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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
Charmin Site and US Currency
A popular legal blog takes a look at the 'Charmin Corporate Site', and makes comments about the symbolism between basic Charmin functionality and currency. Is this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Singularity Rising
Moore's law and Artificial Intelligence. What does it mean to be 'smart' for machines? A new book: Singularity Rising. describes the problem. What will the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walgreen's Mobile Strategies
An overview of what Walgreen is doing and experimenting with. I have followed them for some time and their implementation is very good. Includes mention of Foursquare...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Government regulations… as software
Socialists accuse me of being a libertarian. Libertarians accuse me of being a socialist. I am actually a pragmatist: I believe that we should set things up to...
From Wild WebMink
An Open Source Take-Over
By poaching the key developer from VMware, Red Hat has made a chess move derived from extensive experience of open source. It’s gained control over future development...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Generating Revenue from MOOCS
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) made available by organizations like Coursera, an online education company that offers free college courses, are gaining popularity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blaming the Dewey Decimal Innovation Problem
A good piece in Fast Company about how innovation can go wrong based on the infrastructure and culture that it exists in. We used this example of classification...
From Schneier on Security
Experimental Results: Liars and Outliers Trust Offer
Last August, I offered to sell Liars and Outliers for $11 in exchange for a book review. This was much less than the $30 list price; less even than the $16 Amazon...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
STEM Modeling Challenge–Florida Virtual School
I saw this announcement on the Advanced Placement Computer Science teacher forums and thought it worth sharing. Let’s Raise the Bar for STEM Education! Whether...
From Putting People First
How research misses the human behind the demographic
Deutsch’s Douglas Van Praet discusses how focus-group feedback, and the whole notion of the consumer, are misguided and how research should focus on understanding...
From Putting People First
Intel’s ‘Women and the Web’ report
From the press release: Intel Corporation released a groundbreaking report on “Women and the Web,” unveiling concrete data on the enormous Internet gender gap in...
From Wild WebMink
WYWOA
(While You Were Out, Again) Today I have a roundup of the digital rights stories that caught my eye over the break, on ComputerWorldUK.
From CERIAS Blog
On Student Projects, Phoenix, and Improving Your IT Operations
Back in about 1990 at Purdue University, I was approached by an eager undergrad who had recently come to Purdue. A mutual acquaintance (hi, Rob!) had recommended...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hotspex
Recently met with Shane Skillen of Toronto based Hotspex. Also a link to some of their work in 2012.Hotspex delivers provocative marketing research insights that...
From Wild WebMink
See You At FOSDEM?
I’ll once again be attending Europe’s most important open source developer event, FOSDEM, I’m honoured to have had two talks accepted this year. Both are on Saturday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing at the NRF
I see that Sands Research has a number of neuromarketing based activities and information pointers for the upcoming NRF meeting on January 13- 15 NYC. More ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney's RFID Wristbands
Disney is planning to use opt-in RFID wristbands to replace ticketing and other behavioral tracking interactions in its parks. Reported on here in Computerworld...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manufacturing the Future
Excellent report from McKinsey on the future of manufacturing. While many think of manufacturing as an old line industry, it is still a key method to get things...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Lab to Remove Chinese Devices Due to Security Risks
According to an article in CRN Magazine, the Los Alamos National Laboratory has decided to remove networking devices created by a Chinese manufacturer because of...
From Schneier on Security