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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
Interactive China Province Map
Mark Perry points to an excellent Economist interactive map of the Chinese provinces, their population, GDP, exports, etc. Useful data for modeling. Could have...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-25
UK Government defines open standards as royalty free Excellent move here, although of course the devil is in the details. The big problem with getting open source...
From Schneier on Security
HBGary and the Future of the IT Security Industry
This is a really good piece by Paul Roberts on Anonymous vs. HBGary: not the tactics or the politics, but what HBGary demonstrates about the IT security industry...
From Wild WebMink
? The Open Source Procurement Challenge
I am speaking at the ODF Plugfest here in the UK this morning, on the subject of the challenges facing the procurement of open source software by traditional enterprises...
From Putting People First
On the UX revolution coming up
Two articles in UX Magazine describe upcoming UX revolutions: data and the user interface. The UX of data By Scott Jenson / February 17th 2011 Data storage in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Governing Predictive Analytics
In Information Management, a short article, mostly common sense, but a good reminder of how to address an analytical problem. " .... Six Steps to Governing Analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID News Update
The RFID Journal is always a good place to go for the latest news on tagging things. Check out their useful and detailed news update.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dole Tests QR Codes
Good detailed example of the use of QR codes. Have mentioned them many times here. We tested their use in the aisle for locational 'check in': " ... It was a...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on Federal Trade Commission Online Privacy Report
On February 18th, USACM submitted comments in response to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) preliminary staff report concerning online privacy. Titled ?Protecting...
From Wild WebMink
? OBR Progress Report
The Open-By-Rule Benchmark I talked about recently has now had several workouts, and there are a number more under review ready for future posting. So far, it seems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Collaborative Business Intelligence
A general overview of architecture for BI: " ... In today
From The Eponymous Pickle
Email Overload is Intractable
In the HBR Blog. I agree. Even with filtering and careful examination, too much of it can slip through or simply gum up the works. So what can be done?
From Computational Complexity
What I Tweeted
Various thoughts not restricted to 140 characters. Congrats to Mihalis Yannakakis for his election into the National Academy of Engineering as well as new Sloan...
From Putting People First
Experientia at Ecobuild 2011 in London
Experientia will be taking part at Ecobuild 2011, March 1-3, in London, UK. Ecobuild is the world
From The Eponymous Pickle
Letting Your People Speak and Celebrate
Paul Gillin has an excellent piece in his blog where he uses the Watson-Jeopardy example at IBM to show how a company can celebrate an accomplishement publicly. ...
From Schneier on Security
Good Article About the Terrorist Non-Threat
From Reason: Know thy enemy is an ancient principle of warfare. And if America had heeded it, it might have refrained from a full-scale "war" on terrorism whose...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
FizzBuzz
Projects or exercises that lend themselves to many different “correct” solutions are just about the best sorts of learning experiences I can imagine. They really...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Plug-and-Play Macroscopes
From the ACM: Looking at complex data with visualization tools: " ... Decision making in science, industry, and politics, as well as in daily life, requires that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Education
Readwriteweb looks at the future of Open Education, and the tenth anniversary of the concept at MIT. " ... Over the past decade, MIT has shared its course materials...
From The Eponymous Pickle