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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
Evernote Creates a Peeking Self Test App
A Clever idea. The Evernote note-taking system, which I use, has created a free app which uses the smart cover of the iPad to let you test yourself on information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence Database Management Systems
The following excellent Forrester technical report on agile BI methods: The Dawning of the Age of BI DBMS, by Boris Evelson.For Business Process Professionals ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
People Widget
Google Gmail People widget . Gives you background information about people you are interacting with. It's always good to have relevant context when you are communicating...
From Michael Nielsen
Quantum computing for the determined
I’ve posted to YouTube a series of 22 short videos giving an introduction to quantum computing. Here’s the first video: Below I list the remaining 21 videos, which...
From Schneier on Security
Two Good Rants
Patrick Gray on why we secretly love LulzSec, and Robert Cringely on why we openly hate RSA.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Institute for Mobile Markets Research
Just introduced to immr, the Institute for Mobile Markets Research. See their site for more: " .... immr is a research and consulting firm providing research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Micro Expression Decoder
Swiss startup rolls out this effort. Another example of determining true reactions of consumers in context. Experiments have shown these methods useful when allied...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IBM Researchers Create High-Speed Graphene Circuits
From a story published on The New York Times‘ website late yesterday: IBM researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an...
From Computational Complexity
Talks I Missed
The Complexity conference comes to a close today and I head back to Chicago. I tend to go to few talks, preferring hallway conversations, but occasionally I hear...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Tries Facebook Commerce
Another push forward for Facebook, and Procter gives an indication that Facebook can be a serious place for business. Includes 'shop' and 'shop now' buttons to...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-06-10
Music and film industries split over pirates My own conversations of late suggest that wiser minds (or rather, minds that can make the reptile see the difference...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Akamai Chief Scientist Talks Theory
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been
From Schneier on Security
New Airport Scanning Technology
Interesting: Iscon's patented, thermo-conductive technology combines infrared (IR) and heat transfer, for high-resolution imaging without using any radiation....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is Digital Literacy? And is it enough?
Someone on twitter sent out a link to an article/video from the BBC called Are children becoming 'digitally illiterate'? that got me thinking. What does it mean...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qwiki
Took a quick look at the new NYT supported iPad app magazine Qwiki. An overview. A simple location based magazine designed for easy consumption on the iPad. Very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Practices for Mobile Business Intelligence
Good piece in the Tableau blog. I would like some more whys rather than just best practices. Still this is a nice start to think about the watch outs. I am...
From Schneier on Security