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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
Personalizing Discounts at Sams
An obvious but still rare play in the world of loyalty. Is this the way that loyalty programs will evolve? " ... Wal-Mart warehouse chain Sam's Club has introduced...
From Computational Complexity
STOC and EC and Complexity, Oh My
Tomorrow I'm off to Cambridge, MA for the 42nd Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), the 25th Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC) and the 11th Conference...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Maximizing Your Impact as a Researcher (guest post)
The greatest challenge for a researcher is to choose projects that have a good chance of delivering impact. Alain Désilets from NRC—co-author of VoiceGrip, Webitext...
From My Biased Coin
Will Google Buy ITA?
As long-time readers of the blog know, I am a fan of ITA software, the company with the fare-finding technology and search engine that powers Orbitz and several...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-04
EU plays catch-up with US digital economy There are some very worrying phrases in this legislative push, suggesting that the lobbying by big corporations to get...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart's Supply Chain
Good overview post on Wal-Mart's supply chain practices from Evan Schuman's StoreFrontBacktalk.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Face Recognition Methods
Some interesting new methodologies being debated by Google. Recognition of images is an area I have worked on for a number of years.
From My Biased Coin
What Work to Give Up?
I'm not yet sure how many hours a week being a Chair (oops, "Area Dean") will chew up, but I think it's safe to say it will be a non-trivial number. I'm generally...
From My Biased Coin
Bertinoro Day 3
Since I left, Andrew McGregor tool over and has posted a summary of day 3 on his polylogblog, which is also now added (at the top!) on the bloglist at the right...
From Computational Complexity
Conference Acceptance Rates
In the latest CACM, Jilin Chen and Joseph Konstan analyze data from the ACM DL and conclude that low-acceptance rate conference have papers with higher impact (more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Partners with Tobii
P&G is involved in a widespread rollout of understanding non-conscious consumer behavior: " ... Procter & Gamble has partnered with Swedish eye tracking technology...
From Schneier on Security
World War II Sabotage Field Manual
The OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual from 1944.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How Do We Choose Research Journals?
The publishing house Elsevier invited me to fill out a survey regarding their journals. As a reward, they gave me a glimpse at their statistics. The three most...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OSTP blogs about CCC!
“There is a variety of mechanisms through which the research community can participate in agenda-setting. One model I have found to be very valuable is exemplified...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CRV 2010, Teaching, and Good Presentations
Yesterday afternoon, I gave my first academic conference paper presentation. I have given talks at conferences before (including Grace Hopper), but they weren't...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing