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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
Learn from Old Spice
This received considerable publicity. Is it for everyone? Likely not, but it does indicate what can work: What Marketers Can Learn From the Old Spice 'Your Man'...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-27
The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the guily and the irresponsible. One of the long-running projects I had at Sun was to get the...
From Computational Complexity
Theory Journals
I got the following request from a reader. I have a question about TCS journals. As I am trying to follow your advice on being more diligent about journalizing...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2010: Bigger and Better than Ever!
Last Sunday was HCIR 2010, the Fourth Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, collocated...
From Apophenia
Regulating the Use of Social Media Data
If you were to walk into my office, I’d have a pretty descent sense of your gender, your age, your race, and other identity markers. My knowledge wouldn’t be perfect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Millenials
Paul Gillin deftly discusses Millenials Coming soon to a cubical near you. I see the same behavior in my millenial children.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Weak Link between Popularity and Influence
HP Researchers find only weak link between popularity and influence. " ... It is worth emphasizing that HP's studies are designed to the highest scientific standards...
From Computational Complexity
Cryptography if P = NP
Bill is at Barriers II in Princeton and promises a full report upon his return. Ask many computer scientists what happens if P = NP and you'll get the response...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-26
Jabber Support at WordPress.com This is outstanding; I can now have WordPress ping me when someone comments on my blog (as well as subscribing to other blogs to...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Deception in Conference Calls
Research paper: Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls, by David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina. Abstract: We estimate classification models...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Calls from GMail
You can now make free calls to within the US and Canada from GMail. And make international calls at a low rate. If you have a Google Voice phone number you can...
From Computational Complexity
***SORELLE*** PHD!!/Workshop on Boolean Threshold Functions/NSF program
Three annoucements (the last two I was asked to post) ANNOUCEMENT 1: Congrads to fellow blogger ***SORELLE*** who got her PhD recently. I was on her committee...
From Wild WebMink
? The Aggregator Is On
Just a reminder that, in addition to this blog, I still maintain an aggregator over at webmink.net which collects all the posts I make from various places. If you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone Location App for Meijer
A new location and promotion IPhone App for Meijer stores. I would much rather have one location standard for multiple stores. Another example of smartphone applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Achieving Marketplace 2.0
Tomorrow at 2 PM EDT: A free webinar on virtual e-procurement. Registration and more. I will attend and review.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Xerox Innovation
In HBR: How Xerox innovates with emerging markets brainpower.
From The Eponymous Pickle
AisleBuyer Eliminates Checkout Wait
An early collaboration between startup AisleBuyer and MagicBeans. Former colleage Andrew Paradies is the CEO. Previously mentioned here. Overall a very good idea...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Error Messages and Providing Information
The most interesting error message I ever saw read something like
From My Biased Coin