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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
A candidate for a new Millenium Problem
In a prior post I wrote that the Erdos-Turan Conjecture should be a Millennium problem. Today I am going to (1) suggest a generalization of the Erdos-Turan Conjecture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bob Herbold's New Book and Blog
I have noted this before, but my boss at Procter & Gamble, Bob Herbold, was our SVP and later spent seven years as the Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft. He...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Health Problems
As we gather more data about health conditions, it is natural to look at the relationship over time between these sensory readings and conditions. And also the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Based Brain Scanning
Another interesting sensory application: " A team of researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have developed a portable EEG system powered byEmotive...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Fish Fly
How excited am I about the Partners in Learning Global Forum? I
From Wild WebMink
Think Before You Give!
Should You Donate To Open Source Projects? Donating money to your favourite open source project may not be the first thing you should do. Support the sources of...
From My Biased Coin
Set Competition
As an applied probability exercise, I had my class compute empirically the probability of a game failing on the nth round for the game of Set. (See my previous...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Games as a Great Starting Point
I'm always looking for new ways to start off my computer science and robotics classes. It used to be that every intro class started off with a "Hello World" program...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablets Likely to Come Out After Dark
New statistics reported on tablet use. I would agree, I often use tablets as a 'second screen' as an auxiliary information device for TV or Radio. Can that fact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation by Embracing Failure
In the WSJ: A friend sends me a good article on how companies are addressing risk aversion in edgy economic times. Includes mention of outright rewards for disclosed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Analytics for Legacy BI
Always interesting Doug Lautzenheiser discusses in his business intelligence blog the use of text analytics techniques to search code libraries in enterprises for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Fish Fly
How excited am I about the Partners in Learning Global Forum? I’m seriously thinking of taking vacation days and paying my own way to Washington DC to see if IInnovative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hotels Becoming More Social
As frequent travelers we participated in brainstorming sessions for several large hotel chains five years ago. We leveraged our expertise in in-context innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will Gaming and Advertising Overlap?
A response by two young CEOs in FastCompany. It has become a point of contention recently. My answer: In a way that they will produce value for companies.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Among Presidential Early Career Awardees
Yesterday, the White House named
From Schneier on Security
Problems with Mac OS X Lion Passwords
Seems like some dumb mistakes. News article.
From Putting People First
Low2No Camp: entrepreneurial ideas to activate Low2No vision
Article by Experientia collaborator Irene Cassarino, with additional input from Jan-Christoph Zoels. How do you create community services and business models...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson