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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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Productivity in the Modern Office
A very good Wharton article on the measurement of productivity in the current world of knowledge workers. I have lived through this age, and have many times seen...
From Schneier on Security
The Economist on Guantanamo
Maybe the tide is turning: America is in a hole. The last response of the blowhards and cowards who have put it there is always: "So what would you do: set them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Brain and the New AI
In Wired: Neuro artificial intelligence? " ... The idea arises from experiments suggesting that the portion of your brain dedicated to processing sound from your...
From Geeking with Greg
Blogging is dead, but have we fixed anything?
Google Reader is shutting down, but most people moved on long ago. Blogging is dead. To the extent that it lives, it is dominated by professional journalists,...
From Schneier on Security
Reidentifying Anonymous Data
Latanya Sweeney has demonstrated how easy it can be to identify people from their birth date, gender, and zip code. The anonymous data she reidentified happened...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Mobile in Retail
In Mobile Marketer: Quite an interesting experiment. Note the scanning of the QR code and the building of a mobile database for future use. Data mining is an...
From Putting People First
Interviewing Users book – Special offers for Putting People First readers
A few weeks ago, I announced Interviewing Users, the new book by Steve Portigal published by Rosenfeld Media. It is now available for purchase, both in print and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantified Self
Stephen Wolfram talks about his approach to personal analytics. Based on the quantified self. Something I have also done over the years, but very selectively....
From The Eponymous Pickle
And Google at 15
Another surprising anniversary to me, Google at 15. I have remarked about those of Web Pages(20) and Linkedin (10). The small numbers still amaze me. I do remember...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Management for Expertise Location
Thinking broadly, all data use and leverage is about knowledge management. This article surveys what companies are doing in particular for expertise location with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HiPerGator
A classmate points out a link to new supercomputer work at an Alma Mater of mine.
From Schneier on Security
Evacuation Alerts at the Airport
Last week, an employee error caused the monitors at LAX to display a building evacuation order: At a little before 9:47 p.m., the message read: "An emergency has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Invisibility Cloaks
In GigaOM: This topic sounds like one of those weird science things that are probably most suited to military stealth applications. With memories of Claude Rains...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visualization–can you see it in your head?
I had dinner tonight with several computer science professors. The topic of conversation turned to the question of “can everyone learn to program?” One professor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sentiment Analysis from SAP
Also had not realized SAP was into sentiment analysis. An overview via an interview here. " ... SearchSAP spoke to Sameer Patel, global vice president and general...
From Schneier on Security
Is the U.S. Government Recording and Saving All Domestic Telephone Calls?
I have no idea if "former counterterrorism agent for the FBI" Tom Clemente knows what he's talking about, but that's certainly what he implies here: More recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Effective Analytics
Good article about the idea. Summarized by linking to executive champions and truly understanding where the analytics intersects with decision process.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gap Analysis Paper
New from Tom Ritchey:For those who are interested in computer-aided GAP Analysis – especially concerning problem areas that are difficult to quantify – a new article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Catalina Adaptive Mobile Advertising
Mobile advertising from Catalina. Had not seen them in this space before, but admit have not followed them closely. " .. “BuyerVision Mobile represents a huge...
From Writing