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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
USPTO Seeking Text Recognition, Image Analysis Algorithms
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), together with the recently created
From The Eponymous Pickle
Silicon Halton
Chris Herbert of Mi6 Agency sends along this news article about Silicon Halton near Toronto. Startups via social connections. How can social connections be best...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paywall Penalties
In GigaOm: A good piece on the increasing use of Paywalls on the Web. Should we be penalizing the loyalty of customers while we are exposing them to paying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence Mind Map
A business intelligence mind map that covers most of the territory typically included in BI and its implications. Informative.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Big Data Bet, with Watson and More.
Another step forward for big and bigger data:" On the same day that IBM passed Microsoft in market cap, Big Blue showed how it will ride the growth of big data...
From Schneier on Security
Multiple Protocol Attacks
In 1997, I wrote about something called a chosen-protocol attack, where an attacker can use one protocol to break another. Here's an example of the same thing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS AP Principles
A number of universities around the US are piloting courses to fit the proposed Advanced Placement CS Principles course. At the University of Washington Bothell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
10X Accelerator at Ohio State
Just brought to my attention: 10-xelerator or "10x" is the newest New Venture Accelerator in Columbus, Ohio. 10x is a mentorship-driven investment program designed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers With Mind Control Soon
In IBM's A Smarterplanet Blog: They predict a number of expected things. One is that mind control will take over a number of computer interfaces such as cursor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Online
In GigaOM: A revision of their previous online course system. " ... Next spring, MIT will launch a pilot of MITx online-only courses geared to reach prospective...
From Schneier on Security
How to Open a Padlock with a Coke Can
A nice tutorial on making and using shims to open padlocks.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Compressing document-oriented databases by rewriting your documents
The space utilization of relational databases can be estimated quickly. If you create a table made of three columns, each containing an integer, you can expect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Spices at McCormick
Cooking is a strong side interest of mine. I see in MediaPost they describe how the McCormick spice company is trying some new social plays on Facebook. It is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IE Group
Just brought to my attention: " ... IE Group. IEG - The Innovation Enterprise Group shares the knowledge of innovators in Forecasting & Planning through its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and the Cloud
When I was a fellow at the SNCR we saw a presentation by SAP about their planned use of social and Cloud systems. It was an impressive plan for next steps. ComputerWorld...
From Computational Complexity
Romney vs. Aaronson
How are Mitt Romney and Scott Aaronson similar? Different? Similarities: Both live in Massachusetts. Actually, Scott lives there but its not clear where Mitt...
From Schneier on Security
Plasmonics Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
This could be interesting: NOtES exploits an obscure area of physics to accomplish its bright and sharp display, known as plasmonics. Light waves interact with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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From The Eponymous Pickle