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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
Wal-Mart Movie Streams
After a considerable delay Wal-Mart is integrating its purchased movie streaming service Vudu into Walmart.com. Reported in some detail in e-Commerce Times. "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Film Festival
IEEE Spectrum presents: A Robot Film Festival. Nice selection that gives some hint at the future of robotics.
From Schneier on Security
Duplicating Physical Keys from Photographs (Sneakey)
In this demonstration, researchers photographed keys from 200 feet away and then made working copies. From the paper: The access control provided by a physical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Rise of Self Checkouts
A non technical article from Today. About the rise of self checkouts in retail. Also discusses the surprising removal of them from Albertsons stores, which I...
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HTML5 is Coming Fast
Most interesting, will it make Adobe's Flash irrelevant?" ,,, The tech industry
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Scholarship recipient wins Best Presentation Award
Congratulations to ACM-W travel scholarship recipient Tasneem Kaochar, University of Arizona, who received the Best Presentation Award at the IJCAI 2011 workshop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grapheur
Just taking a look at this relatively new data mining tool: Grapheur" ... The flexible and powerful Data Mining and Interactive Visualization tool. Import,...
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Best in Class: Cincinnati Consulting Consortium
Dick Bruder, of the CCC sends the following. I know a number of the executives who work for the CCC, impressive group:Did You Know?? ?P&G is consistently ranked...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-07-26
Scoop: Oracle scrubs site of embarrassing Java blog The Internet never forgets. (tags: Oracle Java Google Android) VLC and unwelcome redistributors A more detailed...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Calling for Sustainability-Related PIREs
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a new solicitation for Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE), a Foundation-wide program...
From Schneier on Security
iPhone Iris Scanning Technology
No indication about how well it works: The smartphone-based scanner, named Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System, or MORIS, is made by BI2 Technologies...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Encapsulation
My good friend Sam Stokes posted an introduction to Encapsulation not long ago. Not that I am competitive mind you but I thought I could do better. And since I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examples of Wearable Video
Here some examples of wearable video technology in Amazon. We looked at this for applications in retail.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Paradox of Common Sense
Another inspiration from SFI, Duncan Watts, who led us indirectly to things like Tremor. Here a new article leading to his forthcoming book on the connections...
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Swarm Intelligence
We were introduced to the concept of swarm intelligence by the Santa Fe Institute. Here they link to a video using the common example of ants. Individually simple...
From Schneier on Security
Revenge Effects of Too-Safe Playground Equipment
Sometimes too much security isn't good. After observing children on playgrounds in Norway, England and Australia, Dr. Sandseter identified six categories of risky...
From Computational Complexity
Why did 1+1=2 take Russell and Whitehead 300 pages?
In my post about the myth that Logicians are crazy I mentioned in passing that Whitehead and Russell spend 300 pages proving 1+1=2 (but were both sane). Two people...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 25
July 26 Hearing: The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity and critical infrastructure...
From Wild WebMink