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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
Household Robotics in Japan
An area we looked at closely. Aiming to include in home-of-the-future applications. An aging population may need many help-mate robots in the future. Japan is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Knowledge from Incident Reports
Creating knowledge from events. It is like fitting a line through a number of points. Very valuable, but needs to be carefully done. We experimented with after-action...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Does a Computer Scientist Look Like?
Career and Technical Education exposed me to the field of computing. I joined two organizations in high school that changed my life. My participation in FBLA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Internet Architecture
From the CACM: On the future architecture of the Internet. Should it evolve or should we wipe the slate clean?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flying Drones into a Hurricane
We are gaining an increasing knowledge of 3D Space. The obvious examples are military, but I am glad to see that drones are starting to be applied in the air to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NCR Deli Ordering Systems at Big Y
We experimented with kiosk based deli ordering systems in our store innovation spaces. It's an obvious application rather than having people stand in line. IBMHere...
From Putting People First
The future of screen technology
TAT, a Swedish software technology and mobile interface design company, recently ran a two-week open innovation experiment, during which they collaborate with the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Postage Stamp
In the UK the Royal Mail has launched the first 'smart stamp'. More at the BBC. It utilizes the Junaio system on a smartphone (which is required to see the effect)...
From Computational Complexity
CS Happenings
Yesterday I was at a meeting of the CCC Council, add in a couple of emails and I have lots of short notes on CS stuff. In these meetings I get to hear about CS...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-03
Does the Fate of OpenSolaris Tell Us Where Unix Is Headed? No, I don't think so. But it does liberate Illumos. I coined a new law yesterday – "For every epic fail...
From Wild WebMink
? Gosling Webcast
Next week JavaZone, the conference that brought you Lady Java and Java Forever will be held in Norway. To celebrate the opening of the new ForgeRock Norway office...
From Schneier on Security
UAE Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against SSL
Interesting: Who are these certificate authorities? At the beginning of Web history, there were only a handful of companies, like Verisign, Equifax, and Thawte...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Students And Intellectual Property Rights
Earlier this week a friend sent me a couple of links to articles on intellectual property and students. One was about piracy (Future Tense: Piracy Revisited) and...
From Wild WebMink
H.264 Is Not The Sort Of Free That Matters
At the end of last week, the MPEG-LA consortium announced they were extending the arrangement whereby they allow ‘web uses’ of the patents reading on the H.264...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Predictive Analytics
SAS has rolled out predictive analytics for business users. " ... a new toolset aimed at giving business users the ability to work with predictive analytics....
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Tesco Trials Drive Through Supermarket
Long time readers of this blog will remember that we examined this topic sometime ago and talked to the group building a system in the US: Autocart. Now Tesco announces...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MHealth Summit
Upcoming, the summit on Mobile health, it turns out that Mobile health means two different things:" ... The National Institutes of Health to Lead 2 of 7 Concurrent...
From Schneier on Security