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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
Predicting the Future
Good thoughts from Brad Feld on predicting the future. Recall I have connected with and have discussed RecordedFuture here a number of times, which addresses a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CoinStar and DVDs in Retail
At the recent CFO Dimensions conference in Chicago I was able to interview a number of CFO participants for SAP's Innovation Exchange (IXN). One that I was particularly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking for Marketing Research
The enterprise spent many years experimenting with eyetracking methods. An early form of neuromarketing that originated in psychology departments. I am starting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayes Theorem Visualization
Pointed out to me. The classic example of breast cancer detection, often used as an example of using Bayes Theorem to produce non intuitive statistical results...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Mindhacks mentions an article in the NYTimes that I have not yet read, about advances in artificial intelligence. Recall we did early work in using AI applied...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Advances in Gesture Control
Integrated with software systems being made available today. A new example. Will this capability ultimately require the teaching of gesture control in the fineElliptic...
From Geeking with Greg
Code Maven and programming for teens
I recently launched Code Maven from Crunchzilla. It helps teens learn a little about what they can do if they learn more about programming. A lot of teenstry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Promise of Neuromarketing
I was involved with several neuromarketing tests, both inside and outside the enterprise. There were always very large expectations in play. These expectations...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Another Squid Comic
Another squid comic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“What Will the Future Be Like?”
This week’s episode of David Pogue’s PBS NOVA Science NOW explores the future that is being created by computer scientists: “The technologies that will transform...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Indoor Maps
Google provides more indoor floor maps. This is something they have been doing for some time. We examined it for use in retail. Now over 10,000 maps exist for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Physicists View of Our Technological Future
In the year 2100: " ... Dr. Michio Kaku, celebrity physicist who has written New York Times Bestselling books, Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the Future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM/DemandTec and New Partner Service
This is dated, but the application is interesting. Just brought to my attention by a colleague. We had looked at how competitive information could be integrated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Archimedes Bathtub
Recently started reading Archimedes Bathtub: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking, by David Perkins. Nicely done. Easily read. It includes a number of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bluebrain
Reverse engineering the human brain. Quite an idea,brought up a number of times, but I still don't quite see what we really know yet will make this possible for...
From Wild WebMink
Cause and Effect
Why do people take actions that actually make things worse as they attempt to solve complex problems? I was interviewed Monday for an upcoming documentary called...
From Schneier on Security
Preventing Catastrophic Threats
"Recommendations to Prevent Catastrophic Threats." Federation of American Scientists, 9 November 2012. It's twelve specific sets of recommendations for twelvethis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Commerce is Jumping
Thanksgiving sales are being driven through mobile rather than social. A look at the future? Driven by location, in other words anywhere, as opposed to social...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Rhodes Scholar Joy Buolamwini
This year’s CCC Thanksgiving feel-good story features Joy Buolamwini, a 2012 graduate of the Georgia Tech College of Computing who was recently named a 2013 Rhodes...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog