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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
P&G's CoverGirl and Print Augmentation
Nice to see this happening. Especially taking this beyond the now dated approach of QR Codes. Note the mention of Blippar technology. Which they say is:" ......
From The Eponymous Pickle
Breakthrough 3D Scanner
In CIO Today: " ... The MakerBot Digitizer consists of a turntable with two lasers and a camera that can scan objects up to 8 inches in size. MakerBot says its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games Matter in the Progress of AI
In IBM Research News: We used a number of game approaches to teach AI. But business decisions are much harder than games. So games are pointers to AI, but rarely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bridging Divide Between Games and Brands
We looked at this very early on, but really want to see it work effectively. I think there is also value for the added dimension of data from social games ......
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Requests Public Comments on Accessibility Waiver for E-Readers
The FCC is accepting public comments on a request by the Coalition of E-Reader Manufacturers to exempt e-readers from accessibility requirements applicable to “advanced...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Provides Feedback on Non-Web Accessibility Guidelines
USACM submitted feedback to the W3C on the latest draft of the “WC3 Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies.” The proposed...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Research in How Squids Change Color
Interesting: Structural colors rely exclusively on the density and shape of the material rather than its chemical properties. The latest research from the UCSB...
From Schneier on Security
How Security Becomes Banal
Interesting paper: "The Banality of Security: The Curious Case of Surveillance Cameras," by Benjamin Goold, Ian Loader, and Angélica Thumala (full paper is behind...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A World Without Randomness
What if there were no coin flips? src. Leonid Levin has originated many great ideas in our field. Indeed he had a share with Stephen Cook in the idea of -completeness...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing Support for Windows 3.1
In SlashGear: Another indication of advances supporting remote manufacture. " ... What the team at Microsoft is doing this week is going through how users of...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Google's New Computer Science Teaching Fellows Program in South Carolina
In a couple of weeks, a team of Teaching Fellows from Google will begin leading various after-school computer science (CS) programs throughout the Charleston area...
From Wild WebMink
Ballmer to leave Microsoft
Honestly it’s about time and exactly what the company needs if it’s to get fixed. Let’s hope they get someone who will truly embrace open source rather than firewalling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New in Decision Analytics Talk
First descriptive slide for my upcoming talk on what's new in Decision Analytics. Comments? More to follow.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complex Global Supply Chains
In GigaOM: " ... Thanks to the growth of 3D printing, intelligent robots, and open-source hardware, tomorrow’s supply chains will be faster, smaller, cheaper,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Face Recognition Security Pins
I recently reported on the current state of face recognition. The most obvious use of all, why not use it as a pin for security? Too easily mimicked from images...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing Wall Sized Displays
We experimented with using large format displays in retail to create dynamic contexts that could be altered to match categories and times. Displaying on the walls...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Consumer Devices
Last weekend, a Texas couple apparently discovered that the electronic baby monitor in their children's bedroom had been hacked. According to a local TV station...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TurtleArt–Turtle Graphics With Blocks
I ran into an article called How to Pick Your First Programming Language at Help Kids Code that talked about something called TurtleArt. Now there wasn’t a lot...
From Putting People First
The UK’s Behavioural Design Lab
The UK’s Behavioural Design Lab is a new collaboration between Warwick Business School and the Design Council, uniting behavioural science with design-thinking....
From Putting People First