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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
Unilever Partners with Facebook for Safe Water
In Consumer Goods Technology: Safe water approaches seem to be coming popular for large consumer goods companies. Admirable effort, and the Facebook connection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Disappearing Checkout Lines
From Kioskmarketplace: This reminds me of the considerable work we did in our retail lab well before the emergence of the smartphone. Kiosks were the rage, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ideaconnection Blog
Check out the IdeaConnection blog. They are writing about Amway and Open Innovation. " ... Since 2005, global consumer goods company Amway has launched 17 high...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft and Fly Garage in Latin America
In Adage: Kraft doing innovation via Fly Garage for Latin America, with some similar goals to other innovation centers that I have worked with. " ... Making the...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Giants Known For Small Things
How small results can be extremely important By permission of Paul Helm, artist—source Johannes Brahms is one of the “Three B’s” of music, along with Johann Sebastian...
From Schneier on Security
Petition the U.S. Government to Force the TSA to Follow the Law
This is important: In July 2011, a federal appeals court ruled that the Transportation Security Administration had to conduct a notice-and-comment rulemaking on...
From Wild WebMink
Even The ITU Is Worried
A press release at the end of last week disclosed the ITU is worried about the epidemic of patent litigation and the abuse of RAND terms on patents by industry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Seeks Radical Data Analysis
I had long ago involvement with DARPA, and now am involved with a major proposal to them, they are building up their large scale data involvement. An example: ...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptanalyze the Agrippa Code
William Gibson's Grippa Code is available for cryptanalysis. Break the code, win a prize.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine: Crowdsourcing, Forecasting, Time series
The July-August Issue of Analytics Mag is out. Lots of useful coverage:Margit Zwemer from Kaggle.com, in this issue's cover story, introduces us to research as...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Facts about global warming that you should keep for yourself
I don’t get invited to parties very often. That is, in part, because I cultivate aggressively critical thinking. My wife will testify that I am doubter, an annoying...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Arati Prabhakar Named New DARPA Director
As our colleagues on CRA’s Policy Blog have just noted, it appears Arati Prabhakar
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Takes Inventory
In IEEE Spectrum: A whimsical robot takes inventory in a bookstore. " ... has bigger plans for the future, where "in-store robots might handle tasks such as...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NITRD Steering Group to Host Third Workshop on Wireless Spectrum R&D
The National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Physical Retailing: Magical Experience
GigaOM writes about showrooming, the increasing tendency of shoppers to experience a product at a store, and then buy it online or elsewhere by searching or scanning...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Tip Calculator Hands On Lab for Windows Phone
This is the basic instructions for the demo I did as part of the Mobile App Development throwdown at the CS & IT Conference July 10th, 2012, Open Visual Studio...
From Schneier on Security
Attacking Fences
From an article on the cocaine trade between Mexico and the U.S.: "They erect this fence," he said, "only to go out there a few days later and discover that these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Business Intelligence
Just brought to my attention again, the local consultancy Analysis Express, which talks Agile Business Intelligence. See also their blog: Their CEO Subrata Debnath...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Are You Here at CSIT?
The CSTA annual CS&IT conference began this morning and it looks as though it will be another spectacular two days of professional development for computer science...
From Schneier on Security