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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 Putting People First
Identifying emerging trends at Nokia
Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, faces increasing competition from the likes of Apple and Google Android. Identifying emerging trends and building...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayes Methods and Manufacturing
Regret won't be able to attend this, is of technical interest:Directed Bayes with High-Level Data Applied in Manufacturing by Theodore T. Allen, Ph.D. Associate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Computing, Long Ago
When I first heard about cloud computing a few years ago I thought it sounded familiar. Central computing utilities. Well it is, as far back as 1965. Just didn't...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-29
No fiber please Seems the slow roll-out of fibre in the UK caused in no small part by an incredibly badly structured tax imposed...
From The Noisy Channel
Fun with Google, Bing, and Yahoo
Web search is a fiercely competitive space–as Google points out, “competition is just one click away“. In practice, I take that claim with a grain of salt–but I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and Business Intelligence
Good overview of what MSFT is up to in the business intelligence area for large companies, the whole article contains useful details: ' .. Microsoft has unveiled...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Down and Dirty Programming
I read John Harrison's recent blog asking the question whether students are good problem solvers or mimics and it made me consider my latest school experiment. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AT&T vs Verizon Visualization
It particularly attracted me because it dealt with maps and visualization of data. You have seen the ads if you watch any TV or use the Internet. Dueling mobile...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing in Neuromarketer
In Chiefmarketer, on neuromarketing. What the Human Brain Means to Your Campaign.-
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-28
EC reshuffle bumps Kroes out of antitrust seat It's more than a "reshuffle" - Baroso has built an entirely new structure for the...
From Wild WebMink
? Thanks For The Music
So you got through (or, if your not from the US, ignored) Thanksgiving and Black Friday, how about some free music? It's on my personal blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Black Friday Crashes
Evan Schuman reports on a number of e-commerce crashes in StoreFrontBackTalk. Not unexpected as we move online.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kitchen Computer 1969
I recently posted about a 'home system' being advertised by Verizon. Part of our innovation center research was to understand how specialized systems in a home...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redlaser Scanner Re-look
Redlaser has just issued an update for their IPhone barcode reader. They say it is faster than the previous version. I uploaded it and tested it on a dozen or so...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Run-length encoding (part 2)
(This is a follow-up to my previous blog post.) Any run-length encoding requires you to store the number of repetitions. In my example, AAABBBBBZWWK becomes 3A-5B...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signatures of Consciousness
In the Edge: Signatures of Consciousness. Very interesting progress: Stanislas Dehaene writes:' ... For the past twelve years my research team has been using...
From Schneier on Security
Fear and Public Perception
This 1996 interview with psychiatrist Robert DuPont was part of a Frontline program called "Nuclear Reaction." He's talking about the role fear plays in the perception...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching Computer Science Concepts
I developed the below material for a workshop I gave to computer science teaching assistants today on how to teach computer science concepts. The workshop washttp...
From Wild WebMink