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BI Falling Short
From The Eponymous Pickle

BI Falling Short

In the Forrester Blog:  On alternate points of view, and ultimately adaptive intelligence.  Intelligence, must almost by definition, be adaptive to new contexts...

Gaze Tracking with Glass
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gaze Tracking with Glass

Google patent that looks at this.  Is gaze tracking here the same as eye tracking?  " .... As proposed by Google, the system would track the eye movements of users...

From Computational Complexity

What are Galois Games?

How are math concepts named? After the people who was involved with it. Examples: The Cook-Levin Theorem, Goldbach Conjecture, Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse games, Banach...

"The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act"
From Schneier on Security

"The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act"

Orin Kerr envisions what the ECPA should look like today: Abstract: In 1986, Congress enacted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to regulate government...

Interesting Links 26 August 2013
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 26 August 2013

School started for me last week. I showed off some sample Kinect apps to most of my classes. For some it was to talk about human computer interaction. For others...

Google as Dictionary
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google as Dictionary

Further convenience for those that use Google for search: " ... From now on, Google's word search results will include synonyms, sample sentences, and some description...

Unified Environments for Big Data Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unified Environments for Big Data Analytics

A good piece by correspondent Bill Franks, whose book on the topic I previously reviewed.  It addresses some problems I am addressing in a project design  now"...

Pentagon as Silicon Value Incubator
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pentagon as Silicon Value Incubator

In the NYT:  Work by DARPA like the Darpanet and related activities have been happening for a long time.  Part of my graduate education was funded by DOD scholarships...

Online Account Deletion
From The Eponymous Pickle

Online Account Deletion

In Techcrunch, A service that allows you to delete yourself from many common online services.   There need to be more ways to clean up your online presence.  A...

A Mobile First View of Data Vizualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Mobile First View of Data Vizualization

A Bloomberg Video:  One of the founders of Roambi talk this strategy.  I tried it on the iPhone early on and was impressed what could be done.   I like in particular...

Uptech II Announces Second Round
From The Eponymous Pickle

Uptech II Announces Second Round

I am a big supporter of local startups and accelerators.  Have have been involved directly in three local startups and advised several others.  I see thatUptech...

Decisions, Data and Predictive Models: Conversations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Decisions, Data and Predictive Models: Conversations

Letting Data be Your Compass:  by Rob F. Walker. Nicely thought out piece on data, decisions and predictive models. Using the word prediction brings your models...

P&G's CoverGirl and Print Augmentation
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G's CoverGirl and Print Augmentation

Nice to see this happening.  Especially taking this beyond the now dated approach of QR Codes.  Note the mention of Blippar technology.  Which they say is:" ......

Breakthrough 3D Scanner
From The Eponymous Pickle

Breakthrough 3D Scanner

In CIO Today:   " ... The MakerBot Digitizer consists of a turntable with two lasers and a camera that can scan objects up to 8 inches in size. MakerBot says its...

Games Matter in the Progress of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Games Matter in the Progress of AI

In IBM Research News:  We used a number of game approaches to teach AI.  But business decisions are much harder than games.   So games are pointers to AI, but rarely...

Bridging Divide Between Games and Brands
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bridging Divide Between Games and Brands

We looked at this very early on, but really want to see it work effectively.   I think there is also value for the added dimension of data from social games ......

FCC Requests Public Comments on Accessibility Waiver for E-Readers
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

FCC Requests Public Comments on Accessibility Waiver for E-Readers

The FCC is accepting public comments on a request by the Coalition of E-Reader Manufacturers to exempt e-readers from accessibility requirements applicable to “advanced...

USACM Provides Feedback on Non-Web Accessibility Guidelines
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

USACM Provides Feedback on Non-Web Accessibility Guidelines

USACM submitted feedback to the W3C on the latest draft of the “WC3 Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies.” The proposed...

Friday Squid Blogging: New Research in How Squids Change Color
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: New Research in How Squids Change Color

Interesting: Structural colors rely exclusively on the density and shape of the material rather than its chemical properties. The latest research from the UCSB...

How Security Becomes Banal
From Schneier on Security

How Security Becomes Banal

Interesting paper: "The Banality of Security: The Curious Case of Surveillance Cameras," by Benjamin Goold, Ian Loader, and Angélica Thumala (full paper is behind...
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