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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
Crash Course in Google Analytics
Though I have now used Google Analytics for years, I have not spent enough time understanding it and its value and limitations in depth. Here is a pointer to more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Manufacturers Private
So is this a bow to private label? Will they become a developer-manufacturer-marketer of many goods for retailers?Procter & Gamble boosts bet on exclusive brands...
From The Noisy Channel
Off to Geneva for SIGIR
I’m flying to Geneva tonight to attend SIGIR. Hope to see some of you there! I’ll be back in a week and will post highlights and personal reactions.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-18
Oracle's Support for Open Source and Open Standards Looks like this is the canonical list of which open source projects matter to Oracle. Notable for what's missing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brains as Game Controllers
In the BBC: This idea has been around for some time, but does not appear to have taken hold. Here Emotiv claims to have developed neural game control headsets that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frito-Lay to Feature Ergonomic Checkout in its Innovation Center
This is new. I had thought there would be some complaints in self checkout, but the you always have to lift the heavy bags charcoal, or 24 packs of drnk out of...
From Wild WebMink
? On the term
I’ve been having a number of conversations in e-mail on the subject of open core business models. The problem that keeps coming up is that there are a range of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walking Around in Proteins
Walking inside your data. I had a conversation with a guy from IBM about this kind of approach. He implemented a data walkaround in Second Life.Virtual Reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Buys Metaweb
In GigaOM: Google makes a big semantic acquisiton, buys Metaweb. " ... San Francisco-based Metaweb was founded by the widely admired Thinking Machines founder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Momentum Builds
I have now used Tableau Software's easy to use data visualization system for several years for a number of projects. It's a good approach to explore if you plan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Symbol for the Rupee
Mark Perry reports on the development of a symbol for the Indian Rupee, from a competitive market for currency design.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Michael Osofsky on Innovation
Just brought to my attention: Michael Osofsky's blog musings on innovation, practice and theory. It is on my read.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
More Attendee Reflections on CS&IT
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From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Hawaiian Bobtail Squid
Symbiotic relationship between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and bioluminescent bacteria, with bonus security implications.
From Schneier on Security
Skype's Cryptography Reverse-Engineered
Someone claims to have reverse-engineered Skype's proprietary encryption protocols, and has published pieces of it. If the crypto is good, this is less of a big...
From Putting People First
Google knows your desires before you do
Google attempts to return relevant search results in the blink of an eye. But in future it could go one better, delivering search results to its users even before...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Little Orphan Computer Science
The never ending debate over where Computer Science fits in the curriculum continues. Mark Guzdial asks why computer science is not in the latest set of STEM standards...
From Computational Complexity
How I Find Homework Problems
What do you get out of this paragraph (from Charlie Stross' The Atrocity Archives via Daniel Lemire) The [Turing] theorem is a hack on discrete number theory that...
From My Biased Coin