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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post December 6th 2010
Well it is Computer Science Education week. Are you doing anything at your school for it this week? I attended three different CSTA chapter meetings in the last...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Bayesian Networks
A very good overview article by Adnan Darwiche in the December Communications of the ACM: ... What are Bayesian networks and why are their applications growing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Games as an Advertising Frontier
Good article in Mashable/Business: Reasons Why Social Games Are the Next Advertising Frontier I do like the idea, but also think it is much harder to implement...
From Wild WebMink
? Now Accepting BitCoin
As an experiment, I’ve set up BitCoin on one of the systems here at Webmink Central. BitCoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency, with no central bank or authority...
From Putting People First
Cisco
The UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph profiles Cordell Ratzlaff, director of user-centred design at Cisco Systems, and fomer head of Apple
From The Eponymous Pickle
Physics Simulator using MS Surface: In Retail?
Remember Microsoft Surface? I barely do, and I saw a demonstration of it to show the dynamics of crowd interactions. I have rarely seen it mentioned beyond that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Card Trick and Data Compression
In Technology Review, a clever discovery: Card Trick Leads to New Bound on Data Compression A magician's card trick has prompted a mathematical re-evaluation of...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-12-05
Shopping-enabled Wikipedia Page on Amazon While the creative commons license that covers Wikipedia allows it, this attempt to divert traffic away from Wikipedia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iMotions Eyetracking Tool
A video on the IMotions eyetracking tool. More at their site. " ... To gain a new level of consumer insights to know how your customers perceive, behave and interact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Common Craft Explanatory Videos
My colleague Walter Riker (see his Ease of Blogging site) sends along a link to the site Common Craft. " ... little 3 minute videos for explanation on technology...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-12-04
Full Body Scanners: What's Next? definitive explanation from Bruce Schneier why the nude scanners at airports are a wate of money, and why the will always be accmpanied...
From Wild WebMink
Small Is Beautiful
On a whim I decided to go look for a domain name for my own link shortener. Within a few minutes I’d found that wmk.me was available, and even better that GoDaddy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPads in Academia
In CACM: Faculty innovators explore iPad use. I am still unconvinced that there are that many fundamental differences between say a small laptop and an iPad. ...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Species of Squid Discovered
New species of squid discovered in the Southern Indian Ocean.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Value of Smart Swarms
New book in the pile and now being read: The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making,. ...
From Schneier on Security
Football Match Fixing
Detecting fixed football (soccer) games. There is a certain buzz of expectation, because Oscar, one of the fraud analysts, has spotted a game he is sure has been...
From Wild WebMink
? Defending Wikileaks
Let me say up front that I am not a massive fan of WikiLeaks. It seems to me that taking stolen correspondence and publishing it for everyone to read is a fundamentally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smaller Devices Taking Over
In the NYT Bits column: Smartphones and Tablets to take over in 2011. There seems to be a rush towards mobile computing power, combined with sensors. Lots of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trends in Shopper Behavior
Progressive Grocer posts on some trends in shopper behavior. " ... Consumers today want value, are less likely to be loyal to one retailer and expect friendly...
From The Eponymous Pickle