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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Hundreds of Squid Wash Up on Southern California Beaches
Humboldt squid are washing up on beaches across Southern California. Seems like it's no big deal; the squid just swam too close to shore.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will the E-Book Kill the Footnote?
In the Sunday NYT. A breezy look at those old style sources of more information. I like the presence of more information. I prefer hyperlinks, but they only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
InferX
I had the opportunity to talk to InferX yesterday. A company that uses distributed data mining techniques to work on business analysis and fraud problems. From...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Indoor GPS
I looked at this topic for location applications in retail, and I see this article in Emerging Technology on a number of vendors in the area. I know there areZuluTime...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business of Certainty
In Fast Company:" ... Foresight Is 20/20: Predictive Analytics And The Business Of Certainty ... Want to make really smart decisions for your company? It's simple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ThinkVine and Marketing Mix Modeling
Local company ThinkVine, who I worked with in the Enterprise, sends along this press release on marketing mix technologies. Excellent work. Note the mentionThinkVine...
From Schneier on Security
Security Seals on Voting Machines
Related to this blog post from Wednesday, here's a paper that looks at security seals on voting machines. Andrew W. Appel, "Security Seals on Voting Machines:...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Be The Robot
One of the issues with computer science is that some people would rather move atoms than pixels. That is to say that virtual objects, even if they involve images...
From Wild WebMink
? Communities and Control
What community? If you’re interested in the Tizen project, take a look at Dave Neary’s well-founded scepticism. The whole project has the sound of a force-fit that...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: Visioning Proposals Due Oct. 14
A reminder that proposals responsive to the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) call for workshop programs that will define visions and agendas for exciting...
From Schneier on Security
FBI-Sponsored Backdoors
From a review of Susan Landau's Surveillance or Security?: To catch up with the new technologies of malfeasance, FBI director Robert Mueller traveled to Silicon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Priming With Lies
In MindHacks, the post mentions facial coding, which we experimented with: A beautifully recursive study has shown that viewing an episode of the psychology ofLie...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen Relates Buzz to TV Ratings
An interesting result. Yet not overly surprising to me. People who have lots of spare time? " ... Today Nielsen, the venerable measurement service, shed light...
From My Biased Coin
Goodbye to Steve Jobs
My Mac laptop froze today. It was an unusual occurrence; I turned the machine off, and for a minute it wouldn't turn back on again. I was in a panic. Then it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kodak Disrupted
Less than a decade ago we visited Kodak R&D and were impressed by their work with digital camera capabilities. It looked like they were making the transitionA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle Big Data Analytics Appliance
Continued competition, here from Oracle, to produce high speed appliances for big data. Shows the increasing need for business intelligence platforms. Note the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheapest Tablet
I followed the hundred dollar laptop project for years. Now we have the $35 tablet. Designed for the rural poor in India. " ... The computer, called Aakash, or...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computing Across Disciplines
I'm teaching two courses this term that have me thinking a lot about the ubiquity of computing across disciplines, and about the ever increasing need for young...