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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
3D Copying - For Sculpture and more
The example here is in art, but I can see this happening much more broadly. Consider too, its potential integration with remote manufacturing. " ... using a free...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Center Store Sales
A topic we spent time simulating and examining in laboratory settings. A new look at the factors determining shopper behavior. How can re-design and better shopper...
From Wild WebMink
Can the DPL Work?
What is patents could be de-weaponized? That’s the goal of the new Defensive Patent License, released this week by law professor (and former EFF lawyer) Jason Schultz...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Why The Hartmanis-Stearns Conjecture Is Still Open
A missed? or forgotten? connection from 1976 Richard Brent is an illustrious Australian mathematician and computer scientist. He is known for Brent’s Theorem, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Cloud Interdependenices Cause Meltdowns?
A piece of research that suggests that over leveraged cloud services could cause service meltdowns. he suggest that these interdependencies are still little understood...
From Schneier on Security
Rare Rational Comment on al Qaeda's Capabilities
From "CNN national security analyst" Peter Bergen: Few Americans harbor irrational fears about being killed by a lightning bolt. Abu Yahya al-Libi's death on Monday...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Webcasting Turing Centenary Celebration Today, Saturday
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is holding its A.M. Turing Centenary Celebration in San Francisco, CA, today and Saturday — marking the 100th anniversary...
From Putting People First
Participatory design in action at Experientia
As a people-centred design company, Experientia
From Putting People First
Book: Connected Health
Connected Health: How mobile phones, cloud, and big data will reinvent healthcare by Jody Ranck, DrPH GigaOm Books, June 2012 170 pages [Amazon Kindle edition]...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Dashboards
Good overview about the process. Simple focused and uncluttered. " ... It
From The Eponymous Pickle
Live Online Tomorrow: Turing Celebration
If you can't attend ACM's Turing Centenary Celebration, you can still experience the thrill of rubbing elbows with ACM Turing Award winners
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boom for Online Workers
MJ Perry reports. Increasingly, suppliers of remote online expertise are gaining acceptance. Expect this to continue as the Cloud increases its resources.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Research for Food Labeling
Fairly obvious. But worth reviewing for understanding how shoppers interact with labeling. Shoppers also interact with labels differently according to the store...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dad's Influencing Shopping More
Dad's increase their influence on shopping, according to recent study. " ... with 52% reporting being the household's primary grocery shopper, according to the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OMB, OSTP Specify Priorities for FY 2014
Around this time every year, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) typically issue a joint guidance...
From Schneier on Security
Cheating in Online Classes
Interesting article: In the case of that student, the professor in the course had tried to prevent cheating by using a testing system that pulled questions at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotfire Adds Hadoop and iPad Support
In a further nod to the sexiness of big data and mobile tablets, Tibco's Spotfire analytics and visualization tool has added a number of new capabilities. Spotfire...
From Computational Complexity
Do 50-1 longshots in the Kentucky Derby ever come in?
(I delayed posting this until after The Belmont Stakes since I wanted to see if there would be a Triple Crown winner.Alas, I'll have another was scratched. From...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Live Webcast: Launching the US Ignite Broadband Initiative
As we described in this space yesterday, this morning at an event at the White House,
From Schneier on Security