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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 Computational Complexity
CCC12- post 4 of 4- Misc Info.
CCC 12 post 4 of 4. The business meeting and other observations. Programming committee info: There were 119 submissions of which 18 were junk (more on that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holistic Virtualization
Computerworld special edition on holistic virtualization. Increasingly important for the integration of analytics. Exploring.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Noise and Blank Display Ads
Former colleague Ted McConnell, exec VP at the Advertising Research Foundation, writes about the conundrum of blank display ads getting an impressive number of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biases are Running Rampant
We discovered in the very early days of the Web that the increasing access to more information made it very easy to feed your own biases. Ordinary employeesSteve...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 23
July 24 Briefing: The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is holding a briefing on assistive voting technology for veterans. 9:30 a.m., 188 Russell...
From Schneier on Security
How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism
An antidote to the American cycle of threat, fear, and overspending in response to terrorism is this, about Norway on the first anniversary of its terrorist massacre...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Introducing the CCC to Our New Readers
For those of you who have been regulars of the CCC Blog since the early days (back in late 2008), thanks for continuing to click on to us. For the rest of you —...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Manufacturing is in Amerca
Article quoted in length by MJ Perry. Saying that advances in robotics and artificial intelligence along with remote manufacture through 3D printing will drive...
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Smartphones Have Replaced ...
In Technology Review: What smartphones have replaced. I don't like lists for their own sake but I did notice the mention of a shopping list, which we studied...
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Nielsen and Watermarks
Engadget reports on a new technology to gather information about local viewing activity via set-top boxes. More information and press release at the link. Particularly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
OODA Loop
Nice piece on the history and implementation of John Boyd's OODA Loop.... The OODA Loop describes how to make decisions and act on them using a four-stage model...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Calling for Papers for Spatial Computing Visioning Workshop
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has issued a call for participation for an upcoming visioning workshop on spatial computing. Led by Shashi Shekhar (University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Curation and Shopping in Pinterest
In the NYTimes Mag: A breezy look at what has come to be known as 'visual curation' in systems like Pinterest . Asked by a connection to look at the relevance...
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Macy's and Shopkick
Macy's promotes mobile shopping for coeds using Shopkick. In their blog. Exclusive deals and rewards for simply walking into one of their 800 US locations. An...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metadata and the Stroop Effect
The Stroop effect is a clinical test that measures differences in reaction time when you are shown information that confirms or contradicts your own views, conscious...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Freemium Done?
In GigaOM: Freemium, the model of providing valuable, but limited in some way services free to attract large numbers of 'eyeballs' with the opportunity to up-sell...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
How Good Is Your Translator?
Using fixed points to measure language translators Franz Ochs is a computer scientist whose main research is on machine translation of natural languages. He got...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google+ Again
Just had need to go back and use Google+ again. Had been noticing a number of things written about its demise. Also this article warning it was not quite dead...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sitting
A piece in the WSJ by the Numbers Guy about a recent study regarding how too much sitting could cause an early death. Well done, a classic correlation vs causation...
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