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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
What Does It Meant to be Published?
I don't remember what prompted it but about a month ago I tweetedYour paper might appear on Arxiv or ECCC, be widely read and even well cited. But don't think that...
From Wild WebMink
? Time Running Out
The Digital Economy Bill second reading is tomorrow in the UK. Take action now.
From My Biased Coin
NSF Review Issues
My understanding is that the turnaround time on NSF decisions should be approximately 6 months. (See, for instance, their own diagram of the review process.) ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 April 2010
Words matter. One set of words that come up in discussion are
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics as a Game Changer
In Forbes, a short article about how a number of companies are using predictive analytics to change the game. I again do not consider this to be very new, we did...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Information Retrieval
In the Noisy Channel: Information Retrieval using a Bayesian Model of Learning and Generalization. Well written, good piece with many instructional background links...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grand Unified Theory of AI
In MIT News, quite intriguing, though I don't quite understand how it can be applied immediately to real problems I am acquainted with. ' .. A new approach unites...
From The Noisy Channel
Guest Post: Information Retrieval Using a Bayesian Model of Learning and Generalization
Dinesh Vadhia, CEO and founder of “item search” company Xyggy, has been an active member of the Noisy Community for at least a year, and it is with pleasure that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best of TDWI: Business Intelligence
Best of a number of good articles on Business Intelligence from TDWI. I have mentioned a few of these before, here they all in one piece. The download does require...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Videotaping the Shipment
In StorefrontBackTalk: Discussion of an Amazon patent that videotapes a shipment box as it is filled and sealed. Then attaching a link to that video clip to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulated Car Racing
From the University of Wurzburg, simulated car demolition derby using artificial intelligence controllers. Still a believer that there is value in using gaming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Predicting Movie Box Office
Good overview of social media prediction opportunities, based on the HP social computing lab paper: Predicting the Future with Social Media. Of course a Twitter...
From My Biased Coin
Energy Sustainability
I spent an entertaining hour this afternoon listening to David MacKay of Cambridge (UK) give a talk about the Future of Energy here at Harvard. I've mentionedAmazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watching You Read
In the NYT: Theory of Mind and brain scanning, applied to fiction. Literary scholars turn to science.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magnets and Minds
From a friend. I agree this is scary. it is inevitable that as we know more about the functionality of the brain this kind of manipulation will have to be closely...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Everything Is Changing in CS Education
There seems to be a lot of agreement that we need to change the way we teach computer science, especially at the pre-collegiate level. Not complete unanimity of...
From Schneier on Security
iPhone Secret Decoder Ring
It'll protect your secrets from your kid sister, unless she's smarter than that. Looks cool, though.
From The Eponymous Pickle