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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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A nice article on The New York Times‘s Bits Blog yesterday, about Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Luis von Ahn and his Duolingo experiment: Language...Erwin Gianchandani From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | June 20, 2012 at 10:53 AM
In Wired: Future thinking relies on out memory of the past. And our memories of the past are not as reliable as we think. They are easily altered and deceived....Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | June 20, 2012 at 02:19 AM
Eminent computer scientist Bill Wulf, who has been a leader by example for so many years in so many ways, has resigned from the University of Virginia to protest...Ed Lazowska From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | June 19, 2012 at 09:45 PM
The work of Robert Axelrod and William Poundstone fascinated us in graduate school as we tried to apply AI techniques to decision strategies. I see that The Edge...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | June 19, 2012 at 08:33 PM
Clever attack:
When you pay a restaurant bill at your table using a point-of-sale machine, are you sure it's legit? In the past three months, Toronto and Peel...schneier From Schneier on Security | June 19, 2012 at 06:02 PM
Bain Insights: Which makes considerable sense. " ... The revenues and stocks of companies with highly engaged workers outperform those of companies with low engagement...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | June 19, 2012 at 05:46 PM
In Progressive Grocer: Safeway joins with Duke-Ipsos on shopping research. More on that effort. There has been relatively little I have found on this shopping...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | June 19, 2012 at 04:01 PM
Mikko Hyponnen of F-Secure attempts to explain why anti-virus companies didn't catch Stuxnet, DuQu, and Flame:
When we went digging through our archive for related...schneier From Schneier on Security | June 19, 2012 at 02:35 PM
Analyzing raw video from cameras. Videomining, a company we talked to as a potential solution for analyzing retail video lab stores that examined shopping contexts...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | June 19, 2012 at 12:48 PM
The other day the Kodu team announced Studio K. What is Studio K you ask? In my opinion itAlfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 19, 2012 at 10:15 AM
I see in Engadget the military is looking for universal remotes for drone fleets. I was thinking about the general idea of how to make a remote universal the other...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | June 19, 2012 at 01:53 AM
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post the call at http://simons.berkeley.edu/cfp_summer2012.html for the Call for Proposals for Simons Institute programs. The deadline...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 18, 2012 at 08:23 PM
Brought to my attention. Worth examining as an alternative to blogging with the ability to directly monetize the interaction.Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | June 18, 2012 at 06:24 PM
An approach I think will continue to advance. Safeway takes some good steps. Making connections more digital, more App-like. This will connect data, information...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | June 18, 2012 at 06:07 PM
On banning guns:
"If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat,which he could do very...schneier From Schneier on Security | June 18, 2012 at 05:38 PM
Teachers get to celebrate two New Years per year : The secular one in winter and the academic one in summer.
As I finalize my grades, I can't help but reflect... From Computer Science Teachers Association | June 18, 2012 at 05:37 PM
June 19 Hearing: The Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the public policy...David B. From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | June 18, 2012 at 03:34 PM
Software is eating the world. Despite a poor year, Facebook has a market capitalization of $65 billion. This little company with barely 2000 developers is worth...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | June 18, 2012 at 02:28 PM
Instructive examples of where the use of QR codes failed for specific brands. " ... review of hundreds of 2D-based campaigns, for every one campaign that does...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | June 18, 2012 at 01:59 PM