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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 Computational Complexity
Rank these possibilities by probability
Readers- I want you to answer this question and post your answers as comments. I will tell you WHY I am asking tommorow. Susan is 28 years old, single, outspoken...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 January 2012
Wow! What a weekend I had. Microsoft was pretty involved with the kick off of this year
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New DoD Strategy Puts Focus on Technological Innovation
President Obama, together with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and members of the Armed Forces, rolled out a new
From Schneier on Security
The TSA Proves its Own Irrelevance
Have you wondered what $1.2 billion in airport security gets you? The TSA has compiled its own "Top 10 Good Catches of 2011": 10) Snakes, turtles, and birds were...
From My Biased Coin
ITCS, Day 1
I spent much of today at ITCS (Innovations in Computer Science) 2012, over at MIT. Justin gave an excellent talk on our work (with Graham Cormode) on Practical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D iPhone printer App
This hardly seems practical or cost efficient, but it is an interesting first baby step in remote manufacture. I am awaiting more.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Efficiency vs Innovation
Nicely put.. In Innovation Excellence, which I find increasingly useful. I largely agree, though there are ways to think of how more innovation can be developed...
From My Biased Coin
Chernoff-Hoeffding Bounds for Markov Chains
We (Kai-Min Chung, Henry Lam, Zhenming Liu and myself) have a STACS paper on Chernoff-Hoeffding bounds for Markov chains (arxiv version here). Such bounds areLarge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
View of Coke Freestyle
A critical look at Coke Freestyle. We saw and followed this from the beginning. The criticism is premature. The acquired data will be the proof of its value.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Blinks
Data science skepticism, Steve Miller opines ... I don't think you'd get much argument from the data science community that the emerging field involves components...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Gaming is Changing Healthcare
A Three part post on how Gamification can change health care. An audacious idea? Surely health care should be kept serious? But the dynamics of the game can...
From Wild WebMink
OSI At FOSDEM
I’m pleased to say I’ll be delivering a short keynote at FOSDEM on February 4th at noon, explaining the new governance plans for the Open Source Initiative and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deeper Semantics Needed in Web Searxh
interesting examples about why Web search can work very poorly. There is little semantic understanding.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Launches Undergraduate Summer Research Listing Site
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is unveiling a new website today allowing researchers to advertise undergraduate summer research positions and students...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do we need patents?
Whenever I suggest that patents are harmful, people point to the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry is heavily regulated. Marketing a new drug...
From Schneier on Security
Time to Patch Your HP Printers
It's a serious vulnerability. Note that this is the research that was mistakenly reported as allowing hackers to set your printer on fire. Here's a list of all...
From Wild WebMink
MPL v2 As A Force For Unity
Mozilla released a new version of the Mozilla Public License this week. I think it’s a very positive development for open source globally – read why over on ComputerWorldUK...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kinect for FRC 2012
Tomorrow is the official kickoff for the FIRST Robotics Competition. One of the things that means is that today is a day of workshops at FIRST Place in Manchester...
From The Eponymous Pickle