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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
Saving Retail with Focused Apps
A good case study of the use of APIs at Walgreens for photo prints. Simple ways of bringing digital into physical spaces.
From The Eponymous Pickle
TellnGo
Brought back to my attention:TELLNGO is an innovative Consumer & Shopper Marketing Service Agency. We specialize in enhancing Trial, Conversion, Purchases and...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why we make up jobs out of thin air
“We prefer to invent new jobs rather than trying harder and inventing a new system that wouldn’t require everybody to have a job.” (Philippe Beaudoin) In the XXIst...
From Schneier on Security
Chinese Airline Rewards Crew for Resisting Hijackers
Normally, companies instruct their employees not to resist. But Hainan Airlines did the opposite: Two safety officers and the chief purser got cash and property...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Radical Openness
Have been looking at the topic of open innovation lately. How about radical openness? A post by former colleague Donna Sturgess.
From Computational Complexity
CCC 2012: Post 2 of n
CC 2012. I still don't know what n is. I summarize the second day of the conference. Wednesday June 27 Morning Session: A Satisfiable Algorithm and Average Case...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Day Two
Rick Rashid who created and runs Microsoft Research gave the opening keynote for day two. I found it interesting that when they started Microsoft Research they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NCR Pursues Square
In GigaOM:Local manufacturer NCR, inventor of the the modern mechanical cash register, is in pursuit of Square,with what they are calling NCR Silver. Lots of groups...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Associative Memories in Vivo
Some neural fingerprints of memory are decoded. A first tiny step towards experimentally verifiable results like neuromarketing, neural control and memory interfaces...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Analytics, Past and Future
I have been a long time practitioner of business analytics, the use of quantitative methods to improve business processes. Starting at the Defense Department, where...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Tournament
FromWharton: A March madness of innovation? I am not sure it works well for innovation, since crowd sourcing the measures to evaluate innovation results are not...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Seeking “Radical Innovation” in Data Analytics
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has joined forces with George Mason University to launch the Innovation House Study, seeking to foster ”radical...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Day One
Oh what a day! I’m at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond WA this week. This is a big event for Microsoft Research with...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An Education Tsunami
Will on-line courses destroy universities? Daphne Koller is a famous researcher who is on the faculty at Stanford University. She started her career as a theorist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Greenplum Analytics Blog
I have seen some interesting things out of Greenplum. They have just announced an analytics blog." ... Datastream, Greenplum’s official blog, delivering analytics...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
No Screen Time Under Two
We've got two computer scientists in our three-person family. Would it surprise you that our daughter, currently seven months old, is not allowed to watch anyThis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unlocking the Predictive Power of the Web
A piece in Singularity Hub on the temporal search in the forward looking search engine Recordedfuture, which I have now followed for some time. It now has a new...
From Schneier on Security
Remote Scanning Technology
I don't know if this is real or fantasy: Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body,remote...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benefits of Being Out of Touch
As PC use declines, we still expect to be in touch. Our devices call us to attention. We share the devices with personal communications and the difference blurs...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM