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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
Connecting the Dots in your Business
Tom Davenport in HBR blogs: How to "Connect the Dots" in Your Business, one of a series of interesting posts that examine integrating data. " ... In this post,...
From Schneier on Security
Scaring the Senate Intelligence Committee
This is unconscionable: At Tuesday's hearing, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked Mr. Blair...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Linkedin
Just substantially updated my Linkedin entry. For more about me and what I am up to. -
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM
Since I couldn't get myself to New York for WSDM, I asked my student Giorgos Zervas to report. This is his report from Thursday.-----------------------Greetings...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Are You Learning This Summer
No, really! Are you making your summer plans yet and do they include learning time? I have some ideas for you. First off is CS & IT run by CSTA. This is in my opinion...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-05
Lively Kernel Spun out to its own site, this project (a virtual machine kernel written in Javascript) is absolutely fascinating...
From Schneier on Security
World's Largest Data Collector Teams Up With Word's Largest Data Collector
Does anyone think this is a good idea? Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate...
From The Noisy Channel
WSDM 2010: Day 1
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today was the first day of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), held...
From The Noisy Channel
WSDM 2010: Day 1
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today was the first day of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), held...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biometrics Examined
Very good IEEE Computer Now issue on the general problem of using biometric methods for identification. ' ... This month, Computing Now explores biometrics
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Add Store Views
Google is apparently going to add 'store views' to its valuable 'street views', attached by location to its maps. More here. I am assuming with permission, but...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Peter Lee on the future of DARPA, and the Transformational Convergence Technology Office
Five months ago, Peter Lee took a leave of absence as Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University to begin a stint at DARPA as the Director...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper App Adds Barcode Scanner
Another development that brings the smartphone closer to everyday use as a sensor by the consumer. I recently reviewed the updates to the Redlaser scanner and found...
From My Biased Coin
Admissions Handling
I've been spending time on both graduate admissions and undergraduate admissions.For graduate admissions, we've moved to an all-electronic system; the applications...
From Computational Complexity
The more things change the more things change
There have been some articles on how much things have changed because of technology. One from the Washington Post Magazine, titled Going, Going, ..., Gone lists...
From Schneier on Security
Security and Function Creep
Security is rarely static. Technology changes both security systems and attackers. But there
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Facebook Development
One of the things that came up from the panel I was on last week (that panel has prompted a bunch of blog and Twitter posts already) was that students like relevant...
From The Noisy Channel
Report on the Third Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)
Note: this post will also appear on BLOG@CACM. It is my pleasure to report on the 3rd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010), a gathering of information...
From The Eponymous Pickle