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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
Teach Robots Lateral Thinking
From MIT News: An area we examined. How do you teach a help mate robot ways to get around their physical limitations? A floor sweeping robot can trade timewith...
From Wild WebMink
Not Risk But Trust
Amanda Palmer has stumbled on trust as the answer to the music industry's problems.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Cloud Intrusion
An example of a cloud security issue with the popular package Evernote, which I have used for some time. Good example which led me to refresh my understandinghashing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting a Value on Data
This question came to mind during a meeting this week. Here a good overview. To me it is first how the data can be used today to improve decision process.......
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson in College
In GigaOM: more steps towards a revolution in AI? How do you learn and collaborate like humans? Our own journey into AI used similar methods, but the large"...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cryptography Is Dead?
Comments from a keynote panel Whitfield “Whit” Diffie, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Dan Boneh are all famous cryptographers. They just gave a keynote panel at this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Search Works
From Google, a mostly visual description of how search works. From algorithms to answers. No algorithm details, and all of this would be known by anyone who has...
From Wild WebMink
Artificial Scarcity
When there’s no legitimate way to make money, dinosaur publishers resort to digital vandalism to create scarcity artificially. Technical measures that prevent reading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stats on Interest in Statistics
The Numbers Guy in the WSJ comments on the increasing interest in statistics as a field of study. Since statistics is the underlying foundation of analytics, it...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
House Creates Congressional App Challenge
The U.S. House of Representatives created a national academic competition this week for students to showcase their talents in science, technology, engineering,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising and the Internet of things
In the HBR: An internet of things that links to deliverable advertising. Kevin Ashton, mentioned in the article, worked with us in the innovation center.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Another Squid Cartoon.
Another. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Wild WebMink
Certification And Innovation
While there is probably a place for ”granular” certifications, especially if their origin is the external accreditation of real-world recognition inside a community...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently announced the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) program solicitation. “The goal of the Smart and Connected Health...
From Apophenia
Is Facebook Destroying the American College Experience?
Sitting with a group of graduating high school seniors last summer, the conversation turned to college roommates. Although headed off to different schools, they...
From Putting People First
The user research behind HTC One’s Sense 5 interface
Drew Bamford, Director of User Experience at HTC, explains Sense 5.0 and why the company’s Android UX needed redefining. “HTC radically overhauled the look and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strengthening Brand America
Ed Burghard curates and posts on economic development and place branding. Always some interesting ideas than can be applied to the local brand.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Boosts Analytics Revenue Goals
Not unexpected based on my reading. The intersection of Big Data and analytics requires a consulting base, which IBM clearly has. Recent acquisitions also point...
From The Eponymous Pickle