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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
DemandTec Blog
A few posts ago I mentioned work that DemandTec was doing with Sam's Club. I just noticed that DemandTec as a blog of interest. Recent posts cover issues in...
From Schneier on Security
Looking Backward at Terrorism
Nice essay on the danger of too much security: The great lie of the war on terror is not that we can sacrifice a little liberty for greater security. It is that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen Gathering Mobile Data
FastCompany article on how Nielsen is gathering data about mobile: " ... Nielsen Company, the group that has tracked and reported consumer information on radio...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Group Buying in the Grocery Store
Always interested in whats possible in the context of the grocery aisle. Now about Aisle50, group buying in the store. Is there also a gaming component to this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ready or Not
Well according to my Twitter feed a lot of schools in the US south are back to school. Teachers are reporting for duty and students are expected any day now. My...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Sign Up
58,000 have signed up so far for the upcoming free Stanford AI course. All about it and the rush to learn about artificial intelligence. We worked with Stanford...
From Schneier on Security
The Dilemma of Counterterrorism Policy
Any institution delegated with the task of preventing terrorism has a dilemma: they can either do their best to prevent terrorism, or they can do their best toA...
From Wild WebMink
HP Seems To Agree
Just a few hours after I posted my CWUK article, HP showed how much they agreed with my analysis by cancelling the TouchPad and putting WebOS on ice. Will they...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ready or Not–New School Year About To Start
Well according to my Twitter feed a lot of schools in the US south are back to school. Teachers are reporting for duty and students are expected any day now. My...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Augmented Reality
A detailed view of how Apple appears to be looking at augmented reality using a map + compass approach. Based on Apple patents, so it is unclear how this might...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hanging Out in Google+ For Business
An interesting example of how food innovators are using Google+ to interact with consumers. My first impression was that this might a useful way to link researchers...
From Schneier on Security
Steven Pinker on Terrorism
It's almost time for a deluge of "Ten Years After 9/11" essays. Here's Steven Pinker: The discrepancy between the panic generated by terrorism and the deaths...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Launches Sustainability Research Networks Competition
Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF)
From Computational Complexity
The Future of Universities
When AT&T had its monopoly, it could afford Bell Labs, a major research institution that bragged at having more Ph.D.s than any other university. Now very few companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Announces a Brain Chip
IBM has announced a new chip " ... an experimental computer chip that emulates the way the brain processes information. IBM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drug Vending Machines
Vending machines. Having seen them used to considerable effect in Japan, have always been interested in their application. Now they are vending drugs.
From Wild WebMink
? Is WebOS Android
Read about my discussion of WebOS with HP’s open source officer at OSCON, over on ComputerWorldUK now.
From Schneier on Security
New Attack on AES
"Biclique Cryptanalysis of the Full AES," by Andrey Bogdanov, Dmitry Khovratovich, and Christian Rechberger. Abstract. Since Rijndael was chosen as the Advanced...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson