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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
Genetic Programming Book
We examined these methods in the enterprise. Publisher please send me a copy if you would like a full review in this blog. " ... you might like to know that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Hard Drives to be Extinct?
The comment is made in slashdot that the cost per solid state gigabyte will decrease to about fifty US cents by next year. Will this kill the hard drive? In the...
From Putting People First
The most popular phone in the world
To fully understand what’s wrong [with Nokia], we’ve got to understand what’s been right, or to put in another way, what’s distracted Nokia. Meet the most popular...
From Putting People First
Nokia Research touts 5 innovative mobile interfaces
Wired’s Gadget Lab posts five big ideas that are currently under development at Nokia Research Center that reveal some intriguing possibilities on how we will interact...
From Putting People First
When augmented reality hits the Internet of Things
Wired.co.uk contributor Anna Leach examines how augmented reality and The Internet of Things could impact each other in the coming years. “Both the Internet of...
From Putting People First
Usability inspection of digital libraries
Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low highlight findings from the usability inspection report conducted for the JISC-funded research project, Usability and Contemporary...
From Wild WebMink
? More Change
Wind of Change Florian Effenburger steps down as OpenOffice.org marketing project lead. He has always been the model of leadership in that role, patient, tolerant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creativity and Sadness
Does sadness make us more creative? In Wired/Frontal Cortex. My own informal innovation center observations would say otherwise, but this may depend more strongly on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Singularity Operating System
Technical but intriquing piece in CACM Microsoft's experimental operating system. The Singularity System Safe, modern programming languages let Microsoft rethink...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Hampshire TechFest 2010
I spent most of Saturday at the New Hampshire TechFest at Windham High School. NH Tech Fest is a Satellite Event of the USA Science and Engineering Festival which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loss Aversion
In Wired / Frontal Cortex: On the Allais paradox, or loss aversion in humans. One of the most well known and powerful concepts in neuroeconomics. With some excellent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyper Social Organization
Paul Gillin on Hyper social organizations:" ... I
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-23
Mike Shapiro Leaves Oracle Another of the key Solaris guys quits. A key figure in the development the ZFS storage appliance as well as of DTrace in Solaris kernel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Ways to Map Influence
In Fastcompany. An idea we also examined. How do you figure out where useful ideas come from? And why they sometimes do not have the influence you might expect...
From Schneier on Security
Steganography in the Longfin Inshore Squid
Really: While the notion that a few animals produce polarization signals and use them in communication is not new, M
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magazines on the iPad
A good piece on early experiments with publishing mags on the iPad. I see this an example of really fundamental change. Are we seeing the beginning of the new...
From Schneier on Security
Video Interview with Me from RSA Europe
I was interviewed this week at RSA Europe.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS Education Resources
Steve Cooper, Mehran Sahami, and Paulo Blickstein at Stanford University have a project about online repositories of computer science educational material and they...
From Putting People First
Smartphones are our new drug of choice
Smartphones’ sleek forms, tactile buttons, and blinking lights add up to a sort of game — and a perfect catalyst for compulsive behaviors, writes Shelley DuBois...
From The Eponymous Pickle