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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
Lindstrom and Graphic US Cigarette Packaging
In the news this week word that the US is changing its Cigarette packaging to remove the text health warning and replacing them with graphic scare images. I was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine
Analytics Magazine, always interesting content in the process of improving business. Techniques, case studies, software, trends. The deep value proposition for...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Probabilities are unnecessary mathematical artifacts
There has been much philosophical debate about randomness. While people often offer the nature of consciousness as a fundamental unresolved question, we should...
From Computational Complexity
Creating an Email System at Cornell
Email celebrates its fortieth anniversary so let me tell the story of my job for three summers, and part-time during the academic year, while an undergrad at Cornell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Billion Users
Google got a billion unique users in May, eWeek reports. Our computer connectedness continues to grow.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Search for Jim Gray
A fascinating technical overview of the unsuccessful search for lost at sea computer scientist Jim Gray in 2007. I remember following the effort. There was no...
From Schneier on Security
Insider Attack Against M&A Information in Document Titles
Protecting against insiders is hard. Kluger and two accomplices -- a Wall Street trader and a mortgage broker -- allegedly stole and traded on material nonpublic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablet Use Surging
Adage: 12% of US users have a tablet like the iPad. Expected to double by next year. More useful statistics.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
More About
A couple weeks ago, I briefly noted in this space the June 9-10 US Ignite and GigU Workshops held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. The highlight...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
House Judiciary Committee Approves Patent Reform Bill; Full House May Consider it Soon
Patent reform is one of many issues that has been stalled in the halls of Congress over the last several years. However, this particular effort may get somewhere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How P&G Tripled its Innovation Success Rate
Article from the Harvard Business Review. Very well written and accurate. Only the first, less interesting, part of the article is free online: " ... How could...
From Schneier on Security
Did Reason Evolve as a Persuasion Tool?
Many of our informal security systems involve convincing others to do what we want them to. Here's a theory that says human reasoning evolved not as a tool tohere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG is Growing
Consumer packaged goods sector is growing and digital involvement is key.
From Michael Nielsen
Public talk about open science in San Francisco
I’m pleased to say that I’ll be giving a public talk about open science in San Francisco, next Wednesday, June 29, at 6pm. The talk is being hosted by the Public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience and Quantitative Research Webinar
Tomorrow, this looks to be of particular interest. Too little of this integration is done: Finding the Sweet Spot Between Neuroscience and Quantitative ResearchTHURSDAY...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
WATCH: Talking Trustworthy Computing
For those of you in the Washington, DC, area, the NSF is hosting
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emerging and Historical Perspectives
It comes to mind that this blog is about emerging technologies. Yet I often go back to my own and related enterprise experience and history. Examples, like AI...
From Wild WebMink