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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 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
Planning for Big Data
Good overview. Yes, as the article says, Big data is more than just about analytics. But I believe that everything has an analytical element. In most cases that...
From Computational Complexity
Starting the Year with Turing
This week I was in Boston for the Joint Math Meeting, a combined meeting of the AMS, MAA and a couple of other three-letter math societies with 7000 of my closest...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF to Hold Webinar on Smart Health & Wellbeing Program
As we’ve previously reported
From Schneier on Security
Improving the Security of Four-Digit PINs on Cell Phones
The author of this article notices that it's often easy to guess a cell phone PIN because of smudge marks on the screen. Those smudge marks indicate the four PIN...
From The Eponymous Pickle