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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 Putting People First
How Big Brother’s going to peek into your connected home
The tech industry easily convinced the public to accept a myriad of free services for the price of some loss of privacy. But getting them to embrace the smart home...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Open Catalog of Resources
Brought to my attention, the DARPA open catalog, which links to available computational, analytical and visualization resources. Note mention of XDATA and Big"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocery and Twitter
Orlando Publix using Twitter. Good example of simple social media use in physical retail. " .... A year ago this month, Publix realized its customers were already...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Visual Organization
Forthcoming book brought to my attention, an idea we have frequently supported here. For example, see the following post. Look forward to a deeper examination...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Get to the Point and the Focus
A long time enterprise goal was to facilitate focus to tasks. Projects like P&G's Business Sphere, starting with earlier work in executive information systems,...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Black Versus White Boxes
What is better than how (?) History of filters source. Wilhelm Cauer was a German mathematician and engineer who worked in Göttingen and the US between the two...
From CERIAS Blog
You’re invited!
Four days -- two major events! The 15th Annual CERIAS Security Symposium Purdue University, March 26-27, 2014 We're living in a time of transition. Cyberthreats...
From CERIAS Blog
You’re invited!
Four days -- two major events! The 15th Annual CERIAS Security Symposium Purdue University, March 26-27, 2014 We're living in a time of transition. Cyberthreats...
From CERIAS Blog
You’re invited!
Four days -- two major events! The 15th Annual CERIAS Security Symposium Purdue University, March 26-27, 2014 We're living in a time of transition. Cyberthreats...
From CERIAS Blog
You’re invited!
Four days -- two major events! The 15th Annual CERIAS Security Symposium Purdue University, March 26-27, 2014 We're living in a time of transition. Cyberthreats...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IrezQ America Smartphone Sensors for Travel Safety
I see that my correspondent Art Caisse was the founder of and is now the executive chairman of IrezQ-America. The smartphone app automatically contacts emergency...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Expanding Paths to Online Grocery
Online grocers. An area we watched closely. It worked then, but selectively. Has the corner turned? Article contains some good current examples." ... As online...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Wikidata
In Computing Now. Introduced to the idea a year ago. Worth a further look. Using Wikipedia data for a centralized source of structured public data makes much...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real and Virtual Worlds and the Proteus Effect
I covered virtual worlds extensively in this blog in the past. In particular how they could be used to simulate real work interactions. See previous posts onon...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Radioactive Giant Squid Washes Ashore in California
Uh oh. And the real story. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Destructive Electronics
IBM win a contract to research the topic. I recall this idea being discussed before the need became more critical. " ... The military wants to use self-destructing...
From Schneier on Security
TRINITY: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: TRINITY (TS//SI//REL) TRINITY is a miniaturized digital core packaged in a...
From Schneier on Security
Another Fake NSA Codename Generator
Generate your own fake TAO implant. This is even more fun than the fake NSA program generator. Sadly, the NSA will probably use these to help develop their R&D...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Natural Language Processing in the Enterprise
We worked with Stanford on a number of natural language processing oriented problems, including the Talking Mr. Clean effort. I note that a number of the spin...
From The Eponymous Pickle