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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
Digital Disruption
In Mashable, thoughts about digital disruption. yes we know this already, but it deserves repeating:" ... No matter what industry you are in, you are their target...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Humbolt Squid Mystery Solved
Humbolt Squid off the coast of Mexico are spawning younger and smaller than usual. El Nino is to blame. The mystery was solved by a class of biology students....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
33 Days Later, the DARPA Shredder Challenge is Solved
Last Friday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the end of its
From The Eponymous Pickle
General Mills Portal for Open Innovation
A good example of a CPG company looking for new ideas. Open innovation at work: " ... General Mills launched G-WIN Digital, an avenue for consumers to give the...
From Wild WebMink
Abusing Open Source Trust
Selling downloaders to the highest bidder with the cloud equivalent of adware is an abuse of the trust of the open source communities creating the software. Read...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping Carts Tracking Every Move
A piece by Martin Lindstrom on the dynamic activation of shopping carts to track the movement of shoppers. The idea is not new, we utilized the basic idea as...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Kudos to the New RCMP Commissioner
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, our federal police force, recently had its 23rd commissioner formally installed. There have been problems with the previousRCMP...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Subliminal Sound Ads on Your Phone
In Engadget: Ads to be triggered on you phone based on subliminal sound at a given location. This is a little like augmented reality, which can be triggered by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Technology Driven World
In Forbes: How to Be an Optimist in a Pessimistic Time: A Techonomy Manifesto .. The conference mentioned is now over, but the thoughts are interesting: ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tricks of Holiday Marketing
Martin Lindstrom is interviewed in Bloomberg on the complexity of holiday retail marketing. " ... In an interview with Bloomberg.com
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Names Its 2011 Fellows
ACM is out with its 2011 Fellows, 46 of its members
From Computational Complexity
A Great Time to be a Computer Scientist
Ask your friends if they'll be driving an electric car in ten years. The answer: No, cars will be driving us. Today is the 105th anniversary of the birth of computing...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Can Coding Really Change the World?
Is there any question that technology-based innovations like PCs, the world-wide web, social media and smart phones have fundamentally changed the way we work,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM to Acquire DemandTec: Delivers Analytics via the Cloud
I see in a press release that IBM has agreed to acquire DemandTec. Our enterprise retail innovation center was an early evaluator of DemandTec, which brought...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Defense of Gamification
In Gigaom: " ... Gamifications can have a bad rap, admits Gabe Zichermann, CEO of Gamification.Co. He said people think it means turning everything into Angry...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IARPA Seeking Machine Learning Breakthroughs
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is out with a request for information (RFI) this month, seeking input on “a possible future IARPA investment...
From Apophenia
Opportunities not to miss
Over the last six weeks, I’ve posted various opportunities for students, academics, and other scholars that I’m co-directing/hosting, many of which have deadlines...
From Schneier on Security