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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
Brandwashed Review
Good balanced review of Martin Lindstrom's just published Brandwashed book. Emphasizes Lindstrom's insider view of the marketing world. I have mentioned his book here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Launching a New Product on Facebook
In Mashable: Good piece on using Facebook commercially. I have my doubts that it has a great influence specifically in new product launches. But where ever...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ZuluTime and Shopper Location
More on what the location based interaction innovator Zulutime is doing in retail. I am continuing to follow their work and will post my findings here. " ....
From Computational Complexity
Moneyball
I saw Moneyball over the weekend. This movie gives a fictionalized account of the how the general manager of the 2002 Oakland A's used the right kind of statistics...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Two 32-bit hash functions from a 64-bit hash function?
A few years ago, we worked on automatically removing boilerplate text from e-books taken from the Project Gutenberg. In this type of problem, you want to quickly...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 26
Budget issues should dominate what little time Congress intends to spend in town this week. September 26 Hearing: The House Science, Space and Technology Committee...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Krishna Kant, a Program Director in the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 September 2011
Autumn has technically arrived in New Hampshire. The leafs are starting to turn but the weather has stayed a bit unseasonably warm. Even still school is in full...
From Schneier on Security
Tor Arms Race
Iran blocks Tor, and Tor releases a workaround on the same day. How did the filter work technically? Tor tries to make its traffic look like a web browser talking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accent Monitoring
Some interesting disparate takes on accent neutralization efforts. Having been involved in several content analysis projects, this strikes very true. Different...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When a Market Fails
Useful thoughts here: Behavioral economist Dan Ariely discusses in a video chapter 8 from his excellent book: Upside of Irrationality. When a Market Fails: An...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Super Wi-Fi
In Technology Review: Will it live up to the expectations of increased range and capacity?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Relaxed Makes You Spend More
Relaxation and spending. " ... Why does relaxation turn us into spendthrifts? When we feel safe, we are better able to fully focus on the potential rewards at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unleashing the Power of Digital Signage
A book by Keith Kelsen I just discovered: Unleashing the Power of Digital Signage. This was a big topic of the retail innovation center. How do you successfully...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data is Scaling Analytics
It is clear that every enterprise is scaling up their gathering of data, and especially getting closer to real time acquisition. New sensors in everyone's pocket...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A History of the Emoticon
A Brief History of the Emoticon. The transferal of emotional hints remains an important and unsolved issue in electronic communications. I think it needs a further...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bookworm
A Bookworm interface for an open library. " ... Bookworm demonstrates a new way of interacting with the millions of recently digitized library books. The Harvard...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Sex Life of Deep-Sea Squid
There's evidence of indiscriminate fertilization in deep-sea squid. They mate with any other squid the encounter, male or female. This unusual behaviour, they...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Computer Science Education Act Introduced in Both Houses
Yesterday, Senator Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania) and Representative Jared Polis (D-Colorado) introduced legislation to strengthen computer science education in the...
From Schneier on Security