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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
New SAS Visual Analytics for Big Data
In Information Management: The in-memory play continues: " SAS has unveiled a new in-memory analytics platform designed for scalability and very fast performance...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Reimagined
Windows 8 is going to be a big change for a lot of people. Microsoft is of course doing a lot to help people prepare for this. As part of this effort Microsoft...
From Wild WebMink
Promoting Document Freedom
Today is Document Freedom Day. It’s not the easiest subject to explain. It’s easy to explain why being free to video a police encounter in the USA is important,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA
Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), together with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
From Schneier on Security
SHARCS Conference
Last weekend was the 2012 SHARCS (Special-Purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems) conference. The presentations are online.
From Putting People First
An introduction to Lean
Laurence McCahill, design lead and co-founder of Spook Studio, explores for .net magazine the Lean Startup and Lean UX movements, which bring a groundbreaking approach...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top 50 Brands in Content Marketing
Some interesting statistics about mostly very well known companies that develop online content. Includes measures like Twitter followers, Facebook fans, Unique...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Judea Pearl Wins Turing Award
For contributions to artificial intelligence in the area of uncertainty and causal reasoning. More details about his work here. His excellent book: ... ...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Federal Trade Commission Pushes Forward With Online Privacy Initiative
Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released the final version of its report on consumer privacy online. It issued a draft report in December 2010 and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House to Announce Big Data R&D Initiative Thursday;Live Webcast Planned
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Giving Credit
In the HBR Blogs: We were always taught to give credit where it was due in the big enterprise. It does not meant that it always happened. A certain amount...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why Aren't You GoIng to CS&IT
Once agwin this year, CSTA will be holding its annual Computer Science and Information Technology conference. It will be a fabulous event and the people who attend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistical Insights
Steve Miller in Information Management: On our inability to link common sense and statically rigorous reasoning. Very true, and it is even more difficult tohis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablets Enhance Buying
In a survey by Aislebuyer. " ... 57% of shoppers said retailers that use mobile devices instead of cash registers are more appealing, even though only 22% have...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Publicly available large data sets for database research
Most database research papers use synthetic data sets. That is, they use random-number generators to create their data on the fly. A popular generator is dbgen...
From Computational Complexity
"Math was a mistake- I made it too hard"
(REMINDER- IF you are a STUDENT who wants to GOTO STOC 2012 but needs money to go then you should GOTO the STOC 2012 homepage and click on Travel Support. Deadline...
From Schneier on Security
The Effects of Data Breach Litigation
"Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation," Sasha Romanosky, David Hoffman, and Alessandro Acquisti: Abstract: In recent years, a large number of data breaches...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Universities Should Host High School Programming Contests
I finished up last week with a trip to Western New England University where they were running a high school programming contest. I love these events because I think...
From Wild WebMink
Magic Editable PDFs
Please stop sending .DOC or .DOCX files as attachments to your e-mails. There is a better way. Send editable PDFs. I explain how in ComputerWorldUK today.
From Putting People First