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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 …
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Grand Challenges for Engineering
This blog post in Kurzweil AI reminded me of the Grand Challenges for Engineering. It lists them specifically. I remember reading about these years ago. The...
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Springer's Computer Science Reading Room
Springer Publishing has opened what they call a computer science reading room, nice idea. A Free Library of Computer Science Knowledge Inside the Computer Science...
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Repast Simphony
A recent project made me re-examine Repast: An Agent Simulation toolkit. For what is called Agent Based Simulation (ABM) Repast Simphony is a free and open source...
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Bayesian Truth Serum, Pluralistic Ignorance
I can remember just this occuring in a project in the enterprise, on pluralistic ignorance. I guess this calls for more transparency? .. It begins: " ... In social...
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Deleted Posts are Discoverable
An article about using deleted posts in social networking sites for legal proceedings, an interesting caution:" ... Deleted Facebook and MySpace Posts Are Discoverable...
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Google Cars Drive Themselves
This came out last week, Google cars driving themselves in traffic, with only occasional human intervention. Article in NYT Science. Now will you be able to...
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Augmented Reality App Travels in Time
Have always thought that a good augemented reality application should include details, in text and visually, of the history of a location. How much data actually...
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Standards in Neuromarketing
Duane Varan, who is leading the Advertising Research Foundation's initiative to develop standards, is interviewed on the form and need for standards in Neuromarketing...
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Smartphones Recognizing their Owners by Their Walk
A nice basically simple idea, use the accelerometers in most Smartphones as a low involvement means to recognize their owners. As they start to become more like...
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On the IFuture of Money
CW post on the future of money, reporting on a conference in Geneva and a presentation being given on the evolution of Smartphones being used for payment. A favorite...
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An Internet of Internal Organs
How about giving your heart and other organs their own IP address? In the CACM from New Scientist: Body Organs Can Send Status Updates to Your Cellphone.
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SaaS Sales Models
On varying sales models for software as a service ." ... One of the commonly accepted myths of the Software as a Service (SaaS) market and the broader cloud computing...
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Neurophone
It is inevitable that we see closer people-machine interfaces, what will the implications be? More interruptions than we have today? In Nick Carr's Roughtype:"New...
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Kotex Launch Driven by Social Media
A CPG case study of a new product launch" ... Kimberly-Clark and Organic collaborated on perhaps the most successful CPG launch of the year with the debut of U...
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My Body, My Data, My Health
Mark Montgomery of Kyield issues a post entitled: Americans must Unite: My Body, my Data, my Health. About the increasing complexity of the health care system. ...
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Bowls of Learning
From the Google research blog. An overview of a technical paper that talks about one of the fundamental aspects of artificial intelligence: Machine Learning. Google...
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When Automating Analytics Works
Fairly obvious paper, but useful thoughts. I think its always useful to think about where analytics exists within the process and considering its time dynamics. ...
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Deep Analytics
Had not heard of the term specifically before, but there is also deep analytics. I know what it is, practiced it for years, new term for me: " ... One term for...
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Closer to a National Digital Library
Was glad to see this item in educause, about a recent meeting concerning the establishment of a national digital library. I have followed this idea for a long...
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