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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
IPhone App Detects Snoring Patterns
Another example of Smartphone App as biometric sensor. Have been following these closely. Not sure how well this particular App works, but I like the idea. ...
From Schneier on Security
FBI Bugging Embassies in 1940
Old -- but recently released -- document discussing the bugging of the Russian embassy in 1940. The document also mentions bugging the embassies of France, Germany...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sweet Spots in Quantity Discounts
In Knowledge@Wharton, they discuss quantity discounts in stores like Costco, where big and multipacks rule. I have been a Costco member for years, but always wondered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cool Business Intelligence
From the upcoming TDWI World BI conference: Cool BI: Outlook, BI Search by Cindi HowsonIf you think BI tools have become a commodity, think again. If you think...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Top Ten Technology Trends for the Future
Carrie Gates of CA Labs gave a talk at this past weekend's Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing: "Technology Trends for the Future, and Their Implications." ...
From Wild WebMink
ForgeRock: Announcing OpenIDM
You’ll recall that we started ForgeRock near the start of 2010 to provide continuity for customers of Sun’s enterprise identity middleware products and from that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Find My Phone
A website that helps you find your phone. Guess how ... Precious.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crime Prediction Software
Shades of a movie I saw a while back: " ... Soon, people will be able to discover criminals long before they do any harm, with the help of new crime prediction...
From Schneier on Security
Firesheep
Firesheep is a new Firefox plugin that makes it easy for you to hijack other people's social network connections. Basically, Facebook authenticates clients with...
From Wild WebMink
DRM Is Toxic To Culture
It’s possible that you think that unauthorised use of copyrighted music, films and books is such a serious problem that it’s worth giving away a little of your...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup 2011 IT Challenge
Imagine Cup 2011 is the premier student technology competition. Inspired by the UN Millennium Development Goals, Imagine Cup encourages students to help
From Wild WebMink
Compliance
My essay on open source license compliance for end users is now available in the essays section.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Playstation Smartphone
Soon to be released, the Playstation, Android-based smartphone. In Engadget.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Who is going to need a database engine in 2020?
Given the Big Data phenomenon, you might think that everyone is becoming a database engineer. Unfortunately, writing a database engine is hard: Concurrency is difficult...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trimble Acquires Thingmagic
Thingmagic, out of MIT, was one of the first EPC RFID companies we worked with. Here a continued set of mergers in the RFID space. The RFID tracking world has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Keeping Retired Knowledge in the Game
I met with the management team at YourEncore today and was further impressed by their approaches, projects and future directions, so I thought I would repeat aYourEncore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Adds Barcode Scanner
Tesco has added a barcode scanner to its IPhone App. A short mention here, which mentions that this can be used at home to add items to a grocery list. This...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
SIGCSE 2011 Paper on My Computing Course for Non-Majors
I submitted a paper to this year's SIGCSE (ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) conference that didn't get in. The reviews were actually...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and Ampere Life Sciences
A brief WSJ piece about Unilever working with Ampere Life Sciences. Forrest Sawyer: He is also a co-founder of Ampere Life Sciences, a newly launched company developing...
From Computational Complexity