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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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Bias of Convenient Study Choices
Always thought there was something wrong with using US college students for determining universal psychological facts about populations, except when determining...
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Computational Complexity and Games
From MIT, an interesting piece about representing the real world, always a good thing to think about. I never thought that game theory could accurately represent...
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Got a Stain? There's an IPhone App for That
I see that the Tide Stain Brain is now available as an IPhone App. This work has a long history at P&G and I had several involvements in the knowledge being delivered...
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Phone as Chemical Sensor
And an application proposed by NASA that converts an IPhone into a chemical sensor. Looks like a very rough mashup, but I much like the direction. Could something...
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What Google Knows About You
This is worthwhile for just general caution if you are into Google applications. ' ... Google may know more about you than your mother does. Got a problem with...
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Deep Data Dives
In the CACM, Discovering natural laws using massive amounts of data. Also called knowledge discovery, here with some new directions: ' ... Mining scientific...
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Retail Commission on Shopper Marketing
Am a bit late to this, but of interest:' ... As part of its ongoing Shopper Merchandising and Marketing leadership strategy, Coca-Cola North America (CCNA) is sponsoring...
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Wolfram Details Mathematica R&D
More from the 2009 International Mathematica User Conference: ' ... In this second video clip, Stephen gives a detailed description of what’s coming in the R&D...
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Bing and Wolfram Alpha
In what is a useful direction, Bing and Wolfram Alpha are collaborating. Google already does some of this by understanding some kinds of numerical dimensionality...
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US Destroying Manufacturing Jobs
You probably have one, a sink garbage disposer, many are made by Emerson Electric along with other electrical equipment. Emerson's CEO says the US Government is...
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Artistic Bar Codes
In FastCompany: Examples of using art embedded in standard barcodes. I have seen this before, but have yet to see it in the wild. Do shoppers pay attention to...
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Google's Open Source Go
Google has released its internally used open source language GO. Taking a look. And here. For rapid application development and scalability.
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Backing Out of Google
It was not too long ago that sites were falling over themselves to get found on search engines, and particularly on Google. Now an alternative strategy is popping...
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Emulating Neurons
Interesting Mindhacks summary of a piece on brain emulation on a chip in Discovery. We were closely involved in the whole topic of 'Artificial Neural Nets' back...
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Persuasive Technologies
FuturePundit on Persuasive Technologies. I am also reminded of Stanford's Persuasive Technology lab, who we worked with several times. And their blog.
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The Eternal Conference Call
Nick Carr on the Eternal Conference call. I think I am still on that call. Insights on asynchrony versus synchrony in communications. -
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Adoption of RFID
This issue has been on the table since at least 2000. Its such a good idea, so why isn't it taken up by everyone? The benefit studies have been done, the companies...
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Business Use of Twitter, Facebook Exploding
From CW: I am a bit surprised that these are seeing very widespread use. Article also covers some of the privacy and security watchouts. ' ... People using Twitter...
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Massively Complex Agent Environments
I am reposting this article from over a year ago to remind myself and readers of interesting work done in very large scale agent models. Here from Simulex, which...
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