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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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Gordon Bell's Mylifebits
BW reviews the status of the work by Gordon Bell with MyLifebits. Inspired in part by Vennevar Bush's unimplemented Memex idea. We saw MyLifebits presented in its...
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Venture Capital Industry
Whats Really Happening to the Venture Capital Industry?. ' ... It is indeed quite likely that the venture industry is in the process of a very substantial reduction...
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Revealing Slant in Mathematica
Jilyan Landon of Mathematica points me to a post in the Wolfram Blog. There something as mundane as an error message gives a hint to how well integrated Mathematica...
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Internet at 40
I was pleased to have been involved in some of the early use of the Internet in the testing of remote Darpanet systems. It about to be 40 years old. CW makes some...
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Reboot Partners
Dean Debiase, formerly of TNS Media, has an interesting blog at Reboot Partners. ' ... which is a Strategic Execution and Market Expansion Advisory Group Helping...
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Cultivate Your Talkers
In Small Business Trends. ' ... People use social media for a lot of things. Personally, I use it to be as loud as I possibly can. I know that probably sounds bad...
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AnalyticsBridge
This newsletter and site were just brought to my attention. Created by Vincent Granville, his blog. Very good overview of predictive analytics, data mining, statistics...
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Collaboration Tools at Procter and Cisco
A good overview of the use of collaboration tools in big enterprises.. Object to combine the intellectual property of the entire enterprise. Mostly about the low...
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Most Important Math Problem of Our Time
In the CACM: The Status of the P Versus NP ProblemIt's one of the fundamental mathematical problems of our time, and its importance grows with the rise of powerful...
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Pressure to Limit Behavioral Targeting
Comments on a recent NY Times article. I see the point, this is a common startup direction. Clearly more balance needs to be had between targeting and privacy concerns...
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GMail Outage
I experienced the Gmail outage here in NYC yesterday. I agree with several pundits that there was no easy way to tell what was going on. Had to go to a number of...
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Wal-Mart E-Commerce Changes
Wal-Mart appears to be expanding and changing their e-commerce operational presence: E-Commerce says: ' ... Wal-Mart is taking a page from Amazon's playbook, partnering...
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AI a Dangerous Dream?
Interview with Noel Sharkey. The robotics expert, formerly a player in artificial intelligence, suggests that AI is a dangerous dream. I don't think it is a dream...
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Google Turning Over IP Addresses
Wikileaks says that Google is turning over information about the IP addresses of some of its users. The article says: ' ... Google has elected to keep extensive...
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Feeding Local News
If has been suggested that newspapers will survive by gathering and organizing local news and markets. I still get my local newspaper. Applications like FWix on...
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View Of German Processus Semantic Project
Mark Montgomery sends this along:" A video from ICE '08 on the German government/ SAP project that looks to be the closest competitor to Kyield I've seen to date...
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Cellphone Coupons
NYTimes on mobile coupons. They are a behind in knowing this idea exists. Yet reasonably good overview.
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Two Nostrils: Sensing and Competing
It is fairly obvious why we have two eyes and two ears. We use a form of triangulation to determine direction and distance. Models in the brain fit the data and...
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Four Technologies that are Reshaping BI
From Computerworld: 4 Technologies That Are Reshaping Business Intelligence: Next-generation BI is being formed by predictive analytics, real-time monitoring, in...
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