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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
Case for Abolishing Patents
In the Atlantic: No doubt they are a mess. Though many have invested so much in them that it will be a very tough task. I have seen both truly phenomenal and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Bundles Analytic Database
SAP has bundled the IQ database with its analytics offerings, seeking to establish an easier to use and less risky adoption process for companies. " ... SAP announced...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Why We Lose Sleep Some Nights
Is the end of the world uncomfortably close? src Derek de Solla Price created scientometrics, which is “the science of measuring and analyzing science.” You can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tears of Steel
The Blender Foundation's all open source short movie: Tears of Steel is now out and available. On their site and on YouTube. Is this the future of film?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loss of Web History
I did several projects to look at corporate history in the enterprise as it addressed computing technology, and found the Internet Archive a useful resource. Yet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Symmetrical Faces
Are apparently more influential. I recall that there have been studies to use this idea in advertising. Reference? The site has some striking examples. A commenter...
From Putting People First
Book: Doing Design Ethnography
Doing Design Ethnography By Andrew Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield, Peter Tolmie Springer Publishers – Human-Computer Interaction Series March 2012, 212 pages (Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Analytics News
A newsletter that looks interesting on text analytics methods. Sign up for their briefing here. " ... We have compiled a 3000 word briefing on realizing true...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Shows Roadmap
Correspondent Michael Curran of Micro Industries, a company we used extensively for in-store displays, posts about Intel's Developer's forum, which I do not normally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gifts
In Adage: Facebook trolls for deeper participant data using the popular birthday notification feature.
From Wild WebMink
Still Nutty After All These Years
Madness @ The Roundhouse, a set on Flickr. I was lucky enough to win tickets for an iTunes Festival show again this year. I was even luckier that it was my wife’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automatic Mapping
Via MIT News: A prototype wearable sensor system that can automatically map a building interior. Seen as useful for emergency responders. " ... In experiments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Don't Rely Entirely on Big Data
CIO Article: An interesting article, though I don't quite agree with the premise. Unless your problem is very simply constructed you cannot have it depend strictly...
From Wild WebMink
But What About Patents?
News of government support for open source in the US and EU this week is great. But at the same time, software patents are stifling innovation and the same administrations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Obsession of Mobile
Mobile makes people more productive. It is clear that it has become an obsession to be connected for many people. Productive, but to a breaking point?
From Geeking with Greg
Code Monster and teaching programming to kids
I recently launched Code Monster from Crunchzilla. It helps parents teach a little programming to their kids. A lot of parents want their kids to learn a little...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Artificial Intelligence for Developing Technology for Older Adults – AI for Gerontechnology Symposium
The following is a contribution to this blog from Parisa Rashidi, Assistant Professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. In this blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Full Scale Virtual Research Continued
I made another working visit to John Milby's Full Scale Virtual Research laboratory today and remain very impressed by their abilities and direction. He has taken...
From Putting People First
How cultural differences affect mobile use
CNN reports on mobile phone culture and how use differs starkly across cultures. Whereas the article is rather superficial, the “open mic” videos from New York...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science