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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
Grow from Within
Grow from Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation by Robert Wolcott and Michael Lippitz. Now on my stack of things to read. Recently heard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using R for Big Data
Some excellent examples of the use of the Statistical/visualization/data mining language R for a number of real applications. Have started to use it more myself...
From Computational Complexity
Next in the sequence
When I posted on sequence problems here some people said that they did not have unique answers. Many problems FORMALLY do not have a unique answer, but common sense...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics for Neuromarketing
In Mediapost: More must be more done to quantify how neuromarketing results are used. What are useful metrics?
From Geeking with Greg
Blending machines and humans to get very high accuracy
A paper by six Googlers from the recent KDD 2011 conference, "Detecting Adversarial Advertisements in the Wild" (PDF) is a broadly useful example of how to succeed...
From Schneier on Security
The Legality of Government Critical Infrastructure Monitoring
Mason Rice, Robert Miller, and Sujeet Shenoi (2011), "May the US Government Monitor Private Critical Infrastructure Assets to Combat Foreign Cyberspace Threats?...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Game Papers at SIGGRAPH 2011 (Part 1 of 2)
Following up on my general impressions of SIGGRAPH I wanted to write about a few of the games paper presentations I enjoyed seeing at the conference. I paid most...
From Schneier on Security
Outing a CIA Agent
Interesting article on how difficult it is to keep an identity secret in the information age.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone Mango Jump Start Workshop Now On Video
IF you missed it live (like I did) you can now view the recording of the Windows Phone Mango Jump Start training on Channel 9. I borrowed these direct links from...
From Putting People First
Stanford U: Introduction to human-computer interaction design
Through Stanford University lectures and a project, coordinated by Scott Klemmer, learn the fundamentals of human-computer interaction and design thinking. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brandwashed Videos
A couple of videos sent to me that illustrate the topics in Martin Lindstrom's forthcoming book: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links September 6 2011
Labor Day in the US means a three-day weekend and I took advantage of it. I’d like to make note of a couple of my recent posts that seem to have more in common...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fundamentals of Information Management
Thoughtful piece, a great place to start thinking about why you should manage information at all:The Path to Information Management NirvanaSimilar to Maslow
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peer Index Marketing
In GigaOM. "Marketers have long believed that some customers have a disproportionate influence on others when it comes to purchase decisions, and they have tried...
From Schneier on Security
Optimizing Airport Security
New research: Adrian J. Lee and Sheldon H. Jacobson (2011), "The Impact of Aviation Checkpoint Queues on Optimizing Security Screening Effectiveness," Reliability...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Did You Do This Summer?
Well, it's back to school time and most of us have done some professional development over the summer to rejuvenate and enhance what we are doing in the classroom...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science is self-regulatory
Many systems are self-regulatory. For example, in a few market, prices will fluctuate until everyone gets a fair price. But free markets are a mathematical abstraction...
From Computational Complexity
Knowing some History is a good thing- Why?
(FOCS registration is open: here. Note that there are tutorials on Sat Oct 22 and the conference talks are Sun Oct 23-Tues Oct 25.) (Guest post by By Jeffery...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 6
Congress has returned from its August recess. The Fiscal Year 2012 budget should be high on the agenda, as that year starts October 1. September 7 Hearing The Senate...
From Schneier on Security