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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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Big Stick
I see that there is now a 256GB USB memory stick. Expensive, but things like this will drive the price of others down. Will allow us to lose increasing amounts...
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Brands, Games and Phones
In Adweek, good overview about how brands can be integrated into games on phones. This is something we examined starting a number of years ago. How do you take...
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Objects Hit Jupiter
Also not in the usual realm of this blog, but I am in a space mood tonight. It is clear that this kind of thing occurs more often than we thought. It also is an...
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How Powerful were the Apollo Computers?
With the anniversary underway, its fun to consider the power of the guidance and systems computers during the Apollo days. Very primitive indeed. My phone is far...
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Neuro Revolution Book
From the Lucid Systems blog, a short look at new book by Zack Lynch and Byron Laursen called The Neuro Revolution. To be released on July 21. Looks to be interesting...
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Cloned Dogs
Although a bit off the usual topic here, I find this interesting. Dogs cloned from trained dogs are being used in a drug sniffing test. If successful, this would...
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Social Networks Spill Your Secrets
Interesting piece on the security of social networks. And the full paper, Google authors.
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Self Service Wine Kiosks
In Storefronbacktalk: Pennsylvania looks at self service wine kiosks with face recognition and integrated breathalyzer. I like trying new integrated kiosk sensors...
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Keeping Track of Your Knowledge
Just took another look at TheBrain, a graphical means of storing and manipulating your knowledge. A form of mind-map. Jerry Michalski introduced me to it. Explored...
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Social Network for Researchers
Will Science 2.0 methods like these eliminate the need for research papers?
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Orwellian act Removes Orwell Books
Apparently a number of electronic books were removed remotely from Kindle book readers after they were bought and paid for. Included Orwell titles. Thats an advantage...
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Extracting Knowledge from the Web
In the enterprise we discovered how difficult it was to construct all the rules to provide the capabilities required for even a narrow slice of corporate knowledge...
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Contactless at Home Depot and Best Buy
At StorefrontBacktalk ... a good report on how contactless payment is progressing. Though I see the devices everywhere, it seems not as well as we were told just...
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SAS and Social Network Analysis
SAS announced a new product that does social network analysis (SNA). This is something we experimented with inside the enterprise, initially with plain old e-mail...
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Emotions in Virtual Characters
In ZDNet:" .. Spanish researchers have developed a computer model able to generate virtual faces which display emotions and moods according to personality traits...
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Do Web Sites Matter?
From Paul Gillin's Social Media Blog: Why Web Sites don't matter. He has some interesting points, but I disagree. I don't always want to engage with someone or...
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Faith in 140 Characters
In the NYT, some examples of religious groups using Twitter. They make an odd kind of implied assumption that faiths are different from other interactions among...
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SocialText Deploys Microblogging
Socialtext, which I have used inside the enterprise for wiki implementations, has now deployed a microblogging appliance capability, this is unbundled from their...
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Tracking Makes Life Easier
In AdAge, an article that makes the case that tracking benefits consumers and makes online life easier by not repeating the same message over and over. This is...
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