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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
OneRiot Joins WalMart Labs
In a new development., in Techcrunch. Also see OneRiot's Blog. " ... Walmart has acquired OneRiot, a mobile and social ad targeting startup. Financial terms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Products for an Internet of Things
In GigaOM. I have observed quite a bit of product design, and except for slapping a standard bar code on an item, and testing that code with a number of hand scanners...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Perspectives Seminar
I attended the IBM/SPSS seminar today. Jason Verlen, Director of IBM/SPSS gave the keynote address that well positioned the use of predictive techniques in business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and Specialized Analytics Appliances
An interesting development. A number of such applications are addressing real time applications that gather large amounts of information.SAP rolls out new in-memory...
From Schneier on Security
Human Pattern-Matching Failures in Airport Screening
I've written about this before: the human brain just isn't suited to finding rare anomalies in a screening situation. The Role of the Human Operator in Image-Based...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
You Think That Users are Faceless Objects? You are Obsolete!
IT departments fail us because they are founded on the technocratic imperative. Users are faceless objects for which the system is designed (Iivari et al., 2009)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF/CISE to Hold Sustainability Webinars
As we’ve previously reported in this space, the National Science Foundation (NSF)
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Standing-Room Only at a VLDB Challenges & Visions Session
Attendees of the 37th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2011)
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is an app?
In the Mobile Game Design and Mobile App Design categories of the NFTE World Series of Innovation students are asked to design an app or a game for a mobile device...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is an app?
In the Mobile Game Design and Mobile App Design categories of the NFTE World Series of Innovation students are asked to design an app or a game for a mobile device...
From Schneier on Security
Risk Perception and Terrorism
I've been posting about a lot of academic articles of late, because that's what I'm reading. Here's another. Clinton M. Jenkin (2006), Risk Perception and Terrorism...
From Wild WebMink
? Whitacre Concert
If you were blissed-out by the amazingly beautiful choral music I linked to on Bank Holiday Monday, and if you happen to live within reach of London, you will definitely...
From Putting People First
Dan Lockton on how architecture and urbanism can be used to influence behaviour
Dan Lockton is continuing publishing extracts from his Brunel University Ph.D thesis
From Putting People First
What
When we talk about customer or user experience in the financial services arena, what do we actually mean? The understanding of banks and banking is not a straightforward...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Many Pages on the Internet
I like numbers. Have heard many estimates over the years. Billions at first. Trillions some say. Now a new effort is underway to estimate the size of the net...
From My Biased Coin
Rabin's Birthday Celebration
While I was not blogging, we spent the few days before the semester started with an 80th birthday workshop for Michael Rabin. Impressively, we were able to pull...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's Watson Does Diagnoses
Another piece about uses for the IBM Watson Computer. Once again, patient diagnosis was an early application for artificial intelligence. In particular pulmonary...
From Apophenia
Guilt Through Algorithmic Association
You’re a 16-year-old Muslim kid in America. Say your name is Mohammad Abdullah. Your schoolmates are convinced that you’re a terrorist. They keep typing in Google...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Makes a Workshop Work?
This past summer marked the addition of a full day of workshops to the CS&IT Symposium. More than 120 individuals attended morning and afternoon sessions on a...
From The Eponymous Pickle