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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
Social Media Campaigns
In Mashable, a good set of case studies of social media campaigns. " ... A great social marketing campaign can be hard to describe; sometimes it's better just...
From Schneier on Security
DHS Still Worried About Terrorists Using Internet Surveillance
Profound analysis from the Department of Homeland Security: Detailed video obtained through live Web-based camera feeds combined with street-level and direct overhead...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining in Financial Industry
Banks using data mining to answer marketing questions. Very large quantities of data are becoming available and mining methods are obvious approaches to synthesize...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Alpha Includes US Sales Data
I see that Wolfram Alpha has now included some US retail sales data. I admit it has been some time since I have played with WA. I much like the interface, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Flow Game
I was reminded of the Flow game in Daniel H. Pink's recent book: Drive: The Surprising Truth about what Motivates Us. (P. 118) by Jenova Chen and based on Csikszentmihalyi's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Being Careful About Examples
Yesterday I posted some very simple sample code. I have to admit that I spent a lot of time on some of the details but may not have spent enough on some of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data
Infoworld on the value of what is being called big data. Good piece for the enterprise to understand the implications of such data stores: " ... several pharmaceutical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sound and Taste
We did research on a number of sensory interactions in retail. In an interesting study, Unilever looks at the interaction of taste and sound. Have not seen a study...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disruptive Innovations in Retail Sector
From Sammy Haroon's innovation blog:Dis-ruptive Innovations - Technology in Retail Investment Sector The Financial Times published a well thought through analysis...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is MapReduce obsolete?
Last week, the Register announced that Google moved “away from MapReduce.”
From Schneier on Security
Highway Honeypot
Police set up a highway sign warning motorists that there are random stops for narcotics checks ahead, but actually search people who take the next exit.
From Putting People First
Eric von Hippel and 2.9 million British innovators
Ethan Zuckerman reports on yesterday’s Berkman Center lunch talk by Eric von Hippel, where he discussed what he called the
From Putting People First
On the importance of social interaction design for social startups
On his Gravity7 blog, Adrian Chan tries to convince startups and social application companies to embark on in-house social interaction design “The problem, as I...
From Putting People First
The impact of design ethnography and WordPress
Kristina Krause has recently finished a master’s degree in social anthropology at the University of Kent, with a thesis titled: The impact of design ethnography...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Specialized GMail Statistics
I have done some specialized statistics macros for my Gmail conversations, and now just discover a report on a Chrome extension that does just that. Very nice to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gender Discrimination in Graduate School
The numbers show clear gender discrimination in US Graduate school attendance. We are awaiting broad press coverage of this problem, government studies and remedial...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Letters Are There in The Alphabet?
You saw the title and a single number came to mind. If you are English speaking your probably thought
From Schneier on Security
Not Answering Questions at U.S. Customs
Interesting story: I was detained last night by federal authorities at San Francisco International Airport for refusing to answer questions about why I had travelled...
From The Eponymous Pickle