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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
MRI Lie Detectors
An article from Salon -- lots of interesting research. My previous blog post on the topic.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Abstraction At The Core of Computer Science
I spent the latter part of last week in Palo Alto, California working on the CS 2013 project. There are some pretty amazing people involved in this project (CS)...
From Wild WebMink
? Responding to the Bling Riots
First, let me say I think the inexplicable thuggery that’s going on in London (and elsewhere) is indefensible and the people doing it without respect for people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Opportunities for Small Retail Spaces
In Retail Traffic: " ... Nationwide, the size of food stores is going down
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Cola
We took at look at Coca-Cola's futuristic drink blending and delivery dispenser for some time. It is a classic case of late differentiation and tailoring a product...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Record Levels of P&G Ad Spending
In AdAge: Lots of interesting novel ad spending at P&G, including a connection with BlogHer and the online deoderant stand off. I guess brainless ad focusing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DemandTec and Sam's Club
New from DemandTec. We explored their capabilities seeking to better understand the relationship between assortment and profitability. Impressive approaches...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boredom Works
Scott Adams has evidence that it is boredom that will cause the creative act. And its incrasingly hard to be bored. In the WSJ, Registration required.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Location Based Marketing Ideas
I have been doing a survey of location based marketing and looking for tips and case studies, here is one that is simple but worth while. " ... While many merchants...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data
Information Management on devising a forward looking big data strategy. " ... In today
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Pick one: determinism or fairness
Computers changed our life drastically in the last few decades. Correspondingly, I view the world in terms of algorithms. When I think of how the government works...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Exploring Collaborative Opportunities for Students
Recently, Stephanie Hoeppner, CSTA Ohio Vice President, and I met with Dr. Rob Williams at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Fairborn, Ohio, to learn about...
From Computational Complexity
What is a simple function?
In my discrete Math course I asked the following question: For each of the following sequences find a simple function a(n) such that the sequence is a(1), a(2)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
20 Years Later,
In a Comment in the Aug. 4 issue of Nature — coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the public release of the World Wide Web –
From Schneier on Security
Business Week on The Cyberwar Arms Race
I've been using the phrase "arms race" to describe the world's militaries' rush into cyberspace for a couple of years now. Here's a good article on the topic that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 August 2011
I’m home for a while now. A month anyway. I’ve made 6 trips in the last 6 weeks and only one of them for vacation. So it will be nice to be home for a while. Maybe...
From Wild WebMink
OSCON Round-Up
My time in the US was all-consuming, as you may have noticed by the absence of posts for the last week. I’m ending the hiatus with a long review of OSCON – you’ll...
From The Noisy Channel
Retiring a Great Interview Problem
Interviewing software engineers is hard. Jeff Atwood bemoans how difficult it is to find candidates who can write code. The tech press sporadically publishes “best”...
From The Eponymous Pickle