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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 Schneier on Security
Behavioral Profiling at Airports
There's a long article in Nature on the practice: It remains unclear what the officers found anomalous about George's behaviour, and why he was detained. The TSA's...
From Wild WebMink
? Your Chance To Reform
The Open Source Initiative is ready for a refit, and it needs your help to make it happen.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Permanence of Social Data
How much should social network based strategies depend on data from the behavior of those sites? Evan Schuman writes about this in StoreFrontBacktalk. Most social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Carr vs Pinker
In Slashdot: Another look at the disagreement between the two Harvard associated thinkers Steven Pinker and David Carr. Does the availability of the Internet hurt...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Owns the Data Model?
This topic recently came up in a meeting/ From Information Management.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-13
The Onion Sports Introduction To World Cup Soccer Since the World Cup seems to be as inescapable as death and taxes, here's a vital guide to understanding its esoterica...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsico Makes a Call for Innovation
In Consumer Goods Technology:" ... A new program welcomes outside innovation into the organization to push its marketing and communications expertise to new levels...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mind Over Mass Media
Always interesting Steven Pinker writes an opinion piece in the NYT entitled Mind over Mass Media. ' ... NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the...
From My Biased Coin
Hectic Week, Finally Over!
Co-located conferences make for a hectic week! Again, my thanks to the Microsoft local arrangement team (especially Paul Oka) for setting up STOC, which I thought...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Blind to Change are We?
From the BBC, via Richard James. A good piece about how neuroscience and artificial intelligence have been exploring how our filters work and don't work when we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Auctioning History Update
Based on messages received I know that some of you have been following my auction technology thread. I wrote about the Cowan auction of Lincoln history. That auction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Education
Does this mean the commoditization of higher education? Once you have lots of training courses online, and a way to rate them AND a means to pay the teachers, will...
From The Eponymous Pickle