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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
Google Talks Location Strategy
In Fast Company, well worth understanding: Marissa Mayer Talks Location Strategy: The longtime VP tells us how a simple call for a pizza delivery influences...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NLM:
The National Library of Medicine has announced a software development challenge, seeking innovative software applications that use the library’s vast and free biomedical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NearBuy Systems
Another example of location based interaction with retail and warehouse:" ... There are many business situations when you need to know
From Schneier on Security
Stolen Camera Finder
Here's a clever Web app that locates your stolen camera by searching the EXIF data on public photo databases for your camera's serial number.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Students To Create Their Own Business
One of the things that I tell students when I do career talks is that it has never been easier to start a software business than it is today. Many great companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fuzzy Look up In Excel
Something I could have used a long time ago, an add-in that does fuzzy look up in Excel. Thanks.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Business Intelligence from Tableau
I continue to be impressed by Tableau's easy to use BI system, now providing mobile solutions, and touch interaction:" ... Tableau 6.1 provides many new and exciting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why is Tesco Struggling in the US?
From the BBC: It is not quite so quick and easy as Tesco struggles in US. Some details.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Choosing Conference Sessions
The CS&IT Annual Conference is coming up and I am getting more excited all the time. As a computer science teacher, it's always been the best professional development...
From Schneier on Security
Extreme Authentication
Exactly how did they confirm it was Bin Laden's body? Officials compared the DNA of the person killed at the Abbottabad compound with the bin Laden "family DNA"...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Cup Submission Deadline is May 10th 2011
Just a reminder that the submission deadline for the Microsoft Kodu Cup is next week on May 10th, 2011. There is still time to create a new game with Kodu and...
From Computational Complexity
How has the STRUCTURES, OH- I mean CCC Conference changed: Lets look at the Call For Papers
Complexity theory has changed over the years. How to really track these things? One way is to look at the list of topics on the Call For papers for the CCC conference...
From Wild WebMink
? Interference
Canada still in copyright “hall of shame” according to the US The US interference in the copyright policies of other countries – in order to create a benefit for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SMI Gaze Ware
Another eye-tracking system, here from SMI Vision, brought to my attention that is worth looking at. Listening to the buzz in the enterprise there is increasing...
From Schneier on Security
Osama's Death Causes Spike in Suspicious Package Reports
It's not that the risk is greater, it's that the fear is greater. Data from New York: There were 10,566 reports of suspicious objects across the five boroughs...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Mid Atlantic Developer Expo is Coming!
This event looks interesting. If you are in the mid-Atlantic (say around Virginia) and interested in a local, reasonably prices and potentially seriously educational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Licensing Bar Code Scanning
Good piece in ReadWriteWeb on how ShopSavvy is successfully licensing capability to others, making the capability widely available on mobile. I have mentioned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Onions and Oil Prices
A colleague and I had a discussion about gasoline and oil pricing, and then I found this interesting post by M. J. Perry on Onions and Oil Pricing. What causes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five Big Brands Betting on Social Gaming
Good examples in Mashable of the current use of gaming by some big brands: "... Skeptics of social gaming for business purposes exist, but that
From The Eponymous Pickle