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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
Wal-Mart Shelf Winners
The winners of the Wal-Mart crowd sourced product selection contest have been announced. Bottled water, eyeglass repair and food storage were the category winners...
From Wild WebMink
Open Source Enables Innovation
Without it, Ubuntu for Android would probably never have happened. My article for InfoWorld this week includes a video demonstration of it in action, and reflects...
From Schneier on Security
Facial Recognition of Avatars
I suppose this sort of thing might be useful someday. In Second Life, avatars are easily identified by their username, meaning police can just ask San Francisco...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Contests Can Benefit Both Students and Teachers
CSTA Board member Shirley Miranda with her students Namrata Das and Noa Glaser. Recently I attended NCWIT's Aspirations in Computing Southern California Awards...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics is not that Complex
In Forbes: I agree, it is not rocket science. It is, in its best form, as simple as possible. Best if originally sketched out on the back of an envelope. Or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alan Turing Bio
An interview with the biographer of Alan Turing. A pioneer of computer science, artificial intelligence, codebreaking and the modeling of biological systems....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Targeting Men in Retail
Retailers and manufacturers react to increasing percentage of men shopping. Nielsen stats and the establishment of 'Man Aisles'.
From Wild WebMink
Going to OSCON
My proposal has been accepted for OSCON in Portland this July, so I’m planning on attending once again – I’ve been to most of them since 2000 when Sun created the...
From Putting People First
Experientia at EPIC Europe meeting
Experientia partner in charge of user research, Michele Visciola, will be one of the speakers at the EPIC Europe one-day meeting at the Elisava Design School in...
From Computational Complexity
Microsoft saves the Yahoo NY Researchers
I started working with David Pennock on prediction markets back when we both were at the NEC Research Institute in New Jersey a decade ago. After a major reorganization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality on Tablets
A dated article that came up recently, how the augmented reality (AR) company Metaio is looking at the use of AR on tablets. See their site for interesting recent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Myths of Predictive Analytics
With brief registration, a reasonable look at the topic. I would prefer first a better definition of the topic as well. All analytics aims to be predictive,"...
From Putting People First
How companies like Amazon use big data to make you love them
Businesses now sit on data goldmines, but very few leverage the data to improve customer service. Ziba’s creative director Sean Madden suggests three ways forward...
From Putting People First
Social TV and the second screen
Social TV is a major disruption in the rapidly changing television industry. In the free report “Social TV and the second screen“, Stowe Boyd, acclaimed futurist...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Waterman Awardees to Present to National Science Board Today
Scott Aaronson
From Schneier on Security
Criminal Intent Prescreening and the Base Rate Fallacy
I've often written about the base rate fallacy and how it makes tests for rare events -- like airplane terrorists -- useless because the false positives vastlyThis...
From Apophenia
Microsoft Research opens New York City lab
I am giddy with pleasure to share Jennifer Chayes’ announcement that Microsoft Research is opening a new lab in New York City that will be filled with computational...
From The Eponymous Pickle