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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
E-Books and Libraries
Good overview in ReadwriteWeb: More indications of if libraries will survive and what form they will take. Will they be in the Cloud with the rest of us? Or...
From Wild WebMink
? Coffee Time in Brazil
Just ending a relaxing Sunday with friends in Brazil, who have these coffee plants in their garden. It’s getting close to the time the berries need harvesting,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Computers Communicate Visually?
Visualization Viewpoint in IEEE Computing Now, If they can, can we do the same working with them?Can Computers Master the Art of Communication? A Focus on Visual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biologically Inspired Visual Search
And more about visual search. I worked on several projects in this area, and it is a difficult problem, though there have been advances in recent years." ... The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Similar Image Search
A good introduction to similar image search in Google, here applied to specific sites.
From Putting People First
Enchanted Objects: The next wave of the web
David Rose (LinkedIn), CEO of Vitality (where he works on healthy behavior change) and lecturer at MIT Media Lab (and former CEO of Ambient Devices), gave a talk...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do We Really Want Digital Textbooks?
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From Putting People First
What is Your Influence Score?
Imagine a world in which we are assigned a number that indicates how influential we are. This number would help determine whether you receive a job, a hotel-room...
From Putting People First
IBM reveals untapped mobile users of the future
Consumers have a growing appetite for health and wellness gadgets and this represents a burgeoning market opportunity for device manufacturers that has barely been...
From Putting People First
Activate 2011: Technology powered by people
Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS, reports on how Activate 2011, the one-day conference in London on technology and development, made clear it’s...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Adventures in NUI Part 1
Yesterday I was giving a career talk to a group from Year Up in Microsoft
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Seeing Gaming in a New Light: Games for Change Festival 2011
I just got back from New York City for my first visit to the Games for Change Festival. In its eighth year, this year
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Sock Monkey Meets Policy Man
Sock Monkey met Cameron Wilson, ACM Director of Public Policy, at a meeting Cameron organized for several of the organizations working on K12 learning standards...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Engagement Study
I am late to this but see the POPAI Shopper Engagement Study." ... Nearly 95% of decisions are made by the subconscious mind. Yet when it comes to understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chrome Book: Future or the Past
I asked for a review copy of the Google Chromebook. Still waiting. A sleek new concept of a laptop, which contains no disk drive and little memory. Supportin...
From CERIAS Blog
Bullies, Pirates and Lulz
Yet another breach of information has occurred, this time from the Arizona Department of Public Safety. A large amount of data about law enforcement operationsothers...
From Computational Complexity
Blog Redesign
We redesigned the blog to use the newest Blogger features. This lets me not have to maintain the 2002 html code we had before and lets us have some new features...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-06-25
JK Rowling reignites DRM debate (Wired UK) Fascinating use of power here by Rowling that has the potential to really change the eBook and DRM markets if others...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stupidity is Contageous
In the WSJ: People feel and act smart if the are shown examples of intelligence. If they can identify or compare themselves to the examples they see. But as...
From The Eponymous Pickle