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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 Computational Complexity
Lincoln's Dog-Tail question (in honor of Presidents Day)
(Posted in Honor of Presidents Day.) The following is NOT a trick question; however, I have heard two different answers for it. How many legs would a dogPlay...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Senior Execs Should Know What Metadata Means
Good piece in SASCom Voices (Read it all at the link): ' ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Reopens Egypt Plants
Good to see them reopening, after being closed for two weeks, they supply other demand in the middle east. More.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Video Carts
A report on the use of a video cart that amuses children with videos while pitching products to the shopper based on their location. We looked at this idea briefly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 February 2011
I spent several days in New York City as part of the program committee for CSTA
From Wild WebMink
? Is GNOME Open-By-Rule?
Dave Neary has kindly agreed to supply data for an Open-By-Rule evaluation of the GNOME Project, which develops and maintains one of the two open source graphic...
From Computational Complexity
CCC 2011 papers- you heard it here first
The complexity papers for CCC 2011 are posted HERE. (They might not be at the official CCC site yet; however, I have permission to post here.) Kudos to Omer....
From The Eponymous Pickle
New in Electronic Shelf Labels
The Venture Lab reports on funding work they are doing with an Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) startup called Tagnetics. I had worked with the predecessor of this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dan Ariely in Praise of the Handshake
Good piece by Dan Ariely formerly posted in the HBR. The implications of contracts versus handshakes.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bias Against Creatives
Is there a bias against the quirkily creative, diversity in thinking, innovation because it does not fit into the enterprise narrative? I have seen it. More....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skill Sets for Information Worker
In Information Management: An evolving set of skills for the information worker. In today
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hummingbirds
A fully operational, hummingbird-like operational aircraft.: " ... The hand-made prototype aircraft has a wingspan of 16 centimeters (6.5 inches) tip-to-tip and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsors
As we’ve blogged in this space before, the CCC has sponsored a series of “research visions” sessions at computing research conferences over the past year — hoping...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing Watson the the Human Brain
Short, but mostly non technical CW article on the Jeopardy-Watson IBM supercomputer, comparing at least its organizational and logical size to the human brain. ...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-19
ForgeRock Shines on Sun's Legacy Identity – InternetNews.com Lovely overview of ForgeRock's first year in this interview with me from last week. (tags: ForgeRock...
From Putting People First
Book: Make It So
Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction A book in progress by Nathan Shedroff & Chris Noessel Publisher: Rosenfeld Media Anticipated publication...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revealing all the Ingredients
More examples of increasingly providing more detailed information about products:Clorox Reveals Chemicals You've Been Dumping on Your Floors, Counters, Commodes...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Research into Squid Hearing
Interesting: Squid can hear, scientists have confirmed. But they don't detect the changes in pressure associated with sound waves, like we do. They have another...
From Schneier on Security
Biometric Wallet
Not an electronic wallet, a physical one: Virtually indestructible, the dunhill Biometric Wallet will open only with touch of your fingerprint. It can be linked...
From The Eponymous Pickle