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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
An App for an Airport
I reported previsously on developing specialized Apps for conferences. Here is another example of something similar: A specialized App for an airport, here San...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
For Your In-memory Databases, Do You Really Need an Index?
For large data sets on disk, indexes are often essential. However, if your data fits in RAM, indexes are often unnecessary. They may even be harmful. Consider a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computational Photography
A few interesting news stories in the past week: What is “Watson”? Word came on Tuesday that “Watson,” an IBM supercomputer system, will take on Ken Jennings and...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-12-20
The Document Foundation joins Open Invention Network Smart move here – by joining now, they gain access to all those patents belonging to Novell that will leave...
From Putting People First
Vodafone foresight on the world in 2020
Vodafone has launched its new futureagenda website that presents the results of a 12 month insight and foresight programme on the world in 2020. The project, which...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 December 2010
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Ontoprise
Brought to my attention and reviewing: Ontoprise. " ... is a leading independent software vendor for industry-proven Semantic Web infrastructure technologies and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Body Browser
Just took a look at the Google Body Browser Beta. It requires WebGL, such as that included in the new Chrome Beta. Other options at the link. Nicely done ......
From Wild WebMink
? Kinds Of Trust
USTR’s Request for Comments on ACTA Your holiday project: send USTR at least one comment on ACTA. If you need ideas, let me know… The Anonymous WikiLeaks protests...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Commerce Department and Federal Trade Commission Seek Guidance on Online Privacy
In the first half of December the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Commerce Department's Internet Policy Task Force (IPTF) each issued reports focused on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Car Networks
In MF Perry's blog on the natural emergence of markets: A car network that works from a smartphone: " ... "Request a car by telling Uber where you are. Text us...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ad Injection for Mobile Advertising
Recently in the Metaio Newsletter: " .... San Francisco / Munich, December 9th, 2010 - junaio, currently seen by many experts as the most advanced mobile Augmented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imaginary Dieting
Thinking about eating can be filling? Research ongoing in this space: In the NYT: Real Evidence for Diets That Are Just Imaginary
From Wild WebMink
? Strange Communion
I don’t think I’ll be able to get out to hear her performing live tomorrow evening in Winchester at The Tower, but I wanted to mention how much I have enjoyed Thea...
From My Biased Coin
End of Year Update from the Trenches (Area Dean News)
I last posted on Lance's blog about two months ago, so it seems a good time for an update.My class is (hooray!) finished. I've sent out grades to the students,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Word Lens Translation App
I have worked with machine translation in Google and also with high end translation systems. The result is never perfect. They can often but not always give you...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Prosthetic Tentacle
Impressive: Designed for a class project while getting her degree at the Industrial Design Department at the University of Washington, Kaylene Kau has not only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Lion IPhone App
In SupermarketNews: Always innovative Food Lion is promoting its new IPhone App with contests.
From The Eponymous Pickle