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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
Myths of Predictive Analytics
With brief registration, a reasonable look at the topic. I would prefer first a better definition of the topic as well. All analytics aims to be predictive,"...
From Putting People First
How companies like Amazon use big data to make you love them
Businesses now sit on data goldmines, but very few leverage the data to improve customer service. Ziba’s creative director Sean Madden suggests three ways forward...
From Putting People First
Social TV and the second screen
Social TV is a major disruption in the rapidly changing television industry. In the free report “Social TV and the second screen“, Stowe Boyd, acclaimed futurist...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Waterman Awardees to Present to National Science Board Today
Scott Aaronson
From Schneier on Security
Criminal Intent Prescreening and the Base Rate Fallacy
I've often written about the base rate fallacy and how it makes tests for rare events -- like airplane terrorists -- useless because the false positives vastlyThis...
From Apophenia
Microsoft Research opens New York City lab
I am giddy with pleasure to share Jennifer Chayes’ announcement that Microsoft Research is opening a new lab in New York City that will be filled with computational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enemies and Innovation
Enemies sparking innovation. Martin Lindstrom writes an interesting piece about competition producing the need to innovate. Coke - Pepsi and Apple - Microsoft...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data: A
Calling data “a transformative new currency for science, engineering, education, and commerce,”
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Awards Can Be a real Boost for Students and Teachers
Recently I attended NCWIT's Aspirations in Computing Southern California Awards Ceremony in Santa Ana, CA. Two students from my COSMOS (California State Summer...
From Schneier on Security
Al Qaeda Steganography
The reports are still early, but it seems that a bunch of terrorist planning documents were found embedded in a digital file of a porn movie. Several weeks later...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Announces Distinguished Service, Doctoral Dissertation Awardees
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Discovery
Data discovery is not a term I have heard much recently. We experimented with the topic as part of a broader artificial intelligence program. It linked well with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Open Source Courses
Students respond to yet another example of free online courses. This prototype example from MIT on Electrical Engineering. The knowledge is starting to spread...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Operationalizing Business Analytics
A piece from the SAS blog on operationalizing business analytics. An important topic I am just working with " ... Business analytics is maturing
From Schneier on Security
Cybercrime as a Tragedy of the Commons
Two very interesting points in this essay on cybercrime. The first is that cybercrime isn't as big a problem as conventional wisdom makes it out to be. We have...
From Wild WebMink
Standards and Telecoms
A key insight into the UK Open Standards Consultation is that some of the opposition to truly open standards – ones without restrictions on implementation – comes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slashdot's Business Intelligence
The iconic Slashdot site has opened a new portal: SlashBI that focuses on business intelligence. " ... SlashBI is designed to offer the latest news and expert...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gmail Meter
I used Google's Gmail Meter for the first time today. If you use Gmail for significant quantities of mail, it is an excellent way to understand your email uses...
From The Eponymous Pickle