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 July 2012
I was pretty quiet last week. Some family stuff going on kept me away from work and (largely) off the Internet. Still over the last few days I have been catching...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Connect the Stars
How papers are like constellations Bob Vaughan is a mathematician at Penn State University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society—not ours, Ben Franklin helped...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Technology in the Background
In the NYT: An article suggesting that systems like Google Project Glass, once they are implemented well, will be a major shift that puts tech into the background...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Who teaches CS?
In a previous blog post (3/10/2012), Thinking Big About Computer Science Education, Baker Franke addressed two tightly-coupled problems: where does computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stat Tracking Shoes
Nike comes out with Stat tracking shoes. I had a talk with a person recently involved in the use of sensors and data gathering and analysis in athletics, and I...
From Putting People First
Common Cause: the case for working with values and frames
In 2009, the chief executives and a few staff from a handful of UK non-governmental organisations (including WWF and RSPB) came together to discuss the inadequacy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Unstructured Data
Information Management on: How to Mine Unstructured data. Good, fairly non technical view. We started doing this with external consumer comment data.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Outage Risks
Another Amazon cloud outage makes you wonder about the real risks involved with using cloud services. Should you have a backup cloud for these kinds of events?
From My Biased Coin
Anniversary
Today I get to celebrate that I'm two years done with my three year stint as "Area Dean for Computer Science" (chair). Whoever the new person is, they're supposed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manifest Destiny of AI
Walter Riker sends along a link to a thoughtful American Scientist article which asks a good question: " ... Will AI create mindlike machines, or will it show...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Books are now Reading You
In the WSJ: Excellent piece on how book reading is now less than a solitary activity with e-books. The new books are also reading you and gathering and leveraging...
From Wild WebMink
Solving NP-Complete Problems?
In preparing for the interview with the Java-based Drools Planner on FLOSS Weekly, my attention was grabbed by the claim it can solve NP-complete problems. You’ll...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Capturing the Timing of Public Statements
I am doing a deeper study of time domain search engine Recorded Future for its potential use by a client. A recent blog entry opened additional thoughts about"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assessing Networks
Thoughtful piece in the HBR blogs on assessing your network. Thinking of this as interesting " ... They came up with three components that would make members...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Another Giant Squid Found
A dead 13-foot-long giant squid has been found off the coast of New South Wales. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Labs Streams Live
The ACM Bulletin Announces:" ... For the first time, Microsoft Research will present its Faculty Summit in a virtual forum freely accessible by the public. On July...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CSTB Releases Study on
The National Academies’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) released this morning a new report –
From Computational Complexity
Instance Compression
Some announcements: FOCS Accepts, ITCS Call and ToC Special Issue for Rajeev Motwani I'd like to highlight one of the new FOCS papers, New Limits to Classical by...
From The Eponymous Pickle