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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST: $2.6 Million for Novel Semiconductor Research
On Tuesday, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a solicitation
From The Eponymous Pickle
KC to Market in a Digital World
About how Kimberly Clark plans to market in a digital world. Semantics or a key subtlety?" .. Spurring growth for such brands as Huggies, Cottonelle and Scott"It's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Smarts in the Smart Grid
In CACM: I visited and presented at GE's Smart Grid Center in Atlanta last year. They are doing some very impressive things and presenting the results to industry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotfire Social
I was an early user of Spotfire, now Tibco Spotfire. An impressive package for deep data visualization and delivery. They have added a number of social features...
From Computational Complexity
David Waltz (1943-2012)
David Waltz, head of the Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia, passed away yesterday after a battle with a brain tumor at the age of 68. David...
From Wild WebMink
? Will mobile devices trigger the year of the Linux desktop?
The enterprise IT world is coming to grips with a new buzz-TLA; “BYOD”. It stands for Bring Your Own Device and considers the way employees are bringing their own...
From Schneier on Security
The Economist Debate on Airplane Security
On The Economist website, I am currently debating Kip Hawley on airplane security. On Tuesday we posted our initial statements, and today (London time) we posted...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Ready For Windows 8
Like almost everyone at Microsoft I have been hard at work getting ready for Windows 8. I
From The Noisy Channel
Claudia Perlich: Tech Talk on Real-Time Bidding Optimization
Conventional wisdom holds that physical compliments are counter-productive as pick-up lines. Indeed, a dating site did some analysis showing a negative correlation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lifebrowser Lets You Explore Your Past
Clever idea, from Microsoft, that could have application for mining important aspects of corporate history for training: ... " Prototype software called Lifebrowser...
From Computational Complexity
A Busy Time of The Year
It's spring break week at Northwestern so life is supposed to be quiet. No such luck. Endre Szemer
From The Eponymous Pickle
I am Available
Every now and then I pop in here to remind people that I am a consultant. I get many queries from my writing in this blog. I have just had two large projects...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Flexibility and Creativity in Teaching
Hack Education has an interesting interview with Laura Blankenship, a computer science teacher in Pennsylvania. I think it's great the flexibility Laura demonstrates...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Analytics of Tomorrow
SymphontyIRI and GMA are starting a project on identifying the analytics of tomorrow. " ... GMA is working with research firm SymphonyIRI on Analytics2020, a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing for Disaster Management Visioning
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), together with the National Science Foundation (NSF), is co-sponsoring a limited-participation visioning workshop on computing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do we need copyright?
The concept of property is a social construction. Animals, such as cats, can own a piece of food, or a territory, but only as long as they are able to personally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fizzback Customer Feedback Channel
Eurostar experiments with Customer Feedback"When considering their options, Haynes and his team trialled a system from Fizzback, a UK start-up that was acquired...
From Schneier on Security
Can the NSA Break AES?
In an excellent article in Wired, James Bamford talks about the NSA's codebreaking capability. According to another top official also involved with the program...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog