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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
Winn Dixie's Happy Meals for Adults
An interesting idea. The llink and full article contains lots of example images. Also seems quite complicated, and I think adult consumers might quickly be oversaturated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Continues to get more Affordable
A look at the continued and growing affordability of food. Despite criticisms, the agriculture system is remarkable. Also the effects of international trade.
From Schneier on Security
Cargo Security
The New York Times writes: "Despite the increased scrutiny of people and luggage on passenger planes since 9/11, there are far fewer safeguards for packages and...
From Wild WebMink
? Leveraging Community
Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted Very smart move (also covered at GigaOm) – Microsoft are trying to lead the race to the bottom with HTML 5,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Giant Squid
Interesting television program from UK Channel 4.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategic Process Improvement
Brad Power on the importance of improving strategic process in the HBR. I am further a believer in using simulation methods to understand these processes in great...
From Schneier on Security
Me at TED
Okay, it's not TED. It's one of the independent regional TED events: TEDxPSU. My talk was "Reconceptualizing Security," a condensation of the hour-long talk into...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Different Perspectives on Projection
I've been studying for my upcoming PhD comprehensive exams, and my major topic is computer graphics. Even though I haven't actually had the opportunity to take...
From Computational Complexity
Advice on getting connecting to the community (guest post by Daniel Apon)
(Guest Post by Daniel Apon.) As a follow up to the last post on Do Conferences Build Community? I offer some advice for people to get connected to the community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Tips for Social Customer Service
Good short piece in BusinessWeek. " .... Adding a social-media layer to your customer-service efforts doesn't have to take much time or energy, writes Pamela O'Hara...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast Paced Auctions with a Smartphone
I posted a while back that I have been helping Cowans Auction House, to improve their ontology and online presence. This week I tracked a historic Guns and Militaria...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Retailers Engage Tech Enabled Consumers
Interesting download-able report with registration: The Customer-centric Store 2010: How Retailers Engage Tech-enabled CustomersConsumers
From The Eponymous Pickle
More about the Tesco Scanning App
More detail about UK retailer Tesco using the Redlaser barcode scanning capability in their IPhone App, including some additional usage scenarios.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Free Tools for Teachers
Every so often I do a talk on various free software tools that Microsoft has available for teachers. The other day I did one such talk at the Mass CUE conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web is Reborn
Technology Review Magazine on how the Web will be Reborn. " ... The last decade expanded what we could do online, but the Web's basic programming couldn't keep...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Bionic Arm
Dean Kamen, of Segway fame, presents at TEDMed and demonstrates a new and improved prosthetic arm. Also a distribution deal for his water purifying machine. He...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Oracle Responds to JCP Concerns Exactly the sort of public statement that needs making, bravo. Let's hope there is a whole lot more of this and it stops being necessary...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected...
From Wild WebMink