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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 Noisy Channel
Data 2.0 Summit
I’ll be participating in the Data 2.0 Summit on Tuesday, April 3rd, and I hope to see some of you there. Last year, my colleague (and fellow LinkedIn data scientist)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Sanjeev Arora Named Winner of 2011 ACM-Infosys Award
Congratulations to Sanjeev Arora, the Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science at Princeton, who yesterday was named the recipient of the 2011 ACM-Infosys...
From Computational Complexity
The Value of an Academic Publication
Russell O'Connor's paper was accepted into last years ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming. Russell put the final version of his paper on the ArXiv under...
From Wild WebMink
? OSI Affiliate Scheme Grows
It’s been an open secret all month, but two new members have joined the Affiliate scheme at OSI – Spain’s CENATIC (the national open source competency centre that’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Imaging Patents at Apple
An interesting patent description from Apple on 3D imaging patents. And some additional information on 3D imaging developments. Useful for retail context applications...
From My Biased Coin
The Groupon effect on Yelp ratings (Guest Post)
Giorgos Zervas discusses our recent paper (just accepted to EC).A few months ago, in a paper that eventually appeared at WSDM 2012, John, Michael and I (Giorgos)...
From Wild WebMink
Available For US Engagements
I expect to be in the USA in early-to-mid May (and possibly again in July). If you would like me to speak at a private or public event, or to provide consulting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cross Posting in Pinterest and GPlus
Starting immediately, select posts from this blog will be cross posted in Pinterest and G+ under my name as an experiment. Follow them there as this idea and design...
From Schneier on Security
Summer Schools in Cryptography and Software Security at Penn State
Normally I just delete these as spam, but this summer program for graduate students 1) looks interesting, and 2) has some scholarship money available.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chains Benefit From Information Sharing
This is obvious. Collaboration is important at strategic and tactical levels. But the details are worth repeating. " ... In a report by SCM World, 49.1% of buyers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Process: Making Analytics Work for Every Company
When I worked with analytical methods in the big enterprise, it was often the case that work had already been done to map out the business processes involved. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Check Outs of the Past
LA Times Article: On the state of the supermarket checkout and coming expected migration to smartphones. With a pointer to technologies of times past that we...
From Computational Complexity
Sanjeev Arora wins ACM-Infosys Award
Sanjeev Arora will receive the 2011 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, the highest honor ACM gives to a mid-career scientist. Sanjeev Arora is one of the architects...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Obama Administration Unveils $200M Big Data R&D Initiative
The Obama Administration has unveiled details
From Schneier on Security
Harms of Post-9/11 Airline Security
As I posted previously, I have been debating former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley on the Economist website. I didn't bother reposting my opening statement and rebuttal...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NY Times on Today
As we noted on Tuesday, the Obama Administration is scheduled to announce a new, multi-agency Big Data R&D Initiative today. An event — to be streamed live via...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikipedia and the University
Abstract of a case study: it is still evolving, but the younger cadres of teachers and students see it as a viable tool. Similar to the way any encyclopedia was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jive Intranet Gamification
Team collaboration and Gamification. An area we looked at a number of times without much success. Corporate culture was never one to experiment with anything...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
DevCamps
Microsoft is happy to announce that Windows 8 DevCamps have been added...
From The Eponymous Pickle