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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 October 2012
It’s the Columbus Day holiday in the US. Or as we call it in my family Leif Landed First day. Either way a lot of schools have a holiday today. I’m traveling today...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2012: A Personal Report
Human-computer information retrieval (HCIR) is the study of information retrieval techniques that integrate human intelligence and algorithmic search to help people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peapod's Virtual Store
In PopAI: More on Peapod's Virtual stores, including a good video of it in operation. " ... The campaign stretches all across the U.S., littering 100 subway This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where is Artificial General Intelligence?
We expected Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to follow quickly when we formed an artificial intelligence team and lab in the late 1980's. Surely once we started...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
NSF Funding Opportunities and Effective Proposal Writing Strategies (GHC12)
Even though I'm a Canadian grad student, the Grace Hopper session on National Science Foundation (NSF) opportunities was very relevant to me. As my collaborators...
From My Biased Coin
Allerton Panel
This year was the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (website). Hard to believe it's been around that long. I think my first...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Go Lean, Go Agile: Are We There Yet? (GHC12)
The concept of agile development has always fascinated me, particularly because I haven't had the opportunity yet to work on an agile team. (This despite having...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Research Mind Mapping
I have used IThoughtsHD for some time as a mind mapping tool. The main reason for choosing it was that it was usable as an iPad App and could readily communicate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla's Lab is Saved
An example of unappreciated genius. Nikola Tesla. Wireless and energy transmission pioneer. I have seen the ruins of his lab from afar. I have stayed in a room...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Emergence of Precision Retailing
Tailoring promotions to mobile shopper needs in the store. ReadwriteWeb critically calls it SAP's Creepy New Retail Software Uses Big Data To Make You Buy More...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Problem With Courses
Lots of interesting side comments come up during some curriculum discussions. At a recent meeting of the CS 2013 task force one of the committee members made a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Importance of Federal Funding to Research
Steve Lohr from the New York Times published an article today titled, “The Seeds That Federal Money Can Plant,” which explains the importance of federal funding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney 3D Printing
An example of using 3D printing to create simple displays and sensors. " ... Aside from simple displays, the process can also be used to produce a variety of sensors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata and Tibco Spotfire
This press release recently came up in some research " ... Tibco Spotfire Announces Expanded Partnership with Teradata to Offer Extreme Data Discovery and Analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Education and Trust
Correspondent and frequent consultant to our enterprise Jerry Michalski gives his first talk at TED, in Copenhagen. On education on trust.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Accelerates
In CWorld: Augmented Reality Accelerates. I visited a lab this week that was building novel augmented reality work for local enterprises. More specifics on...
From Putting People First
Making mobile phones work for the poor
In this BBC article, David Edelstein, a leader in the mobile for development space, argues that human networks are the essential ingredient for mobile phones to...
From Putting People First
Understanding the sensing city
Consultant Roger Dennis, who identifies himself as “serendipity architect”, has been writing a series of posts on meetings he had related to the sensing city. Together...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Engraving from the 1870s
Neat book illustration. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle